Crimson Desert
Huge dark-fantasy open world with heavy melee combat and spectacle bosses. Complex controls and some PC crashes.
74My pick scoreWorth a look
Price
One-time purchase. Price fetched 11 Oct 2026.
CrackWatcher and DRM
Cracked after 138 days. Scene group: voices38. Checked on CrackWatcher 11 Oct 2026.
Monetization
From player reviews.
Rank
20 of 55
Tier: Worth a look (65-84)
- Camera3rd person
- Released2026
- ModelBuy once
- Genreaction rpg
- CollectionsCrackWatcher AAA
The numbers
Fetched
- Steam, all time
- 86%Very Positive · 63,001 reviewsSource: Steam store page, fetched 11 Oct 2026
- Steam, last 30 days
- 77%Mostly Positive · 2,719 reviewsSource: Steam store page, fetched 11 Oct 2026
- Metacritic critics
- 78approx., from search
- OpenCritic
- 79Strong · approx.
- CrackWatcher
- CrackedCracked after 138 days.Checked on CrackWatcher 11 Oct 2026. CrackWatcher page
Steam percentages are the share of positive English reviews on the store page. The Steam word, such as Mostly Positive, is Steam's own. Numbers marked approx. come from web search, not from the Steam page.
Approximate from 2026 review roundups.
Critic sources: opencritic.com.
What players say
Ambitious, gorgeous open-world action RPG with heavy combat and some PC crashes.
Players like
- Gorgeous open world with weighty, physical melee combat
- Spectacular large-scale boss fights and siege set pieces
- Rich exploration, armor designs, and physics details
- Single-player focus with no pay-to-win shop
Players dislike
- Complex, overloaded controls take hours to learn
- Awkward dialogue and uneven story pacing
- Loading crashes and CPU spikes reported on some PCs
- Less build freedom than a dedicated loot ARPG
