Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 reaches its second major milestone just three days after its release. Bethesda congratulated the creators
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is just getting started. The developers of this year's best-rated game have boasted that they have crossed the very high sales threshold much earlier than they expected. Sandfall Interactive has no small reason to be proud.
Update #2 (April 27th, 06:20 am PT)
The sales success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just pushed the number of concurrent players on Steam over 100,000 for the first time since its release. Currently, 108,883 people are playing this title on the Valve platform. In three days the game received over 16,000 reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Update #1 (April 27th, 02:45 am PT)
Sandfall Interactive boasted about another milestone achieved by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. A million copies of the game were sold three days after the launch.
Original news (April 25th)
Amazing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 doesn't slow down. Just a day after its release, the French studio Sandfall Interactive announced that their debut game had already sold over 500,000 copies. The devs shared this great news on the game's official profile on X:
With a price of $50 per unit, estimated revenues could be around $25 million, according to calculations by Insider-Gaming. That's an impressive result for a small team of just 30 people.
Parallel to the sales success, Clair Obscur also achieves great results on Steam. As I'm writing this, the game has 71,136 players online at the same time and has received 94% positive reviews out of over 5,300.
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It's a hit
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is currently considered the best-rated game of 2025 according to Metacritic (even surpassing the highly appreciated Blue Prince). The average ratings of the game are:
- 90/100 - PC;
- 92/100 - PS5;
- 93/100 - Xbox Series X/S.
Reviewers around the world praise the game for its unique graphic style inspired by the French Belle Époque, great story, thoughtful and innovative combat system, and outstanding sound design. Sandfall Interactive has created something truly unique.
In the shadow of Oblivion...
The shadow drop of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, which took place a few days ago, could initially effectively divert some players' attention from other titles released in April, including Clair Obscur. The creators of Oblivion, Bethesda, and Obsidian Entertainment (Avowed, Fallout: New Vegas) decided to congratulate Sandfall Interactive by sharing cute graphics on X, inspired by their own games and a French hit. These weren't exactly "congratulations" for surpassing half a million copies sold (the posts appeared before this happened), but rather a nice gesture of support.
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Obsidian Entertainment
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Author: Michal Harat
He graduated in Polish philology with a specialization in journalism at the University of Gdańsk. He fell in love with games at the age of 4, when his older cousin turned on his dusty Pegasus. He completed his first title, Wolfenstein 3D, in the basement of his friend from kindergarten (his father kept an outdated PC there). Today, he plays almost exclusively on consoles, mainly on Switch and PlayStation, but he also has a lot of retro equipment on which he makes up for what he missed as a child. He says about every soulsborne production that "it's a good game, maybe the best." In his free time, he reads books that no one is interested in and goes to the gym. He is a fan of the Berserk manga and films from the A24 production company.
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