What Is Crimson Moon?

The Premise

Gildenarch has fallen to demons, undead, vampires and Hellgrowth abominations. You serve the Church as a Nephilim, the one kind of soldier equipped to push back into the city, and your long-term objective is to recover the three Abraxas stones needed to close the portal feeding the invasion.

The tone is gothic high-renaissance rather than generic dark fantasy: cathedral architecture, holy iconography turned violent, and a religious order that made you into a weapon.

Who Made It

ProbablyMonsters both developed and published Crimson Moon. It is an AA release rather than a blockbuster, and the $19.99 price is central to how it was received — critics landed around a 72 Metascore, with the more positive reviews explicitly weighing the game against what that price usually buys.

How a Run Works

You launch missions from Sanctus Clypeus, the hub, at the War Table. A run takes you through handcrafted Wards with changing encounters, ending in a demanding boss fight. Along the way you pick up gear, boons and two currencies.

Gear you carry back and purify enters a permanent catalog that seeds future loadouts. Boons collected during a run are temporary and reset. That split — permanent catalog, temporary run power — is the engine the whole game runs on.

What the Combat Feels Like

Melee is souls-inspired: deliberate wind-ups, dodges and parries, weapon swapping to break guard, and a stamina economy that punishes button-mashing. Weapon Arts and elemental effects layer on top, and angelic transformation gives you a burst window with brief invincibility for boss phases.

Steam's own tags capture the hybrid honestly — Souls-like and Roguelike sit next to Action RPG and Online Co-Op. It is not a full Souls campaign and not a strict roguelike; it borrows the combat weight of one and the run structure of the other.

Solo or Co-op

Both are first-class. Single-player is fully supported, and optional online co-op is capped at two players with crossplay between PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles, enabled by default. Co-op partners share a life pool and can revive each other mid-fight. There is no cross-progression, so your save stays on the platform you bought it on.

What Crimson Moon Is Not

• Not a live-service game — no battle pass, season pass or timed events
• Not a class-based RPG — equipment defines your role, not a locked class
• No character creator — you always play the Nephilim
• Not an extraction shooter, though extracting loot safely does matter
• Not on Game Pass, and not available on Switch, PS4 or Xbox One