Crimson Moon Wiki Sources: How We Check What We Publish

What this page is

Last full check across this site: 2026-08-23. Numbers that can change (price, release date, platform status) get rechecked regularly; every fact on this site carries its own read date rather than a single site-wide "last updated" stamp. As of this check the site draws on four kinds of first-party source — the Steam store page, seven Steam announcements from the developer, ProbablyMonsters' own Gameplay Explained videos, and the console/PC storefront listings — plus the game's Steam discussion forum, used only as evidence of what players are asking. There are 0 archived sources and 0 secondary/third-party sources cited for factual claims.

Primary sources

Crimson Moon Steam store page

• Publisher: Valve, listing content controlled by ProbablyMonsters
• Read: 2026-08-23
• How it was taken: read directly by hand — game name, developer, genre tags, price, platform, system requirements, supported languages, and external links (website, Discord, socials) were all copied from the live listing as displayed on the read date, not from a cache or a third-party aggregator. This is the single most-cited official source on the site.

Steam announcements from ProbablyMonsters

• Seven posts published between June 10 and August 18, 2026
• Read: 2026-08-23
• How it was taken: each announcement was read in full and summarised on the Updates page with its publication date. Where an announcement explained a game system — the run loop, loot and progression, the Sanctus Clypeus hub, the build system — that detail also feeds the relevant topic page, cited back to the same announcement.

ProbablyMonsters' Gameplay Explained videos

• Read: 2026-08-22, via captions and the videos' own descriptions
• How it was taken: these are the developer's own uploads, so they count as first-party. Mechanic names taken from automatic captions are treated with care — auto-transcription mangles proper nouns badly, so where a written official source spells a name differently, the written spelling wins.

Storefront listings on PlayStation, Xbox and Epic

• Read: 2026-08-23
• How it was taken: the PlayStation and Xbox listings were requested directly and confirmed to resolve. The Epic Games Store listing is named in ProbablyMonsters' own video descriptions but could not be loaded from this site's checking environment, so it is reported as "named in official material" rather than "confirmed live."

The Steam discussion forum, and how it is used

The game's Steam discussion forum is not treated as an official source — it is other players, not the developer. It is used for one thing: identifying which questions players are actually asking, so the FAQ answers real questions rather than invented ones. Every answer on that page still traces back to an official source, or explicitly says no official source has addressed it.

Archived sources

None yet. This site doesn't have a reason to cite a historical snapshot of any page until something changes and the "before" version becomes relevant (for example, a price change or a platform list update).

Secondary sources

None cited for facts. Third-party previews and creator videos have been read during research, but nothing on this site rests on them alone: where a creator describes a mechanic, this site either finds the same claim in an official source and cites that, or leaves the claim out. This site does not cite anonymous aggregator sites, unofficial "leak" accounts, or unverified third-party wikis.

What we do when sources disagree

This has already come up once. The developer's written Steam announcement and the automatic captions on the developer's own video spelled a hub character's name differently. The rule applied — and the rule this site will keep applying — is that written official text beats machine transcription of speech, because auto-captions are known to mangle invented proper nouns.

More generally: if two official channels say different things (for example, the Steam listing and a Discord announcement disagreeing on a date), this site notes both and marks the discrepancy explicitly rather than silently picking one official source over the other. Anything ProbablyMonsters hasn't stated publicly is written as "not announced," not guessed at.

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