Greg Miller

Crimson Desert Steam reviews are improving, moving up from mixed to mostly positive on Valve's platform as developer Pearl Abyss releases game-changing updates.

As IGN reported, Crimson Desert launched big on Steam with nearly 250,000 concurrent players, but was met with mixed user reviews.

Much of the early criticism from players revolved around the controls, which some called clunky and unnecessarily complicated.

There were some performance complaints too.

For example, PS5 owners joined forces to work out the cause of blurry visuals, an issue that was also on the PC version.

Today's patch addresses keyboard and mouse control complaints and improved control responsiveness with the promise of more to come.

But it also made a long list of quality of life improvements, including the addition of an actual storage box, nerfs to a lot of the difficulty in-game, and more fast travel points.

And there are some key fixes too, detailed in the patch notes.

This update, which arrives just a few days after Crimson Desert came out, really does change the experience in quality of life terms and should make the game more easygoing overall.

Now, Crimson Desert Steam reviews are mostly positive across both English-only reviews and all reviews.

At the time of this article's publication, 70% of the 37,660 Steam user reviews were positive.

That percentage jumps to 77% for English-language reviews.

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We are currently reviewing various elements based on your gameplay elements, based on your feedback, and we'll roll out further improvements and fixes in subsequent updates, Perlibis said.

We remain committed to improving Crimson Desert and your experience in Pywall.

Thank you once again for your continued support.

Snow, Michael, you of course sidelined by the GDC play during Crimson Desert week.

You were supposed to do a stream and he jumped on the grenade for you.

Have you started Crimson Desert and what has your experience been like?

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