Crimson Moon is shaping up to be exactly the kind of action RPG that makes me nervous about handheld performance. It has a gigantic gothic city, flashy combat, dense enemy encounters, magical effects flying everywhere, and the sort of dramatic lighting that looks fantastic on a powerful desktop but can absolutely bully a handheld APU….
After spending a lot of time with action RPGs, especially games that borrow ideas from Soulslikes and roguelites, I’ve learned one thing pretty quickly: a complicated build system isn’t automatically a good one. What matters is whether the different parts of the build actually work together when you’re under pressure. That’s where Crimson Moon gets…
If there is one thing I already love about Crimson Moon, it is the fact that the game doesn’t force you into the usual “pick a class and live with it” RPG routine. You are not choosing between a Warrior, Rogue, Mage, or some other locked archetype and then spending the entire game following a…
If there is one thing that immediately caught my attention about Crimson Moon, it is the decision to throw the traditional RPG class system out of the window. There is no character creation screen where you pick Warrior, Rogue, Mage, or some other archetype and then spend the next 50 hours wondering whether you made…
Crimson Moon is exactly the kind of game that can make you stop in the middle of a fight just to admire the scenery. The ruined streets of Gildenarch, gothic architecture, dramatic lighting, glowing Nephilim abilities, and huge supernatural enemies give it a visual identity that is hard to ignore. But there is a catch:…
If you are playing Crimson Moon on an RTX 4070 Ti, you are sitting on a graphics card that can handle this gothic action RPG extremely well. The question is not whether the GPU can run the game, but how much visual quality you can keep before the frame rate starts falling apart during the…
If you are playing Crimson Moon on an RTX 3060, I would not immediately reach for the Ultra preset and call it a day. On paper, the RTX 3060 still looks like a very capable 1080p card, especially with its 12GB of VRAM, but modern games can be brutally uneven when you push every graphics…
Crimson Moon is shaping up to be one of those action RPGs that immediately grabs the attention of players who enjoy brutal combat, dark fantasy worlds, flexible builds, and a good old-fashioned fight against things that absolutely should not exist. ProbablyMonsters’ upcoming game puts you in the boots of a Nephilim, a human-angel hybrid battling…
There are few things more annoying in an action RPG than getting everything ready for a co-op session, sending an invite to your friend, and then watching Crimson Moon throw a connection error in your face. You have the game running, your friend is online, the boss is waiting, and somehow the two of you…
If you fire up Crimson Moon expecting dark fantasy, brutal Nephilim combat, and a trip through the ruined city of Gildenarch, the last thing you want is a completely black monitor. Unfortunately, a black screen during startup is exactly the kind of PC problem that can turn an exciting game night into 30 minutes of…
