Summary
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 3.3 million copies in 33 days, a coincidental commercial milestone.
- The game achieved feats like selling one million copies in three days and receiving praise from the President of France.
- Sandfall Interactive's RPG has also garnered critical success, emerging as the best-rated of 2025 so far.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 3.3 million copies in 33 days since the game's launch, making for an interesting coincidence. In the short time after its arrival on April 24, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has proven to be a widely acclaimed commercial success for France-based indie studio Sandfall Interactive.
The year 2025 has already seen a slew of smash-hit games, and one of the biggest revelations among them was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the highly popular turn-based RPG. The debut project of Sandfall Interactive showed great promise right from the get-go, selling the entire stock of its Collector's Edition within days of opening pre-orders and securing a movie adaptation deal months ahead of the game's launch. To add to the momentum, it became a huge commercial and critical success upon rolling out, leading to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 emerging as the best-rated game to come out this year. Most recently, the game crossed another sales milestone on a symbolic day, catching the attention of the team behind it.
Other Games Can Learn From One Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Character Trait
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 makes its first impressions count, bridging its characters' personalities and circumstances with realism.
A quick glance at the title "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" is enough to realize the significance that the number 33 carries for the game. Hence, the fact that it reached sales of 3.3 million on its 33rd day since release stands out as quite a remarkable coincidence, something about which the developer said, "We couldn’t make that up." Indeed, the overwhelming success so far, which also saw Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 receive praise from French President Emmanuel Macron, could be described as nothing short of a dream come true for a new studio. Echoing a similar sentiment, the official announcement deemed the aforementioned coincidence "another entry on the long list of surreal moments" that the fan support turned into reality.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Passes 3.3 Million Copies Sold
In what is another impressive milestone, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 moved over three million copies in around a month after launch. Previously, the Kepler Interactive-published title had breached the two million mark in sales on day twelve, averaging more than a million copies sold in a week. Moreover, its very first milestone of one million sales came within three days of hitting the stores. Keeping in mind that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was a day-one release on Xbox Game Pass, these numbers appear even more impressive and give a measure of the game's strong appeal.
Taking note of the game's continued popularity, Sandfall Interactive recently kicked off pre-orders for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Monolith Set. This particular package comes exclusively with all the physical merchandise that was part of the Collector's Edition, making it suitable for fans who already own the game and only want to grab the physical goodies.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 92 /100 Critics Rec: 97%
- Released
- April 24, 2025
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Sandfall Interactive
- Publisher(s)
- Kepler Interactive
WHERE TO PLAY
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Genre(s)
- Turn-Based RPG, JRPG, Fantasy
