Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive has announced that the game has already sold 500,000 copies, just after launch. In a social media post, the studio said the game reached this sales milestone “sooner than we’d ever imagined.”
Expedition 33 is also on Game Pass, and presumably the 500,000 figure does not include people playing via the subscription service. Expedition 33 is the No. 2 best-selling game on Steam right now, only behind Oblivion Remastered, and it’s reached more than 70,000 concurrent players. The game is also on PS5.
Some industry observers theorized that Expedition 33 might have had its lunch eaten by Oblivion Remastered, as it surprise-launched just two days before Expedition 33. Both are Game Pass titles, but clearly, there is enough room for multiple success stories this week. Both Bethesda and Sandfall shared congratulatory messages with each other regarding their respective game launches this week.
Expedition 33 was developed by a core team of around 30 people at Sandfall. “I truly believe that five or six years ago it would have been impossible for a team of our size to make this,” creative director Guillaume Broche told PC Gamer of the studio’s use of Epic’s Unreal Engine 5.
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GameSpot’s Expedition 33 review scored the game a 9/10, with reviewer Richard Wakeling writing, “There are minor pitfalls in relation to its narrow exploration and some quality-of-life issues, but these missteps aren’t enough to significantly detract from a game with all the makings of an RPG classic.”
