Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the debut RPG from Sandfall Interactive, is already off to a robust begin. The studio introduced as we speak that Expedition 33 has hit a gross sales milestone of 500,000 copies offered.
“A milestone for us, reached ahead of we would ever imagined,” the workforce stated in a put up on X/Twitter. “Thanks all.”
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 went stay yesterday, April 24, throughout PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X and S. It is also a day-one Recreation Move sport, and regardless of launching just a few days after the shadow-drop of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, the RPG nonetheless appears to be making waves. When Oblivion dropped, Clair Obscur’s writer Kepler Interactive even jokingly in contrast it to “Barbenheimer.” The comparability, because it seems, has been pretty correct.
Developed by the newly shaped studio Sandfall Interactive, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based RPG that takes heavy inspiration from the style classics, from Closing Fantasy to Persona. It follows a crew of Expeditioners in a fractured, post-apocalytpic world the place yearly, a large being known as The Paintress etches a brand new quantity and erases anybody older than it. The members of the Expedition, the subsequent up on the block, have one aim in thoughts: journey to the ends of the continent and destroy the Paintress, making certain she will be able to by no means paint demise once more.
The reception of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been extensively optimistic, sitting at 92 on MetaCritic and 91 on OpenCritic, placing it alongside Cut up Fiction and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 as a number of the 12 months’s most lauded video games so far.
In IGN’s 9/10 evaluate of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, our reviewer described it as a “trendy RPG traditional,” sporting its inspirations on its sleeve and portray itself into the pantheon of nice RPGs.
Should you’re beginning the journey this weekend, or possibly have already got, you’ll want to try our ideas for the vital issues to know earlier than going into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Eric is a contract author for IGN.