Overview
- Number of Players
- 1 (Single Player)
- Genre
- Release Date
PlayStation 5
19th Mar 2026
19th Mar 2026
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Reviews
Review Crimson Desert (PS5) - A Generational Open World Buried in Early Access Cruft
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Crimson Desert is a fascinating video game. It's an open world adventure of frankly absurd scope, taking blatant cues from notable examples of the genre, like Red Dead Redemption 2, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and The Witcher 3. But where those three titles have a clear identity right out of the
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Crimson Desert Guides
Guide Crimson Desert: How to Enter Hernand Castle
Where to find clothing to get in Hernand Castle
During an early main quest in Crimson Desert, named Mystical Key, you need to find a way into Hernand Castle. Gaining entry is tied to wearing the correct clothing, and this Crimson Desert guide reveals how to enter Hernand Castle. How Do You Enter Hernand Castle in Crimson Desert?: When you're...
Guide Crimson Desert Release Times: What Time Can You Start Playing?
All the Crimson Desert release times
One of the most anticipated games of 2026, Crimson Desert has built up a lot of excitement thanks largely in part to its ambition, scope, and potential. Its release is now right around the corner, so this Crimson Desert guide is designed to give you all the information you need to learn when you can start...
Crimson Desert News
Private storage gets a huge buff, too
Another meaningful update for Crimson Desert has just dropped, and it features some very welcome improvements. While there's nothing here that we'd deem major, patch 1.02 — which weighs in at around 900MB on PS5 — should still make your life in Pywel more enjoyable. Highlights include a toggle for headgear...
News 'No Mode Is Properly Optimised on Base PS5': Crimson Desert's Console Performance a 'Mixed Bag'
Crimson Desertification
Crimson Desert is an incredibly ambitious video game, and one that deserves praise for its attempts to push open world design to impressive limits. However, as we stressed in our Crimson Desert PS5 review, the title suffers from a range of performance woes on PS5 and PS5 Pro. For many players, these problems won't threaten...
Can't argue with that
Pearl Abyss really has a huge hit on its hands. Despite somewhat mixed reviews and many aspects that have divided opinion, Crimson Desert has now sold 4 million copies. It reaches that impressive milestone in a little under two weeks following its launch on 19th March 2026. As mentioned, Crimson Desert hasn't won over...
News Crimson Desert Dev Keeps Its Promise, Replaces AI Art in Latest Patch
Art attack
Sick of seeing those seriously ugly AI-generated paintings in Crimson Desert? If so, we've got good news: they've been officially replaced. As part of the game's latest major update — which dropped over the weekend — developer Pearl Abyss has stripped the title of AI assets. While the change was mentioned in the full patch notes,...
News Crimson Desert Improves Image Quality on Base PS5 with Simple Upscaling
FSR 3 added to Performance Mode
Crimson Desert was not recommended on the PS5 at launch, largely due to its sub-par Performance Mode which launched without any upscaling at all. But in the game’s latest patch, Pearl Abyss has iterated upon the launch day product, adding in FSR 3 upscaling when the game is running in its 60fps format. While this...
News Major Crimson Desert Patch Out Now on PS5, Makes Countless Gameplay Improvements
Full patch notes released
Crimson Desert patch 1.01.00 is available to download now on PS5, and to say it's packed with improvements would be an understatement. It's honestly hard to pick out highlights from the patch notes because there's just so much stuff. The update includes better load times, better performance, a new 4K graphical toggle on...
Red hot
No matter how you feel about the game, it seems Crimson Desert has been a massive hit. The single-player, open world action adventure, from MMO studio Pearl Abyss, launched last week to a fairly mixed critical reception, but in less than a week, it's achieved more than three million copies sold. That figure comes from a recent update...
Studio said it'd respond quickly
Two major Crimson Desert patches have released in quick succession on the PS5 today, solving critical errors in the open world game. Over the weekend, Korean dev Pearl Abyss promised that it would respond to feedback regarding the release’s “uncomfortable” controls. It also
Full internal audit underway
Crimson Desert dev Pearl Abyss has released a groveling apology after generative AI assets were discovered in the enormous PS5 open world game. In a statement posted to X (or Twitter) moments ago, it explained that it used the technology to help “explore tone and atmosphere” but always intended to replace them with...
News Crimson Desert Dev to Patch PS5 RPG's 'Uncomfortable' Controls
Apologises for launch day issues
There’s a lot to love about PS5 RPG Crimson Desert, but its control scheme is not one of them. It takes cues from the worst of Rockstar’s releases, and is somehow even more cumbersome and complicated than even those. In a message on X (or Twitter), dev Pearl Abyss says it’s been listening to feedback and is...
Previews
Hands On Crimson Desert Runs Well Enough on PS5 Pro, But What About That Intro?
The most baffling opening in gaming
It does not matter how long you've been playing video games for, or how many of them you've finished: Crimson Desert has the ability to make you feel like you're back at the beginning again. The new open worlder is one of the most baffling games we've ever played — from almost every angle. It's a lesson in how...
Preview Crimson Desert Is Real, Complex, and Potentially Great
One hour with the promising PS5 open worlder
After various "too good to be true" showcases during livestreams in the past, we can now officially confirm that Crimson Desert is an actual, real video game. In a 60-minute session on the Gamescom showfloor, we pressed all the buttons on a PS5 controller connected to a PC and things happened on-screen...
About The Game
Crimson Desert is an open-world action-adventure game set in the beautiful yet brutal continent of Pywel. Embark on a journey as the Greymane Kliff and restore what has been lost. Explore uncharted lands, fight against threats that stand in your way, and discover the wonders the world has in store.
A devastating ambush in the deep of night by their sworn enemies the Black Bears leaves members of the Greymanes dead or scattered across the continent. Kliff – having lost his Greymane comrades, his family in all but name – is determined to reunite with the survivors, rebuild the fallen Greymanes, and reclaim what was lost. But on a journey where alliances are forged, dangers abound, and mysterious factions are uncovered, Kliff will come to realize that an unprecedented threat and a destiny greater than he imagined await him.
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Hoping for fall 2023 release. Its very quiet on the news front though.
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