Crimson Desert Enhanced — News

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Crimson Desert Enhanced: Charting the Unknown DLC — Trainer +71 Guide

Crimson Desert Enhanced and its Charting the Unknown DLC launched this week — instantly breaking into the Steam Top 15. The open-world action-RPG by Pearl Abyss (Black Desert…

5 days ago| News | Comments 8

Crimson Desert Enhanced +71: Charting the Unknown, ships, dive — trainer download 2026

The Charting the Unknown DLC is out: ocean, ships, diving, Garden of Trials, housing. The existing Crimson Desert Enhanced trainer now lists those options. Solo / offline.

23 days ago| News | Comments 1

ByJunter stopped his co-op mod and put the code on GitHub

Modder ByJunter stopped his co-op mod for Crimson Desert and wrote that another author is already making a more advanced version. There are no dates and no details of the new…

27 days ago| News | Comments 1

Libby Park: critics did not have time to leave the story

Libby Park, head of Pearl Abyss Europe, told The Game Business that critics scored Crimson Desert below players because they had less time to step away from the main story into…

28 days ago| News | Comments 1

In the Charting the Unknown teaser a ginger cat swims beside Kliff

In a new teaser for Crimson Desert Enhanced: Charting the Unknown, a ginger cat swims beside Kliff. The clip shows the pet in the water with the hero. The studio does not say…

29 days ago| News | Comments 1

Alinea Analytics: Crimson Desert revenue is 426.7 million dollars

In an Alinea Analytics newsletter published alongside a look at EA Sports FC 27, Crimson Desert’s revenue since the March release is given as 426.7 million dollars. In the same…

31 days ago| News | Comments 1

No-Context2224 showed an early co-op session over Steam

Modder No-Context2224 ran a first co-op test of Crimson Desert with a friend over Steam and posted the clip on the game’s subreddit. There is no official mode: earlier this year…

36 days ago| News | Comments 1

Charting the Unknown was moved to 29 October

Pearl Abyss moved Crimson Desert Enhanced: Charting the Unknown by two weeks, to 29 October. The extra time, the studio says, is for a more polished and stable playthrough. The…

38 days ago| News | Comments 1

The studio: BlackSpace drops in the heaviest scenes

In a MeinMMO interview at gamescom 2026, Kim Jin-hwan and Yoon Jin-ho said the BlackSpace Engine drops in Crimson Desert’s heaviest scenes: many characters, effects, lights,…

43 days ago| News | Comments 1

Patch 2.03.02 brings back Grimnir and the Haven of the Heavens core

Update 2.03.02 is already on Steam for PC. The Steam version on Mac is still installing. There is no new content. In the quest The Mysterious Cauldron, Grimnir appears in the…

44 days ago| News | Comments 1

The World Builder mod offers more than 48,000 objects

The third-party World Builder mod opens more than 48,000 ready prefabs in Crimson Desert: walls, ruins, furniture, items, mechanisms and environment. They can be placed, moved,…

Sep 21, 2026| News | Comments 1

Patch 2.03.01 brings back the Deuces minigame at Tommaso

Patch 2.03.01 is already applied on Steam for PC. On Steam for Mac the install is still running. The update is stated for every named platform and adds no new content. The Steam…

Sep 21, 2026| News | Comments 1

Kim and Yoon: BlackSpace exists so they decide when a patch ships

Lead engineer Jin-hwan Kim and graphics lead Jin-ho Yoon explained why Crimson Desert is on BlackSpace rather than Unreal Engine 5. They consider their own engine a better fit for…

Sep 20, 2026| News | Comments 1

Crimson Desert preview: mount stamina is fine, Weather skip is grey

On the preview build, Mount stamina is alive. Weather skip is grey. Do not poke it. I am waiting for the release page. Offline for now.

