Crimson Desert Gets 15-Minute Video Showing Off Open World and New Gameplay

With Crimson Desert conscionable a fistful of weeks from release, developer Pearl Abyss has released a 15-minute video showing everything from the communicative to the unfastened world, alongside caller gameplay.

This video shows main quality Kliff and the continent of Pywel, which promises to beryllium a seamless unfastened world. Expect “sprawling wilderness, bustling cities, past ruins, and divers regions, each acceptable against a backdrop of escalating struggle and supernatural danger,” Pearl Abyss said.

Kliff is simply a warrior of the Greymanes, a faction from the bluish portion of Pailune. The communicative begins successful the aftermath of a bid being shattered, and Kliff indispensable reunite the Greymanes and reclaim their homeland. You extremity up discovering that the full continent is involved.

The menace comes from the Abyss, a mysterious realm that’s sending fragments crashing into Pywel. Some privation to exploit these fragments. You’re trying to reconstruct equilibrium to the Abyss and halt those who are exploiting it.

Crimson Desert’s immense unfastened satellite has been a taxable of statement recently. Pywel is divided into 5 chiseled regions: Hernand; Pailune; Demeniss; Delesyia; and the Crimson Desert itself. The main quest revolves astir Kliff’s journey, but you’re escaped to research the satellite successful immoderate order, taking faction-driven quests, large-scale battles, fortress sieges and smaller, character-focused missions.

Pearl Abyss confirmed that arsenic the communicative progresses, 2 further playable characters go available, each with unsocial combat styles, skills and weapons. Exploration is simply a large portion of the crippled — you question connected horseback, ascent terrain, glide crossed distances, and aboriginal entree precocious traversal options specified arsenic a missile-firing mech and a dragon. Pearl Abyss said the satellite is filled with hidden treasures, past mechanisms, puzzles and points of involvement “designed to reward curiosity and discovery.” As for combat, expect to look force soldiers, sorcerers, beasts and machines.

Earlier this month, Pearl Abyss called Crimson Desert’s unfastened satellite “absolutely massive,” bigger adjacent than that of Bethesda’s Skyrim and Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2.

Speaking connected the Gaming Interviews YouTube channel, Pearl Abyss’ Will Powers said that describing the size of Crimson Desert’s satellite successful presumption of numbers doesn’t bash it justice, due to the fact that doing truthful fails to seizure the scope and standard of the game. But helium did spell arsenic acold arsenic to comparison it to 2 of the biggest unfastened satellite games around.

"I don't deliberation numbers truly bash it justness because, however large is that successful presumption of scope and scale?” helium said. “But what we tin accidental is that the world's astatine slightest doubly arsenic large arsenic the unfastened world, the playable area, of Skyrim. It's larger than the representation of Red Dead Redemption 2."

Powers went connected to importune that the size of Crimson Desert’s unfastened satellite won’t find its quality. Rather, what you really bash successful it is the cardinal factor.

"The continent of Pywel is perfectly massive, but size doesn't truly substance if there's thing to do,” helium said. “Open-world games are astir doing things, having activities, having distractions. So we wanted to make a satellite that's not lone massive, but is besides incredibly interactive."

Unlike Skyrim and Red Dead Redemption 2, successful Crimson Desert you tin alert astir connected a dragon, truthful contempt the size of its world, you’ll beryllium capable to get astir quickly. And don’t expect RPG elements successful presumption of decision-making and prime and effect arsenic it relates to your character, either. The sheer magnitude of things to bash successful the satellite volition facilitate the role-playing portion of Crimson Desert, which players volition signifier done “head canon.”

“You take the benignant of quality you privation to play arsenic successful presumption of your progression wrong the systems successful the game,” Powers explained. “And past done caput canon you’re having this precise antithetic acquisition than different players due to the fact that of the scope and standard of the game. You’ll beryllium distracted by something, you’ll spell connected this quest line, you’ll person an acquisition that’ll beryllium radically antithetic than idiosyncratic else, adjacent though they’re playing the aforesaid crippled and the aforesaid canonical storyline that you some are going through.”

Crimson Desert has gone gold, locking successful its planetary merchandise day of March 19, 2026. That’s crossed PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and Mac.

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