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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 More Than Doubled Metaphor: ReFantazio’s First Week Steam Sales – Report

May 4, 2025 3 Min Read
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Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has made waves since launch, incomes in depth important acclaim and promoting over a million copies in three days. It additionally noticed over 145,000 peak concurrent gamers on Steam lately, beating out titles like Metaphor: ReFantazio.

In line with Alinea Analytics (by way of GamesIndustry), its gross sales are additionally stronger, with over 785,000 copies reportedly bought on the platform in its launch week. That is greater than double the gross sales of Metaphor: ReFantazio and even Ultimate Fantasy 7: Rebirth, although the latter arrived for PC later.

Alinea’s head of market analyst, Rhys Elliott, stated Expedition 33 bought over 350,000 copies on PS5 and had over 1.5 million wishlists on Steam. Relating to its success, Elliott famous the standard and $50 worth as key elements.

“The sport is improbable. It combines gorgeous visuals with a rewarding turn-based fight system that melds the Celebrity Saga timed JRPG fight with some Sekiro-style parries. It additionally has an affecting story and plausible writing – in addition to lovable protagonists and love-to-hateable antagonists with an all-star voiceover forged.

“The low worth level possible additionally factored in, as our Steam knowledge reveals that many gamers chunk the bullet when a AAA recreation goes on sale and drops beneath $50.”

Nonetheless, he additionally feels that the sensible visuals and emphasis on turn-based fight performed a pivotal function. “There was additionally a gap for a contemporary, realistic-looking JRPG. Sq. Enix was reticent to take action with the Ultimate Fantasy collection. Now, it’s in all probability kicking itself.

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“Expedition 33 has given RPG followers one thing they all the time needed. In case you requested Ultimate Fantasy followers from the late ’90s/early ’00s what the best model of a JRPG ought to appear like, it’d be one thing like this,” stated Elliott.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is on the market for Xbox Collection X/S, PS5, and PC alongside Recreation Cross. You may try our evaluate right here – we scored it a 9 out of ten. Although it’s not confirmed, there’s seemingly a “good likelihood” of DLC, in line with lead author Jennifer Svedberg-Yen.


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