Sep 18, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 2.03.00 puts a Transformer model in DLSS Ray Reconstruction

Update 2.03.00 on Steam for PC and Mac, PlayStation, Xbox and the Epic Games Store updates NVIDIA Streamline to 2.14.1: DLSS Ray Reconstruction gets the latest Transformer model.…

Sep 14, 2026| News | Comments 0

The DLC preorder is closed in some regions, and the studio gave no country list

Charting the Unknown is unavailable in some regions, and preorders there are being closed. Pearl Abyss did not name the countries in the published message. An unconfirmed account…

Sep 14, 2026| News | Comments 0

Kim Dae-il was nominated for the Korea Content Awards

Pearl Abyss chairman Kim Dae-il was nominated for the Korea Content Awards 2026 for contribution to the game industry. The reason is the company’s international results, including…

Sep 11, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 2.02.00 closes the crash with DLSS frame generation

Update 2.02.00 for PC fixes quests, controls, the interface, graphics and text. A lantern on an NPC shows that NPC’s items again. The flag at the Wolf Hill camp turns on housing…

Sep 04, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 2.01.00 makes silver donations ten times more valuable

Patch 2.01.00 is already on Steam for PC and Mac, on PlayStation, Xbox and the Epic Games Store. In the Greymane camp, the houses themselves appear, not only the furniture. The…

Sep 03, 2026| News | Comments 0

The Charting the Unknown preorder on Steam is 1,534 rubles

The Crimson Desert: Charting the Unknown page is on Steam. The preorder is 1,534 rubles, and the release is 15 October 2026. Kliff sails his own ship, explores islands and goes…

Sep 03, 2026| News | Comments 0

Charting the Unknown ships on 15 October: a ship, a castle and romance

At a PlayStation State of Play, Pearl Abyss presented the expansion Charting the Unknown. The release is 15 October 2026. The story starts immediately after the ending of the base…

Sep 01, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 2.00.02 fixes the Karin quarry crane and the GTX 1060 white screen

Update 2.00.02 is labeled 1.000.493 on consoles. Lip sync in some cutscenes was improved. Control of the small crane at the Karin quarry no longer breaks. The hero is no longer…

Sep 01, 2026| News | Comments 0

A 20-minute demo streams into the browser from a Twitch page

Will Powers announced a 20-minute Crimson Desert demo that runs in the browser without an install. On a computer, he says, startup takes about two seconds. The session is capped…

Aug 29, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 2.00.01 fixes frame drops and the Steam launch on Mac

Update 2.00.01 is already on Steam, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation and Xbox. It comes to the Mac App Store later. The note. Text when Arabic is selected was corrected. Lip sync…

Aug 27, 2026| News | Comments 0

Powers: after 2.0 the patches get rarer, effort goes to the DLC

In an IGN interview after Opening Night Live, Will Powers said the number 2.0 was not chosen by accident: players are getting the most complete experience of the base Crimson…

Aug 27, 2026| News | Comments 0

Powers: awards come if players think the game is great

In an IGN clip from 26 August 2026 at Gamescom, Will Powers said awards are a consequence if players think the game is great, not the starting goal. Make the game first, and the…

Aug 27, 2026| News TrainerHub

Crimson Desert Enhanced 2.00.00 trainer — +28: horse, followers, teleport, contribution | TrainerHub v3.1.0

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Aug 26, 2026| News | Comments 0

Players say the Enhanced opening feels like a different game

After Crimson Desert Enhanced shipped, players write that the opening and Kliff himself were rewritten the most. The patch notes add scenes, dialogue, memory fragments and lore,…

Aug 26, 2026| News TrainerHub

Crimson Desert trainer v2.0.0 — Infinite HP, Stamina, Spirit, One Hit search | TrainerHub v3.1.0

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Aug 25, 2026| News | Comments 0

Enhanced 2.0 adds Abyss seals and five voice tracks for free

At Opening Night Live in Cologne, Pearl Abyss showed Crimson Desert Enhanced. Owners of the original do not pay separately: it is a free update. Scenes and dialogue were added so…

Aug 25, 2026| News | Comments 0

Geuntae An: if a mountain is on the horizon, you can walk to it

At Gamescom Dev, Pearl Abyss environment artist Geuntae An said the team considered the player’s trust in Pywel’s horizon more valuable than almost anything they made. If an…

Aug 25, 2026| News | Comments 0

The first discount is 20% from 25 August through 9 September

On 25 August 2026 Pearl Abyss started the first Crimson Desert sale since release: 20 percent off on the stated platforms. The offer is temporary and runs in every digital store…

Aug 25, 2026| News TrainerHub

Crimson Desert: TrainerHub +12 v1.4.0 — 2026-08-25 v3.1.0

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Aug 19, 2026| News | Comments 0

Players read seaweed and the southern island as a hint of a sea DLC

Pearl Abyss has not revealed what the Crimson Desert expansion contains. A week earlier the DLC release was named for 2026. Players reading the latest patches guess at a sea…

Aug 16, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.18 fixes the image on the GTX 1060, still a minimum card

