Everyone's Playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Following Game Awards Sweep

In the aftermath of an unthinkable tally astatine The Game Awards past week, during which Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won a record-breaking 9 awards and announced a escaped DLC retired close now, a full batch of radical are purchasing and/or downloading the crippled to spot what each the fuss is about.

This reflection comes from aggregate information sources, each of which are pointing to a abrupt unreserved of players to Clair Obscur crossed platforms. On Steam, the crippled reached a highest implicit the play of 56,993 players, according to SteamDB. The numbers haven't been that precocious since June.

The game's popularity is reflecting successful sales, arsenic well. According to Rhys Elliott, caput of marketplace investigation astatine Alinea Analytics, income of Clair Obscur person spiked since The Game Awards. They're up 76% connected Steam, 21% connected PS5, and 3% connected Xbox (where it's disposable connected Game Pass). Alinea's estimation is that this amounts to implicit 200,000 much copies sold successful conscionable a fewer days.

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But returning players are besides coming back. Mat Piscatella, elder manager astatine Circana, said that "the percent of US progressive PS, XBX and US Steam players engaging with the crippled much than tripled by Dec 13th erstwhile compared to Dec 10th. US Steam showed the largest lift," successful a Bluesky post. Piscatella affirmed that this was the highest full of players engaged connected Steam since June 1, with Xbox successful the US seeing its highest full since June 27, and PlayStation successful the US since June 10th.

It's an unthinkable spike nary substance however you look astatine it, reflecting some those playing for the archetypal clip arsenic good arsenic returning players giving the escaped DLC a shot. It's apt that its tally of awards had thing to bash with this, particularly since 1 of those awards was Game of the Year. It's gained truthful overmuch attraction that adjacent French president Emmanuel Macron spoke up to congratulate developer Sandfall Interactive.

If you, similar each these different people, are conscionable starting Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 this weekend, present astatine IGN we person a adjuvant Beginner Guide that you whitethorn find utile to work done arsenic you start. You tin besides cheque successful connected our database of things Clair Obscur doesn't archer you, oregon our afloat Walkthrough successful lawsuit you get stuck.

We astatine IGN besides loved Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, giving it a 9/10 and writing: "Wearing its inspirations connected its sleeve, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 paints itself into the pantheon of large RPGs with a superb combat strategy and a gripping, harrowing story."

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].