But I am not alone in my Crimson Desert fever. Average playtime of Crimson Desert is 22 hours a week on PlayStation and 20 hours a week on Xbox, halfway to a full-time job. While there isn’t that same equivalent data for Steam, since Crimson Desert’s launch 3.5 weeks ago, it has tremendous player retention. Crimson Desert Pearl AbyssIf you want to max out Crimson Desert, depending on what you do, this is probably a 250-300 hour game. No, I don’t think Crimson Desert will go full Baldur’s Gate and be putting up 100,000 nightly Steam players years later.

Source: Forbes April 07, 2026 15:40 UTC