Crimson Desert launches, hits 239,045 peak concurrent players on Steam

Crimson Desert has officially launched on PC and consoles, nearly six years after it was first revealed. Within 24 hours of release, the open-world action RPG peaked at 239,045 concurrent players on Steam, after spending six weeks in Steam's top 100 global sellers and rising to the number one spot just before launch. Critical reception has been mixed, and its Steam user rating sits at Mixed based on 8,728 reviews, with complaints focused on clunky controls and too many competing systems.