Pearl Abyss‘ Will Powers has revealed throughout a chat with the Gaming Interviews YouTube channel that the open world featured in Crimson Desert is “completely large,” going as far as to disclose it stacks up beneficial towards style titans Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
I don’t assume numbers actually do it justice as a result of, how massive is that by way of scope and scale? However what we will say is that the world’s not less than twice as massive because the open world, the playable space, of Skyrim. It’s bigger than the map of Pink Lifeless Redemption 2.
The continent of Pywel is totally large, however measurement doesn’t actually matter if there’s nothing to do. Open-world video games are about doing issues, having actions, having distractions. So we wished to create a world that’s not solely large, however can be extremely interactive.
You select the kind of character you wish to play as by way of your development throughout the methods within the sport. After which by way of head canon you’re having this very completely different expertise than different gamers due to the scope and scale of the sport. You’ll be distracted by one thing, you’ll go on this quest line, you’ll have an expertise that’ll be radically completely different than another person, despite the fact that they’re enjoying the identical sport and the identical canonical storyline that you simply each are going by way of.
Crimson Desert is at the moment in improvement for PS5, PC, and Xbox Sequence X/S, and was initially pitched as a prequel to Black Desert On-line. The sport takes place in a medieval fantasy world often called Pywel, the place gamers observe a hardened mercenary who’s affected by burdens of management and previous reminiscences.
The narrative focuses on Greymanes Kliff, Oongka, Yann, and Naira, throughout a interval the place Pywel is experiencing nice rigidity and battle amongst its individuals. This already fragile interval is disrupted additional by an assault by the Black Bears, a rival faction to the Greymanes, killing lots of its members. Within the aftermath, Kliff and the survivors are scattered, and so it’s as much as him to reunite together with his comrades and rebuild the Greymanes, earlier than confronting the Myurdin, the chief of the Black Bears.
Crimson Desert launches on March 19, 2026. We went hands-on with the sport again in April 2025, so you’ll want to learn our impressions of a number of the Crimson Desert’s bosses right here.
[Source – Gaming Interviews YouTube via IGN]
