Crimson Desert is out now on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Mac

Pearl Abyss has launched Crimson Desert worldwide. The open-world action game went live on March 19 at 3:00 p.m. PDT, and it’s available on Steam, the Epic Games Store, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Mac.

The Steam version is priced at $69.99, according to the Steam page. Pearl Abyss also says the game is fully offline, with no cross-save support between platforms. The game has “Mixed” reviews as of this post and hit a 24 hour peak of 239,045 on Steam, which is impressive for a Pearl Abyss’s first singleplayer full price game.

Crimson Desert has had a long and pretty unusual road to release. It was first announced back in 2019 as an MMO follow-up of sorts to Black Desert, but over time shifted away from that and ended up as a single-player game. What players are getting now is an open-world action-adventure built around melee combat, ranged weapons, exploration, climbing, and gliding.

Pearl Abyss said ahead of launch that the game had passed 3 million wishlists, with a large share of that interest coming from Steam. Separate tracking from SteamDB also had it sitting near the top of the platform’s most-wishlisted games before release, though that doesn’t necessarily translate directly into sales.

Early critical reception looks mixed to positive. The game’s early Metacritic average was 78, and the outlet says that result coincided with a sharp drop in Pearl Abyss’ stock price.