Crimson Desert features tons of creatures for you to tame, pet, and ride. Alongside dragons and wolves, cats and dogs roam the world of Pywell, too, and thanks to the many systems developer Pearl Abyss has included, you can get the best companion ever: a fat, lazy feline.
The latest open-world high-fantasy action-adventure game from the South Korean studio lets you acquire companions. From the two playable characters to the various recruits, the game lets you build trust with creatures and people alike by talking to and giving them gifts. Once trust reaches maximum, these companions will give you discounts, increase their wares, or join you on the battlefield more. Cats function much the same way: Pet them enough, and they’ll accompany you.
One such Redditor discovered this on March 24. In a popular post on the game’s subreddit, user Ter-Lee-Comedy showed off their black-coated, yellow-eyed chunker of a kitty that “doesn’t loot or anything, let alone walk on his own.” In the approximately 40-second video, Ter-Lee-Comedy’s masked Kliff can be seen walking Hernand with the nameless cat loaf on his right shoulder. It’s adorably cute, but because Pywell’s fat cats are prone to escaping, there’s a method to taming them.
As demonstrated by YouTuber Gaming Prodigy in a March 21 video, your very own cat cake can be found at the Nas River Fishing Dock just southeast of Hernand. Once a chubby kitty spawns, pick it up and pet it five times to reach 25 trust. If you put the cat down, though, it will try to run away. On the dock is a little hut that you can unlock with a key to sort of trap the cat. Don’t worry: It’s not cruel because there’s dried fish you can buy to feed the cat. Repeat the process–pick up, pet, put down, feed–until your trust reaches 100, and that’s it. You’ll then see the “Fat Cat” in your Pets column under the Inventory tab in your Menu. As evidenced by Gaming Prodigy, the cat walks and loots corpses, but if you two idle long enough, it’ll climb up your arms and onto your shoulder, perched like the good (but hefty) kitty it is.
You can do this for dogs, too, but don’t expect them to plop on your shoulders. They’ll bark at enemies, though.
Crimson Desert is available now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Since its March 19 launch, the game has already sold 3 million copies worldwide, with Pearl Abyss’ stock skyrocketing despite the “unintentionally included” artificial intelligence assets that drummed up quite the controversy.
