Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Tops 4.4 million sales

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has present sold 4.4 cardinal copies, unit astatine developer Sandfall Interactive person confirmed.

Although official figures inactive basal astatine 3.3 cardinal copies sold successful conscionable 33 days, selling and merchandise shaper Benjamin Dimanche, hairsbreadth and method quality creator Amandine Marest, and elder gameplay programmer Florian Torres revealed successful a speech with French streamer Antoine Daniel that income person present surpassed 4.4 million.

In the video interview, erstwhile asked by Daniel for an update connected income truthful far, Torres and Marest answered astatine the aforesaid time. And though Torres said "Officially…", Marest jumped close successful with: "4.4 million." The trio past looked astatine each other, laughed, and Torres added: "Officially, 3.3 million, but it's 4.4 million" (thanks, Gamereactor).

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launched connected April 24 crossed PC and console, but besides consecutive into Xbox Game Pass arsenic a day-one title. It besides launched against Bethesda’s RPG behemoth The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, making this a stunning milestone for the archetypal crippled from Sandfall.

In IGN's 9/10 reappraisal of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, we described it arsenic a "modern RPG classic," adding: "In truthful galore ways, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 reminded maine of galore classical and modern RPGs I love, but developer Sandfall genuinely understood wherefore those games are peculiar and made the pieces it borrowed its own."

If that's convinced you to springiness it a go, beryllium definite to cheque retired our tips for the important things to cognize earlier going into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The workplace precocious published update 1.4.0, adding cardinal features similar a Battle Retry enactment alongside a big of quality-of-life changes, ocular improvements, and bug fixes.

We precocious learned that Clair Obscur is not conscionable the shortened sanction for Sandfall's blockbuster debut RPG — it's besides the sanction for an full franchise.

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