Crimson Desert Praised

Crimson Desert has a high-profile fan: the manager of The Witcher 3.

Both games are single-player phantasy adventures, and portion The Witcher 3 leans much heavy connected story, character, and accepted RPG elements, Pearl Abyss and CD Projekt’s immense unfastened worlds are often compared.

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, the manager of The Witcher 3 and erstwhile Cd Projekt executive, told The Game Business that Crimson Desert, alongside Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, are “different.”

“The occupation successful this manufacture sometimes is that radical opening companies are reasoning [too much] astir however to marque money,” Tomaszkiewicz said. “This is simply a truly acold attack for the games. You cannot make creation similar this.”

Tomaszkiewicz, who near CD Projekt to commencement his ain studio, The Blood of Dawnwalker developer Rebel Wolves, said some Crimson Desert and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 rekindled memories of the nineties, erstwhile “every crippled was immoderate unknown.” The approach, helium said, of “adding immoderate risky stuff” to triple-A RPGs truthful they’re not simply the aforesaid arsenic what has travel before, was the full constituent of mounting up Rebel Wolves.

“I deliberation that this [idea] is increasing these days, due to the fact that erstwhile you look astatine Clair Obscur, oregon Crimson Desert close now, those games are different,” helium said.

“They are not a transcript of different AAA games, but delivering thing rather fresh. And I’m truly gladsome of it due to the fact that I’m starting to consciousness similar I did successful the 1990s erstwhile I played games connected my 286 PC, oregon adjacent connected the Atari wherever each crippled was antithetic game. Every crippled was immoderate unknown. We privation to present a akin acquisition for people.”

Both Crimson Desert and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are large hits, with the erstwhile selling 4 cardinal copies truthful far, and the second selling implicit 5 cardinal and winning astir 2025 Game of the Year awards. Tomaszkiewicz volition beryllium hoping for akin returns from The Blood of Dawnwalker, which is different single-player unfastened satellite phantasy adventure.

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