
2026 is a new year that brings with it new opportunities. One such opportunity will soon be the ability to play Crimson Desert, which itself promises a quiver full of experiences to let fly from your longbow of senses (or, er, something like that). Whether you want to fight a dragon, fly on a dragon, ride across open plains, fight a towering boss, or just roleplay as somebody called Kliff with a 'k', Crimson Desert has you covered.
Set in the world of the wildly popular MMORPG Black Desert, but offering an entirely separate and self-contained adventure, Crimson Desert is a single-player open-world action game. You step into Kliff's sweaty yet heroic boots shortly before he and the other Greymanes – his fellows in arms, and found family – suffer a brutal ambush by their sworn enemies the Black Bears. With most dead and the survivors scattered, Kliff sets off to reunite what remains of the Greymanes and exact his revenge.