Crimson Desert players demand bear domestication

Crimson Desert players demand bear domestication | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Action Here are 9 incredibly specific and petty beefs I have with Crimson Desert Action After 6 hours, Crimson Desert is one of the most overwhelming, chaotic, madcap videogames I’ve ever played—and I’m hungry for more Action Crimson Desert review: The Forza Horizon of action RPGs Action Crimson Desert launches to 239,000 players on Steam but ‘Mixed’ reviews, and it’s mostly because of how dense and cryptic the whole thing is Action The new Crimson Desert patch adds private storage at base camp and nerfs a few bosses—also, Pearl Abyss knows the control scheme isn’t great RPG Crimson Desert dev says it ‘takes time’ to get used to the game’s notoriously clunky controls, but advises players to ‘think of it like riding a bike, it comes naturally after you learn it’ Action How to tame a horse and level it up in Crimson Desert RPG Crimson Desert is the most hyped game I’ve seen in a minute Action Crimson Desert’s bafflingly convoluted controls are already frustrating players: ‘I shouldn’t need to spend 12 seconds picking up a handful of potatoes’ Sim The horse gamers have spoken: This new horse sim has ‘a beautiful sense of realism I haven’t felt since RDR2’ Sim Finally someone has threaded the needle between survival game and horse girl sim Games The Legend of Khiimori’s new gameplay shows Death Stranding with a horse is an idea that has legs Action If there’s one thing I’ve learned playing Crimson Desert for 75 hours, it’s that you should absolutely treat this game as a slow burn Action Do yourself a favour in Crimson Desert and play the game with a controller RPG Path of Exile 2’s new druid class is the most fun you can have being a bear in a videogame right now Popular PC Gamer ClipsCrimson DesertMarathonBest PC gearGDCQuizzes Games Action Crimson Desert players demand bear domestication News By Lincoln Carpenter published 23 March 2026 Countless bear cavalry dreams, dashed. 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Subscribe to our newsletter Much like its design philosophy, Crimson Desert’s marketing strategy was, essentially, “yes to all of it.” Before release, its absurd density of seemingly mismatched features made for baffling yet fascinating trailer footage, particularly Kliff’s apparent capability of turning bears, wolves, dodo birds, dinosaurs, and dragons into domesticated mounts.Prospective players were understandably very excited about the menagerie of mountable monsters. Since Crimson Desert’s launch last week, however, those countless Kliffs have realized with growing dismay that they don’t get to keep all its more exotic mounts. One does not simply walk. – YouTube Watch On Unfortunately, any time Kliff gets to ride something more interesting than the humble equine, it’s a temporary privilege. Bears, for example, can only be ridden for a brief time after defeating them in combat, and will turn hostile as soon as you dismount. Similarly, the dodo-like kuku bird can only be mounted temporarily after unkukuing its rider.Article continues below You may like Here are 9 incredibly specific and petty beefs I have with Crimson Desert After 6 hours, Crimson Desert is one of the most overwhelming, chaotic, madcap videogames I’ve ever played—and I’m hungry for more Crimson Desert review: The Forza Horizon of action RPGs Kliff’s dragon, meanwhile, is a late game quest reward, and even then can only be summoned once an hour for a few minutes of aerial firespewing. Otherwise, if you ride any non-horse creature to a stable, you’ll find the caretakers unwilling to accept your would-be companion as a permanent mount.Given that a bear is universally cooler to ride than a horse, players are, understandably, pretty miffed to find that their dreams of riding around on things with crueler diets than oats have been denied. I’ve rarely seen such unified heartbreak from a new player base: I’ve currently got 7 tabs open collecting threads from the Crimson Desert subreddit where users are begging Pearl Abyss to rethink its fantasy mount tightfistedness.”It’s a solo game, who am I hurting if I put the bear in the stables?” asks redditor WanderingMustache. “Or if I want to ride the