ThreadCrimson Desert’s Charting the Unknown Is Doing Something Most Open-World DLC Never Does
There are people out there with way over 500hrs and even they won't claim to have seen and discovered all.
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Positive
Open-world exploration
- PLAYERS
- 51,697
- counted on this topic
- POSITIVE
- 31,990
- of 44,011 who took a side
- NEGATIVE
- 6,879
- of 44,011 who took a side
- MIXED
- 5,142
- of 44,011 who took a side
- NO SIDE
- 7,686
- of 51,697 counted
Counted from the posts we could read, so not every mention. One person with two accounts counts twice.
Newest first, so not a balanced sample. Each quote is a player’s words; the side beside it is our reading. Highlights mark the words our reading applies to.
ThreadUnexpected, but welcome!
But because I lived the thing, I walked, followed my desires, explored, was surprised and/or amazed by a hidden landscape or cave.
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Positive
ThreadCrimson Desert’s Charting the Unknown Is Doing Something Most Open-World DLC Never Does
I want to, but it just looks so massive and overwhelming for a new player.
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Negative
ThreadCan you make me want to play the game?
…I'm only up to chapter 7 of the main story but the exploration, number of quests(and many of them are so different rather than them all being fetch/kill quests), puzzles, challenges have all been amazing that CD has currently replaced skyrim for me (which is saying something as I own…
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Positive
ThreadCan you make me want to play the game?
I actually feel like if I explore I find something interesting, not sure what I wanna say in terms of things I've found in case spoilers are too much, but I don't actually feel like the sci-fi is too jarring as it's almost magically powered.
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Positive
ThreadCan you make me want to play the game?
The world is massive, you can really explore it non-linearly.
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Positive
ThreadCan you make me want to play the game?
it just looks like too much, I don't see any atmosphere or sense of wonder so I would look forward to explore the world.
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Negative
ThreadOne of the hardest-working dev teams of 2026 🔥 Thank you PEAK ABYSS 🙌
This game feels so good to play and explore.
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Positive
ThreadDid crimson dessert ruin every other game for you?
Crimson Desert isn't good enough (a personal and subjective opinion, obviously) to "ruin" anything for me, but it's the first game I've ever played where exploring and just going around randomly has felt so _epic_.
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Positive
Many features, abilities, and traversal options are locked behind story progression and its skill tree, which means there's only so much meaningful free-roaming you can do before the game starts shovelling you back onto its prescribed path.
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Negative
ThreadDLC SHIPS! I WASN’T CRAZY
I'm at a height and I think hey that place looks cool, I want to go there and the chances are there's something cool there waiting for me.
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Positive
Good looking game but story + music is really generic, the overall game and exploration is just weird and kinda badly done.
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Negative
ThreadControls are way too clunky for some mechanics.
I'll never really understand the areas of the game that seemed to have been designed to be some silly platform obstacle course.
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Negative
ThreadHow did they develop the expansion so fast?
It would have been so much fun to explore the crimson desert, searching for a peculiar item for a quirky NPC.
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Positive
So there I was, riding through the mountains with a bounty target on my horse and another on my back.
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Positive
ThreadDo this one step for some interesting implications
Plus, it sort of frees Demeniss fully for exploration and gives us a pause point from the main quest, as we prepare fully before going to Pailune to reclaim our home.
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Positive
ThreadWorth buying?
It's really great gaming if you have lots of time to wander around and explore a massive, beautifully built world with something new to discover everywhere you go!
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Positive
i played only 9 hours and this is like fresh air open world do what u want to do and no one is stoping u from all kinds of stuff stealing fighting killing helping side quests main quest exploring in this game u never gonna be bored so yeah actually 10/10 everything
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Positive
ThreadWhat an Experience!
I truly enjoyed exploring this world.
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Positive
ThreadDid Crimson Desert Ruin any other game for you like it did for me?
Exploration felt largely unrewarding for that reason too save the occasional interesting thing like finding the Sphinx or having a griffin randomly cut you down in a sky trolley.
Our reading
Negative
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