Patch 1.18.00 names the GeForce GTX 1060 on its own: on it and other lower cards, the image was fixed when FSR Frame Generation and XeSS Frame Generation were on. NVIDIA released…

Aug 16, 2026| News | Comments 0

Hotfix 1.18.01 brings back old furniture and the NPC menu

Hotfix 1.18.01 is already on PC in Steam and the Epic Games Store, and on PlayStation and Xbox. The Mac App Store comes later. The note. Talking to an NPC with the lantern lit no…

Aug 15, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.18.00 splits quest knowledge into eight categories

Patch 1.18.00 on every platform adds a quest-knowledge system in eight categories, from main quests to constellations. Points for missions already cleared will be granted…

Aug 14, 2026| News | Comments 0

Five months on, 9.7% have finished the story on Steam

About five months after release, 9.7 percent of players have finished Crimson Desert’s storyline on Steam, by the note’s count. On Xbox and PlayStation the picture is similar:…

Aug 12, 2026| News | Comments 0

The Switch 2 port is aimed at the first half of 2027

Pearl Abyss says a basic version of Crimson Desert on Nintendo Switch 2 is already playable, and the team is working toward a release in the first half of 2027. An exact date…

Aug 12, 2026| News | Comments 0

The “brief overview” video: more than 120 pets and 70 outfits

Pearl Abyss released a video, “A brief overview of what’s new,” covering Crimson Desert’s patches since release. The description lists more than 20 new content elements and…

Aug 12, 2026| News | Comments 0

Personnel costs rose 94%, quarterly sales by 2.11 million

In the second-quarter report, Pearl Abyss’s payroll costs rose 94 percent. One reason is bonuses for employees who worked on Crimson Desert. There are fewer temporary people hired…

Aug 12, 2026| News TrainerHub

Crimson Desert: TrainerHub +12 v1.3.0 — 2026-08-12 v3.1.0

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Aug 11, 2026| News | Comments 0

The quarter: 192.6 billion won in revenue, DLC by the end of 2026

For the second quarter of 2026, Pearl Abyss’s consolidated revenue was 192.6 billion won and operating profit was 67.6 billion. Crimson Desert brought in 136.1 billion won in the…

Aug 07, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.17.00 fixes the Desperate Rescue trial and the routes

Update 1.17.00 is already on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and the Epic Games Store. The Mac App Store is still in development. The patch is about progress, combat, the interface and…

Aug 05, 2026| News TrainerHub

Crimson Desert: TrainerHub +12 v1.2.0 — 2026-08-05 v3.1.0

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Aug 03, 2026| News | Comments 0

Hotfix 1.16.02 removes the black load screen and RX 9070 artifacts

Hotfix 1.16.02 is already on PC in Steam and the Epic Games Store, and on PS5 and Xbox Series. The Mac version comes later. The loading screen no longer hangs or turns black when…

Aug 03, 2026| News | Comments 0

China Joy 2026: Crimson Desert is the best international game

At the China Game Innovation Awards 2026 during China Joy, Crimson Desert received the title Best International Game. The award was organized by the China Audiovisual and Digital…

Aug 01, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.16.00 adds 133 trading posts and FSR 4.1

Patch 1.16.00 on every platform rewrites trade: 133 new trading posts, seven wagon workshops in the major cities of Pywel and 28 new goods. Prices depend on how saturated the…

Jul 29, 2026| News TrainerHub

Crimson Desert: TrainerHub +12 v1.1.0 — 2026-07-29 v3.1.0

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Jul 25, 2026| News TrainerHub

Crimson Desert: TrainerHub +12 — 2026-07-25 v3.1.0

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Jul 24, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.15.00 fixes invisible bosses and cross-saves

Patch 1.15.00 on every platform removes the invisibility of some bosses, errors in crops ripening and being harvested, and a reset of the gear lock on Ungka and Damiana. In the…

Jul 17, 2026| News | Comments 0

BlackSpace took the Develop:Star Award ahead of Decima and id Tech 8

At the Develop:Star Awards 2026, during the Develop conference in the United Kingdom, the BlackSpace Engine won the award for best technical innovation. Decima from Guerrilla,…

Jul 16, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.14.00 turns on cross-save for PC and consoles

Update 1.14.00 adds cross-saves between PlayStation, Xbox, Steam and the Epic Games Store. The platform the progress moves to needs its own copy of the game. The Steam version on…

