Clair Obscur: Sandfall Interactive’s debut RPG, Expedition 33, is already off to a strong start. The studio today announced that the Expedition 33 has been sold at a sales milestone of 500,000 copies.
“The milestones for us were reached earlier than we could have imagined,” the team said in a X/Twitter post. “thank you.”
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was released yesterday, April 24th across PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S. Also, despite being a one-day game pass game and it was released a few days after casting the shadows of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the RPG still appears to be making waves. When Oblivion fell, Clair Obscur’s publisher Kepler Interactive jokingly compared it to “Barbenheimer.” After all, the comparison was pretty accurate.
Developed by the newly formed studio Sandfall Interactive, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based RPG that takes a lot of inspiration from genre classics, from final fantasy to persona. It follows the crew of the world’s expeditions after every year giants called painkillers etch new numbers and erase older ones each year after the giants break each. Members of the next block expedition have one goal in mind. Move to the edge of the continent, destroying painkillers, ensuring you will never be able to paint death again.
The reception for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is widely positive, sitting at 92 at Metacritic and 91 at OpenCritic, and as part of the most admired games ever, along with Split Fiction and Kingdom Come: Reverance 2.
In a 9/10 review of Passthecontroller’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the reviewer described it as a “modern RPG classic,” wearing its sleeves and painting the great RPG pantheon.
If you’re starting your adventure this weekend or already have one, check out some tips on what’s important to know before heading to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Eric is an Passthecontroller freelance writer.
