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Spend your early levels in Crimson Desert getting more health and stamina instead of fun new skills that you can get for free

Use your starting skill points wisely.

How to steal in Crimson Desert

How to steal in Crimson Desert

It's not just you the option is greyed out for.

How does Contribution work in Crimson Desert?

How does Contribution work in Crimson Desert?

Do good things and get good things in return.

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How to complete Abyss Without Balance in Crimson Desert

Solve the skybridge puzzle and turn the power on.

How to beat Reed Devil in Crimson Desert

The devil's in the details.

All Crimson Desert Twitch Drops and how to get them

Free food, equipment, and even horse armour.

Crimson Desert review: "Take time to leave the beaten path and you'll find a game that's far better as a sandbox than as a story"

Crimson Desert review: "Take time to leave the beaten path and you'll find a game that's far better as a sandbox than as a story"

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Crimson Desert review

Crimson Desert review

A game that tries it all, even if it's not always a success.

Crimson Desert is “too much in the best and worst ways,” and that’s exactly why it’s unforgettable

Crimson Desert is “too much in the best and worst ways,” and that’s exactly why it’s unforgettable

I've never played a single-player game of this scale. A kingdom begging to be lost in.

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Crimson Desert is staking everything on its open world: "I'm more hyped for this game than GTA 6"

Crimson Desert is staking everything on its open world: "I'm more hyped for this game than GTA 6"

Opinion | 2026 is the year of medieval RPGs, and it's all about the adventuring

After whiffing its release date by 5 years, Crimson Desert is putting out oodles of preview stuff as 'We never want to be accused of hiding anything, because we have a lot of ground to make up'

After whiffing its release date by 5 years, Crimson Desert is putting out oodles of preview stuff as 'We never want to be accused of hiding anything, because we have a lot of ground to make up'

It's been a long road.

I spent 6 hours in Crimson Desert and became a bounty-hunting banker with a dragon, but it still feels like I've only scratched the surface of this RPG's open world

I spent 6 hours in Crimson Desert and became a bounty-hunting banker with a dragon, but it still feels like I've only scratched the surface of this RPG's open world

Hands-on | From The Witcher 3 to The Legend of Zelda, Crimson Desert's influences are plain – and the result is a sandbox-style sprawl

Crimson Desert's final gameplay overview shows off small but significant features — these are the fun side quests you can expect

Crimson Desert's final gameplay overview shows off small but significant features — these are the fun side quests you can expect

Pearl Abyss releases the final gameplay overview for Crimson Desert, this time highlighting its more down-to-earth features like developing the Greymanes' base camp, talking with NPCs, mini-games, customizing your character's cosmetic looks, and more.

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Crimson Desert's hack and slash boss bottles "play a crucial role in shaping the game’s intensity", but there's more to the open world adventure – like fishing, cooking, and dragon-riding

Crimson Desert's hack and slash boss bottles "play a crucial role in shaping the game’s intensity", but there's more to the open world adventure – like fishing, cooking, and dragon-riding

Big in 2026 | From MMORPG roots to an upcoming solo adventure, developer Pearl Abyss walks us through its journey

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Crimson Desert's release date trailer bravely makes it through 1 minute of serious fantasy exposition before showing you its cool clockwork dragon and mech, and I love it for that

Torn straight out of teenage-me's epic fantasies.

Crimson Desert is an unrestrained feast of violence, with a toolkit of moves that's like a fusion of every action RPG protagonist of the past decade rolled into one

I've never wanted to lab an action RPG before.

As Black Desert Online celebrates its tenth anniversary, Pearl Abyss reveals the future of its MMO lies thousands of years in the past

"It was like, 'what's the next big adventure?'"

Crimson Desert is what action-RPGs could look like post-Elden Ring and Tears of the Kingdom

Gamescom 2023 | If Crimson Desert is half as exciting as its gameplay trailer then we're in for something special

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Black Desert asks the question: What if we made an MMO expansion and didn't invite any monsters?

Don't worry, though, there are still a bunch of boss fights.

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