Steam RPG Surpasses Red Dead Redemption 2 With Open-World Detail

With Red Dead Redemption 2 poised as “one of the most detailed games of all time”, fans are comparing it with a recently released RPG.

Crimson Desert came out last month and is being touted as being one of the biggest and most detailed games of the generation, on par with games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

While those are big shoes to fill indeed, there are some things coming out about the game that certainly prove it’s a contender for the title of Most Detailed Game Ever.

Players have pointed to a clip that went viral earlier today showing some NPCs in Crimson Desert carving a statue in the game. The clip is formatted as a timelapse showing these characters chipping away at a block of marble.

It takes several in-game days for the statue to be made, but the player demonstrates how the game takes the time to show the entire process from start to finish.

“99.999% of gamers will NEVER see this detail in Crimson Desert, yet Pearl Abyss decided to animate the slow process of a statue being carved,” reads the post sharing the video earlier today.

As far as you can see, it’s not actually an animation but rather four different models representing each stage of the creation process. But still, pretty cool nonetheless.

Crimson Desert Is Full Of Hidden Details Like This That Most Players Won't Ever Notice

Other kinds of details that players have spotted, as well as ourselves, include moments like NPCs building a house from scratch, or having a dynamic wildlife ecosystem where species hunt their prey unscripted.

There are also plenty of other simulated aspects that go unnoticed as well, such as almost every character having their own unique schedules and routines (while a novelty now, believe it or not, many open world games back in the 2000s had these kinds of details).

With AAA budgets being what they are, these kinds of details are pretty common in modern open-world games. Bethesda especially has always been great at it, adding plenty of detail and hidden secrets in its world designs for games like Starfield, Fallout 4, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that only keen eagle-eyed fans will spot.

However, more recent games like Crimson Desert, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Dragon’s Dogma 2 are proving that these studios can rival the likes of Bethesda and Rockstar Games by baking in more hidden details to their worlds.