Crimson Desert Surpasses 5 Million Sales in Launch Month

Crimson Desert has evidently had a strong launch, despite initial launch impressions being somewhat less than stellar. Even a month after launch, weekly peak concurrent player counts still top 200,000 players on Steam alone. According to a post by the official Crimson Desert account on X, the game has already sold more than 5 million copies in its first month since launch. While these sales figures are nothing to scoff at, as we recently covered, Resident Evil Requiem managed to top 5 million sales in the first week after launch, reaching 6 million a few days after that, making it the fastest-selling Resident Evil game to date.

Still, it is impressive that an entirely new IP that had a somewhat storied history—Crimson Desert was initially planned as an MMORPG, but the studio pivoted to a single-player RPG mid-development—has drawn such a large audience. Even more impressively, unlike Resident Evil Requiem, initial impressions of Crimson Desert weren’t all that positive, with the Metacritic score even now sitting at 77. The user score, and the game’s Steam review rating, however, are significantly more positive, with the former at 8.8 and the latter at 86% Positive.