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Crimson Desert Enhanced

Pearl Abyss · 2026-03-19

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 19, 2026 (PlayStation 5), Mar 19, 2026 (Mac), Mar 19, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 19, 2026 (Xbox Series X|S)

Crimson Desert is an open-world action-adventure set on the continent of Pywel. Join Kliff on his journey to rebuild the Greymane faction and to save the land from a looming threat. From vast wilderness and cities to ruins and the mysterious Abyss, forge your path through battles and discovery.

Crimson Desert is an Action, Adventure game released in 2026, priced at $69.99, with a review sentiment of Very Positive (84% of 166384 reviews).

36,159
playing now
84%
positive of 169k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
536
twitch viewers (latest)
86/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
86/100
IGDB user rating (108 ratings)
79/100
opencritic · strong · 74% recommend
83h
to beat · rushed 70h · completionist 738h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$69.99
steam price (US)

36,159 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Crimson Desert is a 2026 action-adventure game developed and published by Pearl Abyss. Originally planned as a prequel to Black Desert Online, the game evolved into a standalone title during development. It was released for macOS, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on March 19, 2026, with a Nintendo Switch 2 version planned for release in early 2027. It received generally positive reviews and sold three million copies within the first week of release.

Trailer

Crimson Desert Enhanced trailer thumbnail

Crimson Desert Enhanced Official Announcment Trailer

≈365,707 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Thriving
  • · 36,159 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 4,529 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~566/week).
  • · Review velocity down 76% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (50,676 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 3.4M–7.6M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 169,310 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $59.19 at AllYouPlay (2026-03-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $100.00 · on sale 36 of 37 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
38k38k20262026Week of 2026-03-19: 37,591 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 13,085 negativeWeek of 2026-03-26: 18,397 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 2,505 negativeWeek of 2026-04-02: 8,856 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 1,713 negativeWeek of 2026-04-09: 6,161 positiveWeek of 2026-04-09: 1,116 negativeWeek of 2026-04-16: 3,326 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 819 negativeWeek of 2026-04-23: 3,503 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 607 negativeWeek of 2026-04-30: 2,386 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 450 negativeWeek of 2026-05-07: 1,742 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 438 negativeWeek of 2026-05-14: 1,251 positiveWeek of 2026-05-14: 310 negativeWeek of 2026-05-21: 1,322 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 256 negativeWeek of 2026-05-28: 941 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 235 negativeWeek of 2026-06-04: 887 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 211 negativeWeek of 2026-06-11: 637 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 168 negativeWeek of 2026-06-18: 622 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 148 negativeWeek of 2026-06-25: 431 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 136 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 512 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 142 negativeWeek of 2026-07-09: 337 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 114 negativeWeek of 2026-07-16: 328 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 102 negativeWeek of 2026-07-23: 315 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 79 negativeWeek of 2026-07-30: 369 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 89 negativeWeek of 2026-08-06: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 8 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

