Five months on, 9.7% have finished the story on Steam

About five months after release, 9.7 percent of players have finished Crimson Desert’s storyline on Steam, by the note’s count. On Xbox and PlayStation the picture is similar: hundreds of hours go somewhere other than the main campaign.

HowLongToBeat puts the main line at about 69 hours, so length by itself does not explain the figure. The Seasoned Storyteller badge, for completing every main quest, has been earned by 12.6 percent on average across Steam, Xbox and PlayStation. Thousands of players have already spent more than 200 hours in the game.

The story was criticized as muddled. Pearl Abyss promised to revise the coherence of key scenes. The current shares show that most people are still busy with side quests, the map and progression.