Crimson Desert is an open-world action-adventure set on the continent of Pywel. Join Kliff on his journey to rebuild the Greymane faction and to save the land from a looming threat. From vast wilderness and cities to ruins and the mysterious Abyss, forge your path through battles and discovery.
“insanely fun and very easy to lose track of time”
How it holds up
−50+5
Gameplay
+0.89
Freedom+3.80· Room to explore, build, and play your own way
“massive open world playground with freedom to explore, climb, jump, ride dragons” (62)
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Story & World
+0.56
Story-1.58· Plot, quests, writing, and the ending
“storyline expected to be mediocre around 6/10” (80)
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Content Volume
+2.71
Volume+4.16· How much there is to play, including endgame, for the price
“120 hours with only 40% content seen, constant new quests and mechanical novelties” (30)
(Pra quem está perguntando como tenho 120 horas, o jogo chegou pra review antecipado aqui, fiz pelo Flow Games, tem review no site e no canal) Crimson Desert não estava no meu radar de hype, mas chegou e me surpreendeu muito mais do que eu poderia imaginar. Em mais de 70 horas, o jogo continuava a me trazer coisas para fazer, quests, novidades mecânicas e novos sistemas. Há anos não me sentia tão convidado a explorar um mundo aberto quando Zelda Breath of the Wild e Red Dead Redemption 2. É absurdo a quantidade de conteúdo, com 120 horas eu ainda não vi nem 40% do que o jogo tem a oferecer. O
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Visuals & Sound
+3.50
Visuals+3.67· Graphics, art style, and animation
“world is beautiful with impressive scope and depth” (88)
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Multiplayer
-0.50
Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.
Community+0.00· Who you play with — how many, and how friendly
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Pricing & Fairness
-1.68
Balance-2.87· Whether classes, weapons, and builds are evenly matched
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Tech & Support
+1.95
Developer support+2.68· Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players
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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.
Steam review activity
% positive over time
since launch, by week · major update
Mar 19, 2026Sep 17, 2026
Reviews
per day · 4,426 reviews, peak 307/day
Aug 21Sep 18
per week · 8,748 reviews, peak 1,384/week
Jun 18, 2026Sep 10, 2026
per week · 117,661 reviews, peak 50,676/week
Mar 19, 2026Sep 10, 2026
per week · 117,661 reviews, peak 50,676/week
Mar 19, 2026Sep 10, 2026
Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by week. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.
Review languages
Languages of the 408 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.
English23%
Chinese14%
Russian10%
Portuguese9%
Spanish8%
Korean8%
Other28%
🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.
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