After exciting looks at its exploration and combat, Crimson Desert winds things down with its final, comparatively calmer gameplay overview trailer.
This trailer gives players a sneak preview at the game's smaller-scale but just as important features, like building up the Greymane Camp, interactions with towns and people you'll meet on your journey, side activities, cosmetic customization options for your characters and mounts, and more.
The trailer begins with a look at the Greymane Camp, which will act as your home base of operations as you work to rebuild Kliff's Greymane clan and reclaim your homeland from the savage Black Bear clan.
As you play the game, you will gather resources and funds to develop this small camp into a bustling settlement where you can rest up, craft items, and prepare meals and food items that will give you passive buffs or restore your health in combat.
You will also gather scattered members of the Greymane to join your camp, who can then be ordered to travel the land in search of resources and thinning the enemy numbers of hostile strongholds while you're off adventuring.
The next section of the trailer covers the cities, towns, and people you will frequently interact with in Crimson Desert. The towns and cities of this game are filled with a large variety of NPCs who will sell you equipment and items, and offer quests for you to take up for handsome rewards.
You can also take part in fancy mini-games with these people, like fight clubs, arm-wrestling, shooting contests, horse racing, coin gambling games, and much more.
However, don't take these NPCs for granted because they will turn on you if you start committing crimes in their settlements, like thievery and murder. If you get caught by the local authorities, you will either need to pay a fine or serve in jail.
Towns and villages aren't the only places you will uncover in Crimson Desert, as you may come across settlements with strange villagers hidden away from civilization or discover closed-off locales that may require mystical or mechanical methods to access.
What lies inside such locales will be up to the player to discover for themselves.
The final section of the trailer covers miscellaneous topics like gathering cooking recipes you can find to cook meals to heal your Health, Spirit, or Stamina, and resource gathering activities such as fishing, hunting, and mining.
The coolest part of the trailer is the reveal that we can customize the looks of all playable characters (Kliff, Damianne, and Oongka) by adjusting their hairstyles and altering the color schemes of their armor sets using dyes crafted through Alchemy.
Crimson Desert will even let you change the color scheme of the rideable mounts you can collect in the game, from horses to rocket-firing mechs.
March 19, 2026, cannot get here fast enough for us to play Crimson Desert
Thus, we have reached the end of Crimson Desert's gameplay overview series, and it has sold me on checking out this game in the future.
The combat looks incredible, the exploration looks incredibly in-depth, and the side-activities look interesting enough to provide health diversions when you need a break from the main quests.
Here's hoping that all these ambitious systems come together with perfection when Crimson Desert launches on March 19, 2026, for Xbox Series X|S (with Xbox Play Anywhere support), PlayStation 5, and PC via Windows and Steam.
What do you think of Crimson Desert now that all its main gameplay features have been revealed? Will you be picking up the game when it launches on March 19, 2026?
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