Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Clears 500,000 Copies Sold

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the debut RPG from Sandfall Interactive, is already disconnected to a beardown start. The workplace announced contiguous that Expedition 33 has deed a income milestone of 500,000 copies sold.

"A milestone for us, reached sooner than we'd ever imagined," the squad said successful a station connected X/Twitter. "Thank you all."

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 went unrecorded yesterday, April 24, crossed PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. It's besides a day-one Game Pass game, and contempt launching a fewer days aft the shadow-drop of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, the RPG inactive seems to beryllium making waves. When Oblivion dropped, Clair Obscur's steadfast Kepler Interactive adjacent jokingly compared it to "Barbenheimer." The comparison, arsenic it turns out, has been reasonably accurate.

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, from Final Fantasy to Persona. It follows a unit of Expeditioners successful a fractured, post-apocalytpic satellite wherever each year, a elephantine being called The Paintress etches a caller fig and erases anyone older than it. The members of the Expedition, the adjacent up connected the block, person 1 extremity successful mind: question to the ends of the continent and destruct the Paintress, ensuring she tin ne'er overgarment decease again.

The reception of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been wide positive, sitting astatine 92 connected MetaCritic and 91 connected OpenCritic, putting it alongside Split Fiction and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 arsenic immoderate of the year's astir lauded games frankincense far.

In IGN's 9/10 reappraisal of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, our reviewer described it arsenic a "modern RPG classic," wearing its inspirations connected its sleeve and coating itself into the pantheon of large RPGs.

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Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.