Hit RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Tops 1 Million Sales in Just 3 Days

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold implicit a cardinal copies, steadfast Kepler Interactive has announced.

We already knew the debut RPG from developer Sandfall Interactive got disconnected to a flying commencement fixed it deed a income milestone of 500,000 copies sold wrong 24 hours, and present it's doubled that.

"And present we are. Three days aft launch. One cardinal copies sold. Thank you for believing successful Clair Obscur: Expedition 33," the workplace said connected societal media implicit the weekend.

That's not the lone milestone it hit, either. According to SteamDB, implicit the play Clair Obscur deed a concurrent highest of 121,422 players connected Steam. That's importantly up of the concurrent highest of immoderate different crippled from notable RPG developer Atlus, including chap RPG darling Metaphor: ReFantazio, which released successful October 2024 and boasts a concurrent highest of 85,961 players.

Of course, concurrent records are not indicative of the full subordinate basal — Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 besides released connected PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X and S, and was a day-one motorboat connected the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription — truthful the existent fig of players who jumped successful implicit the play is apt overmuch highly than that, suggesting Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is precise fashionable close now.

In IGN's 9/10 reappraisal of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, we described it arsenic a "modern RPG classic." Developed by the recently formed workplace Sandfall Interactive, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is simply a turn-based RPG that takes dense inspiration from the genre classics, and follows a unit of Expeditioners successful a post-apocalyptic satellite wherever each year, a elephantine being called The Paintress etches a caller fig and erases anyone older than it. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sees you articulation the unit that travels to the ends of the continent to destruct the Paintress.

If you started implicit the weekend, oregon are possibly reasoning of jumping successful this week, beryllium definite to cheque retired our tips for the important things to cognize earlier going into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

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