36k6.3k2026-08-06 16:00 — 10,781 players2026-08-06 22:00 — 8,693 players2026-08-07 04:00 — 6,937 players2026-08-07 10:00 — 7,827 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 11,158 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 9,358 players2026-08-08 04:00 — 8,830 players2026-08-08 10:00 — 10,345 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 14,344 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 11,141 players2026-08-09 04:00 — 10,095 players2026-08-09 10:00 — 12,098 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 15,487 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 11,453 players2026-08-10 04:00 — 7,484 players2026-08-10 10:00 — 7,709 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 11,154 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 8,863 players2026-08-11 04:00 — 6,960 players2026-08-11 10:00 — 7,528 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 10,956 players2026-08-11 22:00 — 8,350 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 13,511 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 12,931 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 21,560 players2026-08-27 21:00 — 16,084 players2026-08-28 03:00 — 13,691 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 14,457 players2026-08-28 15:00 — 22,567 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 18,118 players2026-08-29 03:00 — 17,939 players2026-08-29 09:00 — 21,452 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 32,008 players2026-08-29 21:00 — 23,871 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 22,171 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 13,468 players2026-08-30 15:00 — 36,159 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#29#722026-08-062026-08-302026-08-06 — #292026-08-07 — #292026-08-08 — #292026-08-09 — #292026-08-10 — #292026-08-11 — #292026-08-12 — #292026-08-27 — #692026-08-28 — #692026-08-29 — #722026-08-30 — #70
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
3693692026-08-072026-08-302026-08-07: 63 new positive2026-08-07: 23 new negative2026-08-08: 65 new positive2026-08-08: 29 new negative2026-08-09: 86 new positive2026-08-09: 33 new negative2026-08-10: 78 new positive2026-08-10: 28 new negative2026-08-11: 50 new positive2026-08-11: 11 new negative2026-08-12: 52 new positive2026-08-12: 17 new negative2026-08-14: 81 new positive2026-08-14: 21 new negative2026-08-15: 58 new positive2026-08-15: 23 new negative2026-08-16: 129 new positive2026-08-16: 36 new negative2026-08-17: 128 new positive2026-08-17: 31 new negative2026-08-18: 86 new positive2026-08-18: 11 new negative2026-08-19: 44 new positive2026-08-19: 11 new negative2026-08-20: 53 new positive2026-08-20: 10 new negative2026-08-21: 48 new positive2026-08-21: 9 new negative2026-08-22: 53 new positive2026-08-22: 18 new negative2026-08-23: 79 new positive2026-08-23: 19 new negative2026-08-24: 75 new positive2026-08-24: 27 new negative2026-08-25: 59 new positive2026-08-25: 25 new negative2026-08-26: 369 new positive2026-08-26: 43 new negative2026-08-27: 288 new positive2026-08-27: 55 new negative2026-08-28: 212 new positive2026-08-28: 41 new negative2026-08-29: 305 new positive2026-08-29: 71 new negative2026-08-30: 247 new positive2026-08-30: 92 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$100.00$54.992025-09-252026-08-132025-09-25 — best price $69.992025-11-05 — best price $54.992025-11-06 — best price $59.492025-11-07 — best price $69.992026-01-23 — best price $69.992026-03-04 — best price $81.362026-03-05 — best price $81.002026-03-06 — best price $80.952026-03-07 — best price $81.242026-03-08 — best price $80.812026-03-09 — best price $80.552026-03-10 — best price $81.252026-03-11 — best price $59.192026-03-12 — best price $80.582026-03-13 — best price $79.912026-03-15 — best price $79.952026-03-16 — best price $80.022026-03-17 — best price $69.992026-03-18 — best price $80.172026-03-19 — best price $80.112026-03-20 — best price $80.752026-03-22 — best price $80.752026-03-23 — best price $69.992026-03-24 — best price $80.972026-03-25 — best price $80.892026-03-26 — best price $80.682026-03-27 — best price $80.542026-04-22 — best price $69.992026-05-19 — best price $69.992026-05-26 — best price $62.992026-06-10 — best price $59.992026-06-11 — best price $66.992026-06-18 — best price $62.992026-06-26 — best price $62.992026-07-09 — best price $59.492026-08-12 — best price $60.002026-08-13 — best price $100.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2.9k1.0k2026-05-29 — 2,362 pageviews2026-06-01 — 2,182 pageviews2026-06-04 — 1,955 pageviews2026-06-07 — 2,115 pageviews2026-06-10 — 1,744 pageviews2026-06-13 — 2,076 pageviews2026-06-16 — 1,621 pageviews2026-06-19 — 1,623 pageviews2026-06-22 — 1,702 pageviews2026-06-25 — 1,463 pageviews2026-06-28 — 1,607 pageviews2026-07-01 — 1,409 pageviews2026-07-04 — 1,499 pageviews2026-07-07 — 1,445 pageviews2026-07-10 — 1,305 pageviews2026-07-13 — 1,282 pageviews2026-07-16 — 1,202 pageviews2026-07-19 — 1,402 pageviews2026-07-22 — 1,455 pageviews2026-07-25 — 1,093 pageviews2026-07-28 — 1,146 pageviews2026-07-31 — 1,001 pageviews2026-08-03 — 1,196 pageviews2026-08-06 — 1,574 pageviews2026-08-09 — 1,578 pageviews2026-08-12 — 1,709 pageviews2026-08-15 — 1,402 pageviews2026-08-18 — 1,270 pageviews2026-08-21 — 1,173 pageviews2026-08-24 — 1,242 pageviews2026-08-26 — 2,851 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

10k1302026-08-26 19:15 — 705 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 674 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 630 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 168 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 555 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 2,237 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 520 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 465 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 505 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 666 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 594 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 169 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 130 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 564 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 512 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 411 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 3,376 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 681 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 599 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 480 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 250 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 256 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 222 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 458 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 514 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 424 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 443 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 277 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 230 viewers2026-08-30 12:34 — 8,017 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 536 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

34
achievements tracked
77.4%
earned "Novice Adventurer"
0.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCustom Volume ControlsGamepad RecommendedDualSense Controller SupportSave AnytimeStereo SoundSubtitle OptionsSurround Sound2 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)25,4111%34
PS5 (PlayStation)22,2195%35
Xbox Series, Windows (Xbox)5,4121%34

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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