Put down your other games, cancel your weekend plans, and say goodbye to sunlight: Crimson Desert is reportedly going to take players around 250 hours to complete. According to PC Gamer, Pearl Abyss' upcoming open-world action RPG is absolutely packed to the brim with content, which is either great news or a personal threat depending on your backlog situation.
For context, 250 hours is roughly 10 full days of playtime. That's longer than most people's summer vacations, more hours than some folks spend at work in a month, and almost certainly enough time to question every life choice that led you to this moment staring at a loading screen at 3am.
The grind never stops
If you somehow power through all of that and find yourself hungry for more - first of all, are you okay? - Pearl Abyss has you covered. PC Gamer reports that DLC is already planned for Crimson Desert, meaning the developers have absolutely zero intention of letting you escape this game's gravitational pull anytime soon.
Pearl Abyss has previous form here, of course. Their live-service MMO Black Desert Online has been running since 2014 and still regularly drops massive content updates, so the studio clearly has a taste for the infinite content grind. Crimson Desert seems to be channeling that same "we will bury you in quests" energy, just wrapped in a single-player package.
A meaty main quest and then some
The 250-hour figure covers the full game experience, and with DLC already locked and loaded in the chamber, players who fall in love with protagonist Macduff's story won't be left standing in an empty open world wondering what to do next. Pearl Abyss is clearly positioning Crimson Desert as a long-haul adventure rather than a weekend fling.
Whether all 250 of those hours are genuinely compelling gameplay or a mix of side quests, exploration, and the occasional "why is this enemy sponging my attacks" moment remains to be seen. But if sheer volume of content is your love language, Crimson Desert is basically writing you a novel.
Crimson Desert is set to launch on PC and consoles, and at this point you should probably start preparing emotionally now. Your steam backlog will not survive this.
