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Crimson Desert is a questionable RPG but an excellent medieval life sim, and I fed Kliff bugs for 5 hours to prove it

Now Playing | The only role I'm playing is village busybody

GamesRadar

How to solve the Trembling Woods puzzle in Crimson Desert

Spin the wheel, align the patterns, and solve this challenge.

PC Gamer

Is there romance in Crimson Desert? Everything you need to know

Everything you need to know about romance options in Crimson Desert.

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Here are 9 incredibly specific and petty beefs I have with Crimson Desert

Let me have a pet goat, dammit.

PC Gamer

Latest Crimson Desert update rolls out extra polish and new tutorial quest

The day one Crimson Desert update is here and has a few much-needed tweaks.

TechRadar

Crimson Desert's bafflingly convoluted controls are already frustrating players: 'That’s basic f*cking video game functionality'

Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot.

PC Gamer

How to read the Lost Letter in Crimson Desert

What to do with the stranger's mysterious letter.

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The best early skills in Crimson Desert

Teach Kliff some new moves.

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How to use Copper Pouches in Crimson Desert

It's free money.

PC Gamer

Spend your early levels in Crimson Desert getting more health and stamina instead of fun new skills that you can get for free

Use your starting skill points wisely.

PC Gamer

All Crimson Desert Twitch Drops and how to get them

Free food, equipment, and even horse armour.

PC Gamer

Crimson Desert Review – Vast, violent, and impossible to put down

Adventure awaits you in Pywel.

Destructoid

Crimson Desert review

A game that tries it all, even if it's not always a success.

PC Gamer

Crimson Desert review: "Take time to leave the beaten path and you'll find a game that's far better as a sandbox than as a story"

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Tom’s Guide

Crimson Desert is an overwhelming RPG experience — but it’s undeniably ambitious

Crimson Desert is an ambitious single-player open-world action-adventure packed with visceral combat, insane vertical exploration, and tons of game mechanics.

The Independent UK

What to Stream: BTS, 'The Immortal Man,' a new 'Peaky Blinders' movie, Luke Combs and Crimson Desert

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PC Gamer

After 6 hours, Crimson Desert is one of the most overwhelming, chaotic, madcap videogames I've ever played—and I'm hungry for more

Pearl Abyss is engaging in a biblical act of design hubris, and it's somehow working out.

GamesRadar

I spent 6 hours in Crimson Desert and became a bounty-hunting banker with a dragon, but it still feels like I've only scratched the surface of this RPG's open world

Hands-on | From The Witcher 3 to The Legend of Zelda, Crimson Desert's influences are plain – and the result is a sandbox-style sprawl

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Windows Central

Crimson Desert receives a 15-minute showcase of its story and open-world gameplay — revealing additional playable characters and rideable mechs

Crimson Desert's release on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC is fast approaching. So, Pearl Abyss is driving up hype for the game by releasing gameplay overviews, starting with coverage of its main plot and open-world gameplay.

PC Gamer

Crimson Desert secures a March release date as the ambitious Frankenstein's monster of open world fantasy games goes gold

Better start practicing your swordfighting. And pro wrestling. And dragon riding. And mech piloting.

GamesRadar

Crimson Desert's hack and slash boss bottles "play a crucial role in shaping the game’s intensity", but there's more to the open world adventure – like fishing, cooking, and dragon-riding

Big in 2026 | From MMORPG roots to an upcoming solo adventure, developer Pearl Abyss walks us through its journey

PC Gamer

Crimson Desert's release date trailer bravely makes it through 1 minute of serious fantasy exposition before showing you its cool clockwork dragon and mech, and I love it for that

Torn straight out of teenage-me's epic fantasies.

PC Gamer

In Crimson Desert, the true boss battle is wrangling its controls to unlock the cool combat within

Crimson Desert continues to look strong, but unwieldy.

TechRadar

If you can grapple with Crimson Desert's needlessly complex controls, there's a unique action game here with stunning visuals and deep combat

Crimson Desert stunned me with its visual flair, but its complex control scheme goes way overboard.

GamesRadar

I spent an hour fighting 4 of Crimson Desert's bosses and learned to embrace the hack-and-slash, but it wasn't enough to kill its giant enemy crab

Preview | Crimson Desert probably isn't the action-RPG you're expecting

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