Jul 10, 2026| News | Comments 0

Co-op is being studied: the game was once conceived as an MMO

At a meeting with shareholders, Heo Jin-young said Pearl Abyss is studying co-op for Crimson Desert. He considers the interest in playing together understandable: the project was…

Jul 08, 2026| News | Comments 0

On Switch 2 the game already runs basic gameplay, with no date

Heo Jin-young said Pearl Abyss wants to show Crimson Desert on as many platforms as possible and is studying Nintendo Switch 2. Right now the game on that console is at a level…

Jul 07, 2026| News | Comments 0

Gamescom 2026: a booth with Samsung and two engine talks

Pearl Abyss is bringing Crimson Desert to Gamescom 2026 with Samsung. From 26 to 30 August the booth is in hall 09.1: the game on Samsung monitors, including the 32-inch Odyssey…

Jul 04, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.13.00 lets Ungka and Damiana into the Abyss

Update 1.13.00 on every platform opens the Abyss to Ungka and Damiana. Some disguise costumes and most weapons, including side weapons, can now be dyed. Iron Eagle and Phoenix can…

Jul 02, 2026| News | Comments 0

The soundtrack is on the Game Music Award longlist until 15 August

Original Soundtrack Crimson Desert, Vol. 1 is on the longlist for the Game Music Award at the World Soundtrack Awards 2026. The winner among the longlist is chosen by an open vote…

Jun 27, 2026| News | Comments 0

Powers: the patches answer what to give the community

Will Powers said the weekly free Crimson Desert patches are not a way to sell more copies on top of the 6 million already sold, but an answer to what to give the community. The…

Jun 24, 2026| News | Comments 0

Hotfix 1.12.02 removes RX 5000 crashes at Full HD

Hotfix 1.12.02 fixes frequent crashes at 1080p on AMD Radeon RX 5000 cards, a photo-mode failure after HDR is turned off, and stretches of ocean that were wrongly treated as…

Jun 22, 2026| News | Comments 0

The Better Trees mod sharpens the bark of every tree

Modder KhainOne released the Better Trees HD pack for Crimson Desert. It redraws the bark of every tree: the textures are sharper and more detailed, and the original art style is…

Jun 20, 2026| News | Comments 0

Hotfix 1.12.01 brings back skunks and outdoor furniture

Hotfix 1.12.01 closes traces of patch 1.12.00. Skunks no longer vanish when placed in camp. Regions on the way to the Sanctuary of Faith no longer hang in the air. Light on glass…

Jun 19, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.12.00 takes decoration outside the house walls

Update 1.12.00 on every platform lets decorative objects be placed not only in the house but on the grounds. A workbench and a loom were added for furniture and decoration. There…

Jun 16, 2026| News | Comments 0

Powers: Damiana’s and Ungka’s backstories are still only being weighed

Will Powers said the Crimson Desert updates from June through September are meant to give Damiana and Ungka more depth: extra backstory and a clearer reason they are in a tale…

Jun 13, 2026| News | Comments 0

Powers at Summer Game Fest: the DLC will be a different scale

At Summer Game Fest 2026, Will Powers told IGN that the Crimson Desert expansion will be “something completely different” in scale, scope or size. Everything added since launch,…

Jun 12, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.11.00 raises the pet registry to 100

Patch 1.11.00 raises the number of pets that can be registered to 100 through new trials. No more than 50 can be summoned at camp at once, even if there are more beasts. Merchants…

Jun 12, 2026| News | Comments 0

The Beyond the Abyss contest: 10 trips to Korea

Pearl Abyss opened the Beyond the Abyss: Community Challenge. The clip has to be real Crimson Desert gameplay: exploration, combat, customization, Abysses or peaceful activities.…

Jun 11, 2026| News | Comments 0

Sales passed 6 million, a million more since 15 April

Pearl Abyss reported that worldwide sales of Crimson Desert have passed 6 million copies. In the thanks, the studio addresses every Greymane who entered Pywel. On 15 April the…

Jun 10, 2026| News | Comments 0

Free patches will continue for as long as players want them

Will Powers, Pearl Abyss’s director of PR and marketing, said free Crimson Desert updates will ship for as long as players want them. He compares the model to Black Desert Online:…

Jun 06, 2026| News | Comments 0

Hotfix 1.10.01 closes crashes at Abyss Nexuses

Hotfix 1.10.01 fixes a crash that sometimes happened while teleporting through Abyss Nexuses or in combat, and a rare crash while hatching eggs next to the Wyvern Cradle. Small…

