Crimson Desert
News, coverage and analysis tracking Crimson Desert across the outlets.
Latest coverage
How to get and use Abyss Cells in Crimson Desert
This guide explains how to obtain and utilize Abyss Cells in Crimson Desert. Abyss Cells are rare crafting materials primarily acquired by defeating Abyss foes, which disguise themselves as Bismuth Ores. These cells are crucial for crafting and upgrading Abyss Gears, which provide valuable bonuses to player gear.
This one small mod makes Crimson Desert a must-buy game
This article discusses how a single mod significantly improves the role-playing game Crimson Desert, elevating it to a level of greatness that warrants player attention. The author suggests the mod transforms the initial rough experience into a must-buy title.
How to solve the Duskwood Waterside Ruins Puzzle in Crimson Desert
This guide explains how to solve the Duskwood Waterside Ruins puzzle in Crimson Desert. The puzzle is described as straightforward once the solution is understood.
Crimson Desert: Tips for New Players Exploring Pywel
Crimson Desert offers a wealth of systems and content, but its onboarding can be challenging for new players. This guide provides essential tips for navigating Pywel, including how to clear map fog by ringing bells, the benefits of stealing with a bandit mask, prioritizing core stats like stamina and health, raising animal trust for companions, summoning human allies for combat, and utilizing Palmar Pills for revivals.
Crimson Desert: Tips for New Players Exploring Pywel
Crimson Desert offers a wealth of systems and content that can be overwhelming for new players. This guide provides essential tips for navigating Pywel, including the importance of ringing bells to clear the map's fog of war, using a bandit mask for early loot, prioritizing stamina, health, and spirit stats, raising animal trust for companions, summoning human allies for combat assistance, and utilizing Palmar Pills for revivals.
How to enter a waterfall in Crimson Desert
This guide explains how to enter waterfalls in Crimson Desert to find hidden secrets and treasure chests. Players can pass through waterfalls by performing a stab attack while close to them, often indicated by a pillar in front. While attempting to pass through may cause some damage, it can lead to rewarding discoveries.
All mechanical mounts in Crimson Desert and how to get them
Crimson Desert features three types of mechanical mounts: Scout Automation, Golden Star Mech, and A.T.A.G. The Scout Automation is crafted after finding its blueprint in Marni's Laboratorium Complex. The Golden Star Mech is obtained by defeating a boss in the Delesyia region, and the A.T.A.G can be permanently unlocked through a faction quest in Chapter 11.
With Crimson Desert out, Pearl Abyss is reportedly focusing on open-world Pokemon-like game DokeV
Pearl Abyss is reportedly shifting its core development team to focus on the open-world creature-collecting game DokeV following the release of Crimson Desert. CEO Heo Jin-young estimates DokeV will take another two to three years to complete and polish.
Crimson Desert: All Weapons & Weapon Types, Explained
This guide details all the weapons and weapon types available in the game Crimson Desert. It serves as a comprehensive resource for players looking to understand the combat options within the game.
Crimson Desert’s Week 2 Twitch Drops are live, and here’s how to get them
The second week of Twitch Drops for Crimson Desert is now live, offering players exclusive in-game horse gear. Viewers can earn the Blue Scout Stirrups, Champron, and Saddle by watching participating Twitch streams for a cumulative total of three hours between March 26 and April 1. Rewards can be claimed via the inventory page, with Steam users receiving them automatically in-game.
How to get the Red Needle Katana in Crimson Desert
This guide details how to obtain the Red Needle Katana, a unique weapon in Crimson Desert. The weapon is located on an island east of Delesyia within the Sanctum of Oblation, an endgame area. Players must navigate to a hidden room, light a lantern, and then retrieve the katana from a treasure chest in a previously locked room.
Crimson Desert: All Weapons & Weapon Types, Explained
Crimson Desert on PlayStation 5 is a fantasy open-world adventure with a vast array of systems that create an engrossing experience, despite narrative shortcomings. Pearl Abyss' title offers a unique blend of mechanics that, while sometimes buried in early access cruft, has the potential to be something special.
Out of all of Crimson Desert's baffling design decisions, its playable trio might be the worst offender
The author expresses confusion and disappointment with Crimson Desert's design choice of featuring three playable characters, arguing that their implementation feels like an afterthought. Despite distinct combat styles, the game frequently forces players back to the primary character, Kliff, limiting the utility and progression of the others, Damiane and Oongka. This half-hearted approach to an ensemble cast is seen as a baffling design decision that detracts from the game's potential.
Engagement Ring
Pearl Abyss CEO stated that Crimson Desert has surpassed 5 million sales and the company is considering a port for the upcoming Nintendo Switch successor. The game has achieved significant commercial success since its release.
Crimson Desert boss admits its story needs work, but it can't be fixed now so future updates will only focus on…
Pearl Abyss CEO Heo Jin-young acknowledged that Crimson Desert's narrative needs improvement, but stated that future updates will focus solely on gameplay issues. The open-world RPG has sold over three million copies since its March 19 launch.
You definitely don't need ROG's new audiophile-grade headset, but here's why you want one anyway
The ASUS ROG Kithara is an audiophile-grade gaming headset developed in partnership with Hifiman, featuring 100mm planar magnetic drivers for exceptional sound quality. While it offers a rich listening experience for music and games like Counter-Strike 2 and Crimson Desert, it lacks some standard gaming headset features such as wireless connectivity and easy mic muting, making it more of a branding exercise than a practical consumer product.
A Complete Guide To The Greymane Camp In Crimson Desert
This guide details how to build and maximize the Greymane Camp in Crimson Desert to support player progression. It covers camp expansion, potential challenges, and the benefits of a fully developed encampment for Kliff and his companions.
Pearl Abyss boss admits the studio "could have done a better job" with Crimson Desert's totally underwhelming story
Pearl Abyss CEO Heo Jin-young acknowledged player disappointment with Crimson Desert's story, stating the studio could have done better but prioritized strengthening gameplay. The company is also considering mod support for the game in the future, though no concrete plans are in place.
Crimson Desert devs are looking into bringing the massive open-world game to Switch 2, says Pearl Abyss CEO, which…
Pearl Abyss, the developer of Crimson Desert, is considering a version for the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2. The massive open-world game has achieved significant sales success since its launch, selling three million copies in its first five days.
With Crimson Desert released, devs will shift focus to an adorable creature collector that looks like Pokémon on steroids
Pearl Abyss has shifted its development focus to DokeV, an upcoming creature-collecting open-world action-adventure game, following the release of Crimson Desert. DokeV, first announced seven years ago, features whimsical creatures called Dokebi and a vibrant world, representing a departure from the studio's previous titles like Crimson Desert and Black Desert Online. Full development is now commencing, suggesting the game is likely several years away.