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Pearl Abyss says Crimson Desert has sold 4 million copies, and Alinea Analytics believes the game has already generated roughly $200 million, with PlayStation 5 sales making up nearly half of that total.
Beloth is one of Crimson Desert’s nastier optional bosses, with heavy ice damage, periodic freezing and a few attacks that can end the fight in one hit. The upside is that the right prep turns the encounter into a much more manageable duel, and the reward is the full Shadow Armor set, including Beloth’s ice-breathing helmet.
Dinga Bakaba argues that Crimson Desert’s slow early hours are not a problem, but the reason its systems and world feel so rewarding once they finally click.
A Reddit-discovered Crimson Desert movement trick is letting players cover far more ground while gliding, and the community is split only on whether it is genius design or the sort of thing Pearl Abyss will eventually patch into the floor.
Crimson Desert packs in more than 75 bosses across its main quests, faction missions, and hidden encounters. Here is every boss currently tracked in the Knowledge tab, grouped by region and tied to the quest or location where you can find them.
Pearl Abyss’s open-world RPG now has the higher fan score on Metacritic, even as critics remain more divided. The numbers are tidy, at least until awards season starts making a mess of them.
Pearl Abyss has rolled out a Steam-only emergency patch for Crimson Desert after players reported new visual issues following update 1.01.00. The hotfix improves DLSS and Ray Reconstruction performance, but the studio says more fixes are still on the way.
The White Bear is one of Crimson Desert’s more aggressive mounts, which is fitting given that you have to defeat it before you can ride it. Here’s where to find it, what it drops, and how to turn those drops into a mount.
Pearl Abyss has rolled out Crimson Desert patch 1.01.00 on Steam, with PS5 and other platforms to follow, adding five new summonable mounts, shorter travel and revival loading times, and a long list of combat, UI, and quality-of-life improvements.
Pearl Abyss has rolled out a new Crimson Desert update that replaces AI-generated assets left in the game by accident, while also improving loading times, controls, movement speed, and adding five new summonable mounts.
Pearl Abyss, the studio behind Crimson Desert, is working on DokeV, an urban creature-collecting game that looks like a mashup of colorful monsters and open-world city chaos. Crimson Desert's early reception has improved since launch, and DokeV may arrive around 2027 based on past studio comments.
Crimson Desert started rough, but player sentiment is improving. Metacritic user scores have steadily risen, Steam reviews have warmed up, and the game has sold millions despite early criticism and a volatile stock reaction.