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Brendan Lowry

As Crimson Desert hits 2 million sales but suffers 'Mixed' reviews, its dev has a message for fans — "We will listen closely ... and work to make improvements quickly"

Crimson Desert gameplay screenshot.

The long-awaited, highly anticipated grand fantasy adventure game Crimson Desert is finally here, and across Xbox, Windows PC, Mac, and PS5, it's rapidly become one of the most-played games right now. On launch day, it managed a peak concurrent player count of 239,045 on Steam, which is very impressive for a single player title, albeit not terribly surprising given the monumental hype behind this one.

However, the game hasn't come without some controversies. Its reviews and Metacritic score ended up being more divisive than most were expecting, and on Steam, Crimson Desert has opened to "Mixed" reviews. Indeed, at the time of writing, only 69% of the title's 6,850 user reviews are positive. I'd say "nice," but, you know...it could certainly be nicer (Windows Central reviewed Crimson Desert, also).

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