Lost Ark (video game)

Lost Ark is an online MMO action role-playing game developed by Smilegate RPG, a South Korean video game company. It was revealed in South Korea on November 12, 2014 by Smilegate. On the first day of launch, the number of concurrent users was 250,000, and within the next week, the number of concurrent users exceeded 350,000. The game can be played in environments that support DirectX 9 or higher. The Focus Group Test (FGT) was conducted behind closed doors in August 2015, the first CBT (Closed Beta Test) was held on August 24, 2016, the second CBT was held on September 15, 2017, and the final CBT was held on May 23, 2018, and the open beta test was conducted on November 7, 2018, and the official release was conducted on December 4, 2019.

It was released in Europe, North America and South America on February 11, 2022 by Amazon Games. It achieved the second-highest concurrent player count of all games ever played on Steam with over 1.3 million players. This led to long queues and a new server region for Europe was introduced. Lost Ark cost around US$85 million to develop. The game received generally favorable reviews.