Black Desert Online (Korean: ????) is a sandbox-oriented fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Korean video game developer Pearl Abyss and originally published for Microsoft Windows in 2014. A mobile version titled Black Desert Mobile was initially released in Asia by early 2019 and worldwide in December 2019. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions known simply as Black Desert were released in 2019. The game is free-to-play in some parts of the world but follows a buy-to-play business model in other editions including the English-language editions.