Developer Sandfall Interactive introduced at the moment that its funky, turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has offered 3.3 million copies inside 33 days of its launch. This extraordinary coincidence has introduced consideration to the indie title, which launched alongside a number of different main triple-A releases. In line with Kepler, that quantity is separate from participant depend and doesn’t embrace Recreation Go numbers.
The announcement reads, “Significantly. As of at the moment. We couldn’t make that up. One other entry on the lengthy listing of surreal moments that your assist has made actual. Thanks ALL.” Kepler portfolio director Matthew Handrahan stated in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz that the sport’s comparatively brief size — “One of many issues that’s nice about Expedition 33 is it actually respects the participant’s time,” he stated — makes it a extra interesting worth proposition than different video games of an analogous or increased worth level.
Expedition 33 has achieved this success regardless of not coming from a longtime franchise and being developed by an indie studio. It additionally launched throughout the similar window as Virtuos’s remaster of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, which was the best-selling recreation of April (in keeping with Circana). Regardless of this, the 2 recreation don’t seem to have stolen an excessive amount of gross sales consideration from one another, and Bethesda even celebrated the launch of the opposite studio’s recreation with a picture of Oblivion’s Adoring Fan taking part in the sport.
