What if the biggest game at the end of 2025 came from the United States or from Japan, but from South Korea? Crimson Desert, the next blockbuster of Pearl Abyss, a studio behind the venerable Black Desert Online, has finally stalled its release date: November 2, 2025. It is the Korean newspaper MTN which reveals the information After an interview with the studio. A slightly surprising date on paper, since it falls on a Sunday, an unconventional day for a world exit. But in the era of all digital, and in Asia where Sunday is not sacred (it is a day like any other to consume), this is no problem. In short, the meeting is made.
And that’s not all: in a video game calendar suddenly deserted by GTA6, pushed back to 2026, Crimson Desert finds himself in an ultra-favored position to aim much more than a simple success of esteem. The game between clearly in the shortest list of the most anticipated games of the year 2025 with monster expectations. Reminder, Crimson Desert, this is the XXL project announced by Pearl Abyss since 2019. At the start thought as a kind of black Desert 2.0, in a well-typed Korean Mmorpg vein, the game finally transferred to a Narrative Open-World Action-RPG Right line of a the Witcher 3 or an assassin’s Creed Origins. Suffice to say that the ambition is colossal. And when we see the trailers (who send very very technically heavy) and that once we have taken it in hand, we understand that the studio does not want to simply “play in the big leagues”: he wants to prick the cup.
Fun Fact: Sony would have tried to win an exclusivity of distribution for Crimson Desert, ùais Pearl Abyss refused to yield. A choice Couillu, which shows the confidence (and the ambitions) of the studio. It must be said that the game experienced a chaotic development to say the least: between changes in artistic direction, system redesign, and persistent rumors of reports in 2026 … We started to believe in it half. And yet, it is official (or almost): it will be good November 2025. With GTA 6 now offside for 2025, Crimson Desert finds himself alone in the face of very relative competition. Yes, some other Korean titles are also expected: architect at Hybé IM, Aion 2 at NCSOFT, Seven Deadly Sins Origin at Netmarble, but none has the potential for Raz de Marée International that seems to wear Crimson Desert on his shoulders. If the technique follows, if the gameplay keeps its promises, and if the story manages to captivate beyond the Asian borders, we could well hold the first Korean game to really have Western juggernauts vacillate on their own land.
See you on Sunday, November 2, 2025 to find out if it is the start of a new era for the K-Game worldwide.