Crimson Desert players seem to not be all that bothered with the main questline, as reportedly just over 20% of players have hit the halfway point of the game.
Crimson Desert is pretty big. That's the vibe I get from the game anyway, where all of the pre-release material was effectively 'we have literally everything in this game by the way, go tame some cats.' Hell, Palworld's communications and publishing head 100%ed the game's achievements after 189 hours, and says he still has 20+ hours of side quests to do. Plus, even in the face of Resident Evil Requiem and Pokemon Pokopia, it's probably the most popular game of 2026 in terms of player reception, but for all the praise showered on its mechanics and the sheer amount of silly stuff you can do in it, I actually don't know anything about the story.
