- What is Crimson Desert?
Reclaim power and reach beyond in an ambitious new open-world action-adventure.
Crimson Desert is a vast open-world adventure with deep, varied combat, multiple playable characters, numerous quests, NPCs and locations to discover, ancient puzzles to solve and many side activities to engage in.
Take on the role of the Greymane Kliff and embark on a journey across the continent of Pywel 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.
Amid a turmoil gripping the continent and the aftermath of a savage attack on the Greymane group – your family in all but name – set out in search of scattered survivors, reclaim what was lost, and fight for Pywel.
Key features of Crimson Desert
Why you should play Crimson Desert
Crimson Desert invites you to explore the vast continent of Pywel. Travel over land, through woodland, deserts, cities and towns, or take to the skies and leap through ancient constructs in the floating ‘Abyss’.
A vast, seamless world
Split across five regions – Hernand, Pailune, Demeniss, Delesyia and the Crimson Desert – Pywel is a continent teeming with life. Bustling cities, vast wildernesses, ancient ruins and much more await in a land inhabited by multiple factions and their stories.
Traverse on horseback, glide through the skies or pilot your own missile-firing mech as you venture across the lands. Inhabitants across the world will make requests for tasks great and small, from making deliveries to liberating besieged strongholds – each completed request will provide you with resources and rewards that will serve you on your journey.
Crimson Desert In the skies above, the Abyss looms: a mysterious realm of immense power that you must explore on your mission to restore its mystical balance and stop those who would misuse it.
Relentless action and brutal combat
Traverse the land of Pywel from top to bottom, scaling rock faces, mysterious towers or verdant woodland. Vault ravines, divebomb from the open sky, swing from your magical grappling hook, or combine skills to slingshot yourself over castle walls of clifftops.
You’ll unlock more abilities as you explore Pywel and many of these can be used in combat, combining acrobatic movement with a huge range of weapons and skills.
Wield swords, spears, axes, dual blades, bows, muskets and many more, across three playable characters with distinct fighting styles. that favour speed, strength or finesse.
A living breathing world
The five regions of Pywel are full of things to do. Towns are home to local tradespeople, such as tailors and smithies, alongside shopkeepers and ordinary towns folk.
Interact with each as you choose: help out, goof-off, gamble or steal to make your way in the world. Just be mindful of the law, as locals will remember your misdeeds and prison awaits if you’re caught.
Gather resources on the road: fish and mine, harvest and gather for cooking, enhancing your equipment, and more. Grow your newly founded Greymane camp; here you can help out with farming activities for more supplies, brew dyes to customize your outfits or even get a shave and a haircut.
PS5 Features
How innovative PS5 features enhance Crimson Desert
Stunning visuals
Choose between a higher-fidelity ‘Quality’ mode* targeting 30FPS or a more responsive ‘Performance’ mode as you explore Pywel.
*Requires compatible display
Haptic feedback
Feel weapon strikes, the clatter of horses hooves or even the stir of the wind with the DualSense controller’s haptic feedback.
Ray tracing
Experience cutting edge lighting simulation with support for ray tracing features across all PS5 graphics modes.
Adaptive triggers
The DualSense wireless controller’s adaptive triggers heighten gameplay, adding tension to actions like drawing a bow.
Tempest 3D Audio
Experience a more vivid and detailed soundscape – the clash of weapons or the crackle of a fire – with support for Tempest 3D audio*.
*3D Audio via built-in TV speakers or analog/USB stereo headphones.
Support for 120hz displays
Select ‘Balanced’ mode to enjoy high-quality visuals at a more responsive 40FPS target on 120hz displays.
Crimson Desert
■ EXPLORE A WORLD OF DISCOVERY
Welcome to Pywel.
Here you’ll find stretches of natural beauty and wilderness—from green plains and woods to arid deserts and rugged mountains. Between destinations, you will come across landmarks, ancient ruins, hidden treasures, and other points of interest that will draw your curisoity to wander.
Your journey will also inevitably take you skyward to the mysterious realm known as the Abyss, where a mystical imbalance endangering the world must be restored.
The world is yours to explore as you will and there are many paths for you to uncover.
Experience the continent’s stories and tales through quests, encounters, challenges, and battles.
Roam the lands on various mounts from horses to even a dragon and mechs, and scale cliffsides and walls which you can leap from to glide.
■ FORGE YOUR OWN COMBAT
On the unforgiving battlefields of Crimson Desert, there is no single path to victory.
Grow your arsenal of skills, weapons, and equipment—and decide how you want to use them.
Wield weapons like swords, spears, greatswords, axes, dual wields, various ranged weapons, and more, and unleash powerful abilities and elemental enhancements through lethal combinations.
With every strike and move, forge your own way in a world where a split second can decide your fate in fast-paced, visceral battles.
From ruthless warriors to fearsome beasts, there are those in Pywel who will seek your downfall. Encounter a diverse array of challenging enemies and bosses in brutal one-on-one duels, large-scale battle clashes, and quick skirmishes, and prevail against the threats that stand in your way.
■ LIFE IN PYWEL
In Pywel, many of the smaller moments also shape your journey and make up your day-to-day life.
Gather resources, cook, fish, hunt, and partake in the other various activities of Pywel for stat replenishment, making your equipment stronger, and more.
Along the way, enjoy some leisure time by playing minigames with the locals.
And shaping your daily life also extends to customization. Adjust hairstyles, tattoos, outfits, and more using dyes you brew or pick up along your journey
