Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive has introduced that the turn-based RPG by no means stopped promoting effectively. The sport, which got here out simply over one month in the past, has now bought over 3.3 million copies worldwide.
That determine was achieved 33 days after launch, which is simply the great bit symmetry you like to see for a recreation like this.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s success started at launch, when the sport quickly shot up the Steam charts, selling a million copies in its first three days, a determine that shocked even its personal creators.
That 1 million was made all of the extra spectacular by the truth that Expedition 33 launched into Recreation Go, that means that you just didn’t have to purchase a duplicate to play it. Current Recreation Go members, or any of the tens of millions who sometimes subscribe for one month every time a sizzling new launch comes out, don’t issue into these gross sales figures.
Expedition 33 additionally launched proper up towards the highly-anticipated – and long-rumoured – launch of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, and never even that seems to have impacted the gross sales potential of the brand new recreation.
Sandfall later introduced that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gross sales had handed 2 million copies. Which brings us to immediately’s information of three.3 million. The truth that it was achieved in 33 days is admittedly simply icing on the cake.
Thirty-three days in the past, we launched Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Since then, we’ve bought 3.3 million copies.
Severely. As of immediately.
We couldn’t make that up.
One other entry on the lengthy record of surreal moments that your assist has made actual.
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Even outdoors of recreation circles, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been recognised by people such as French President Emmanuel Macron, who praised the French recreation’s “audacity and creativity.” Shortly after launch, the sport’s wonderful soundtrack landed the number one spot on Billboard’s Classical Album Charts, too.
Sandfall continues to work on the sport, just lately hinting at a Switch 2 model, and the potential for some type of DLC.
