It seems like we've been waiting forever for Crimson Desert, the expansive open-world game from Black Desert Online developer Pearl Abyss. The ambitious single-player game has been notable while in development for its apparent breadth of content, but the potential Game of the Year competitor may not be quite as long as some are expecting.
Crimson Desert is expected to contain roughly 50 to 80 hours of content, depending on how much you decide to engage with its optional activities. 80 hours is nothing to sneeze at, but The Legend of Zelda and Red Dead Redemption 2 have been specifically named as inspiration, and those games quite easily exceed 100 hours. The information actually comes from a ResetEra post from user Neha in 2024, recently dug up by Insider Gaming. The post is a translation of a Korean business blogger's summary of a presentation given by Pearl Abyss.
Pre-release promotion of Crimson Desert has been a long affair—it was first revealed in 2020 and suffered an extended delay—and a lot of the focus has been on its expansive world, a continent known as Pywel. Early looks had many assuming Crimson Desert was a full-fledged RPG; Pearl Abyss's Black...
