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Pearl Abyss's BlackSpace Engine open-world action-adventure follows Kliff across Pywel. Launched on March 19, 2026, it sold 6M copies in under 3 months and won PC Game of the Year at the Golden Joysticks.
Ranked #10 behind #9 Control Resonant because its 77 Metacritic and 74% OpenCritic scores lag the rest of the top 10, yet its 6M unit sales, Golden Joystick PC Game of the Year win, and 3rd-place Ultimate GOTY finish (15% vote share) keep it ahead of lower-visibility 2026 releases. Pearl Abyss's BlackSpace Engine open-world action-adventure follows Kliff across Pywel. Launched on March 19, 2026, it sold 6M copies in under 3 months and won PC Game of the Year at the Golden Joysticks.
Pearl Abyss built Crimson Desert as an open-world action adventure on its BlackSpace Engine. Its March 2026 launch covered PC, console and Mac storefronts. Exploration includes climbing and gliding, and combat combines melee and ranged options. It fits readers who want to set their own pace through a large world. The Golden Joystick PC award is a useful reason to look at it alongside the ceremony’s more specialised winners.

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