Crimson Desert Still Among Top 20 Steam Best-Sellers With 50K Players 2 Months After Launch

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Crimson Desert Has Shown Commendable Staying Power!

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  • Crimson Desert remains quite popular for a single-player title, attracting over 50,000 players on Steam each day.
  • The game is also among the top 20 best-sellers on the platform.
  • Pearl Abyss is still updating the RPG after launching 8 major updates, promising even more fixes for those still playing the game.

Ahead of its launch, many had lofty expectations of Crimson Desert. Although the game did not hit the ground running, Pearl Abyss was quick to address fan feedback and patch the game as rapidly as possible.

Following launch, multiple patches improved the title at an incredible pace, and today, Crimson Desert is considered a formidable RPG experience by the millions of gamers who bought it. Two months after its release, the title also continues to show an impressive run on Steam.

Why it matters: Most single-player titles quickly lose player interest, making Crimson Desert an outlier. This staying power is made even more impressive since titles like Forza Horizon 6 and Pragmata have come out since.

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Crimson Desert Player Count on Steam 2 Months After Launch

At the time of writing, Crimson Desert shows over 53,000 active in-game players on Steam. This is particularly impressive for a single-player title, with the RPG showing staying power that many multiplayer games fail to achieve.

Elsewhere, Crimson Desert is also currently among the top 20 best-selling games on Steam when ignoring free-to-play titles like CS2 and Apex Legends. This means that audience interest in the RPG has yet to completely dwindle two months after it first launched.

Unlike other single-player titles, Pearl Abyss latest release is almost endless in its nature. In fact, many criticized the game as being too big at first, but it seems this style of open-world has grown on players and has become the very thing that keeps them coming back.

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Crimson Desert Is A Huge Triumph For Pearl Abyss

As mentioned earlier, Pearl Abyss has been incredibly swift at patching the game. Pearl Abyss has updated the game each week since its launch, leading to 8 massive updates so far.

In fact, the game’s latest Twitter post mentions that patch version 1.08.00 was released just 4 days ago. More updates are also on the way, promising more changes, including the much-requested controller input remapping feature.

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