Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sales top five million; free major update in development

Total sales for turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 have surpassed five million units, publisher Kepler Interactive and developer Sandfall Interactive announced. A free major update is currently in development that will include several additions and updates as a “thank you” to the fans who supported the game.

The free major update will add the following content:

• A new, playable environment, taking the characters of Expedition 33 to a brand-new location with new enemy encounters and surprises to discover.
• Challenging, new boss battles for late-game players to overcome.
• New costumes for each member of the Expedition, giving even more customization options for players throughout their adventure.
• New text and user interface game localizations into Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai and Indonesian, bringing the total number of supported languages to 19.
• Plus, even more surprises fans can look forward to.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launched for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on April 24. It is also available via Game Pass.

The game sold 500,000 units just one day after its release, one million units within three days, two million units in under two weeks, and 3.3 million 33 days after release, meaning an additional 1.7 million units have since been sold.

“The response to our game has been nothing short of incredible,” said Sandfall Interactive creative director Guillaume Broche in a press release. “We spent years working on our dream project, and to know it has resonated with fans around the world in such a powerful way is both wonderful and overwhelming. We’re so grateful to our fans for their love of the world we created, for sharing their own fan art and music covers, for wearing their best Baguette cosplays to conventions, and for being incredibly supportive of our game. We hope the update we’re working on will act as a ‘thank you’ to those fans for their support—please be patient while our team work hard on bringing you something worth the wait.”

In addition to the sales milestone and free update, Sandfall Interactive also announced that the game’s soundtrack, composed by Lorien Testard, has over 333 million track streams across digital music platforms since its release, spending over 10 weeks at No. 1 on the “Billboard Classical & Classical Crossover Album” charts within that timeframe, and even reached No. 1 on iTunes “Top 100 Albums Chart” in nine different countries, including within France.