Only 6.8% of Crimson Desert players on Steam have finished the open-world game 2 months after launch, and that means 93.2% of them are playing it right

The majority of Crimson Desert players on Steam are toiling to finish the gargantuan game’s main quests two months after launch, global gameplay statistics reveal, and that’s not a bad thing. Developer Pearl Abyss’ latest release thrives when the player luxuriates in size and variety, while the storyline it provides protagonist Kliff is as satisfying as you’d imagine an epic created for a man named Kliff.

Which is to say, the game is “far better as a sandbox than as a story,” as GamesRadar+ guides writer Joel Franey writes in his four-out-of-five Crimson Desert review. The Steam stats gaming content creator TheRealZephryss shares on Twitter seem to confirm this as the personality quips, “Looks like everyone is still in Hernand” (the starting area a lot of people really were trapped in for more than two weeks after launch).