Crimson Desert’s Controls Draw Universal Criticism Amid Mixed Steam Reviews

Crimson Desert has been out about 12 hours and already earned more than 13,000 Steam reviews alongside a peak of 240,000 concurrent PC players. Of 13,477 ratings, just shy of 60 percent are positive, placing the game in “Mixed” territory. That mirrors the critical side, where 98 Metacritic reviews leave it at a 78 overall, a score the coverage says is skewed by a number of peculiar 10s.

Player reaction on Steam is messy: many positive entries still contain furious complaints, while negative reviews are often driven by vendettas or attempts to counter a perceived narrative. Still, nearly every side converges on one point—the controls.

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