Amid universal praise, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 achieves 1 million sales in 3 days

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A colorful and dramatic French indie RPG is making waves in the world of gaming, and it could be one of the best-rated video games of all time.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a thunderous indie success on all platforms. The ultra-stylish turn-based RPG achieved 1 million sales in just 3 days, no doubt as a result of it's high reviews and universal acclaim. As Forbes notes, Expedition 33 might actually have the best user rating score on Metacritic, where it sits at a 9.7 across 2,500+ user reviews (to contrast this, something as big as Tears of the Kingdom has an 8.8 user score with over 13,000 user reviews). It's also rated 4.92 stars on PlayStation with 6.2K ratings, and 4.5 out of 5 stars on Xbox with 1.9K total reviews.

The game's official Twitter account described the situation quite succinctly: "And here we are. Three days after launch. One million copies sold. Thank you for believing in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33."

For reference, another game in this genre with stylish graphics and designs, Metaphor: ReFantazio, sold 1 million copies in less than a day.

Revenue implications from game sales alone indicates Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 could have made around $50 million in revenue ($50 game x 1 million copies). That's just game sales, though, and Clair Obscur also launched into Xbox Game Pass, so there's untold amounts of earnings from that deal. Also bear in mind that some developers can earn extra bonus payouts when their games do well on Game Pass, especially as it pertains to downloads and total players.

Clair Obscur's success is a boon for Kepler Interactive, a smaller-scale publisher responsible for indie games like Scorn, Sifu, and Pacific Drive. It's also a big win for developer Sandfall Interactive