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 in opposition to 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 large is that when it comes to scope and scale? However what we are able to say is that the world’s no less than twice as large 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 completely large, however dimension 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 need to play as when it comes to your development throughout the methods within the sport. After which by means 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 taking part in the identical sport and the identical canonical storyline that you just each are going by means of.
Crimson Desert is at the moment in growth for PS5, PC, and Xbox Collection X/S, and was initially pitched as a prequel to Black Desert On-line. The sport takes place in a medieval fantasy world generally known as Pywel, the place gamers observe a hardened mercenary who’s tormented by burdens of management and previous recollections.
The narrative focuses on Greymanes Kliff, Oongka, Yann, and Naira, throughout a interval the place Pywel is experiencing nice rigidity and battle amongst its folks. This already fragile interval is disrupted additional by an assault by the Black Bears, a rival faction to the Greymanes, killing a lot 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 remember to learn our impressions of a number of the Crimson Desert’s bosses right here.
[Source – Gaming Interviews YouTube via IGN]