Jun 05, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.10.00 adds pinball and a Kuku chick as a mount

Version 1.10.00 is out on PC and will come later to PS5, Xbox and macOS. It adds the Pinball and Ball Spin minigames, and wyvern cubs and a Kuku bird chick can be used as special…

Jun 03, 2026| News | Comments 0

Josh Sawyer backed revising the story after release

Josh Sawyer, who led Fallout: New Vegas, backed Pearl Abyss’s decision to revise Crimson Desert’s story after launch. He does not call it ideal, but he thinks it is better than…

Jun 02, 2026| News | Comments 0

In the same letter the studio confirmed the DLC is already in progress

In the letter on plans from June through September, Pearl Abyss separately confirmed that a Crimson Desert DLC is in development. Updates to Pywel, the authors say, will not stop…

Jun 02, 2026| News | Comments 0

A June–September letter: story, blockades and cross-save

Pearl Abyss published a Crimson Desert plan from June through September 2026. The studio writes that it went through the campaign feedback and is revising the logic of key scenes…

May 29, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.09.00 adds almost 30 pets and gamepad buttons

Update 1.09.00 lets players rebind controller buttons, adds almost 30 new pets and extra skills for Ungka and Damiana. Some of the small animals have their own interaction…

May 26, 2026| News | Comments 0

Two months on, the Steam peak holds at 50–60 thousand

Two months after the March release, the note holds Crimson Desert’s Steam peak at 50 to 60 thousand. That is enough to stay in the global top 20 of sales charts. Eight large…

May 22, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.08.00 builds ponds and adds a wyvern cub

Patch 1.08.00 adds ponds on Wolf Hill and in the Pailun Barracks. Fish from the inventory are released into the water and breed at a rate that depends on the species. A legendary…

May 19, 2026| News | Comments 0

The VAXIStaa mod rewrites cloak, fur and beard physics

Modder VAXIStaa released Simulation Physics for Crimson Desert. The first version changes the fur physics of every horse, cloaks and their reaction to wind, and adds physics to…

May 17, 2026| News | Comments 0

Almost two months on, 6.7% have finished the main line

Almost two months after release, 6.7 percent of players have finished Crimson Desert’s main storyline, by the note’s count. Most are still in the starting region of Hernand:…

May 16, 2026| News | Comments 0

Alec Newman: games used to not count as real acting

Alec Newman, who plays the lead in Crimson Desert, says that a few years ago voice work and motion capture in games were treated as secondary among actors. He has been in games…

May 15, 2026| News | Comments 0

Patch 1.07.00 expands rematches and gives Damiana fists

Patch 1.07.00 adds bosses to the rematch system, a set of unarmed skills for Damiana in the Fists branch, and a shared Air Piercing Strike for her and Ungka. Kliff gets a Crushing…

May 14, 2026| News | Comments 0

Steam has more than 150,000 reviews, rated very positive

Crimson Desert has more than 150,000 reviews on Steam, and the overall rating stays “very positive.” The story is still criticized regularly. The tale of the mercenary Kliff and…

May 12, 2026| News | Comments 0

By year-end the studio expects 432–514 million dollars

At the time of the report Crimson Desert had brought in 178.8 million dollars. Pearl Abyss expects post-launch sales by the end of 2026 to land between 432.2 and 514.4 million. In…

May 12, 2026| News | Comments 0

More than 80% of sales were in North America and Europe

According to Pearl Abyss’s financial report, more than 80 percent of Crimson Desert sales were in North America and Europe. The release was 19 March. Sales split almost evenly…

May 12, 2026| News | Comments 0

The studio called the shorts under Damiana’s skirt a clipping error

Pearl Abyss answered the argument about Damiana’s leather armor: the extra coverage under the skirt appeared unintentionally while they were fixing clipping, parts of the model…

May 12, 2026| News | Comments 0

Hotfix 1.06.01 opens the Door of Vengeance Abyss

Hotfix 1.06.01 for the large patch 1.06.00 fixes one error: players could not clear the Door of Vengeance Abyss. There are no other items on the list. The fix is already on Steam…

May 12, 2026| News | Comments 0

Quarterly revenue quadrupled, to 220 million dollars

In Pearl Abyss’s report for the first quarter of 2026, revenue rose fourfold against the same quarter of 2025 and reached 220 million dollars. Operating profit was 142 million, up…