Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 4.4 million units despite day one availability on Game Pass

Sandfall Interactive’s blockbuster turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has officially surpassed 4.4 million copies sold worldwide since its release on April 24, 2025. 

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, developed by the French studio and published by Kepler Interactive, quickly became critically acclaimed with a Metacritic Must-Play score of 93 based on 83 critic reviews and a user score of 9.7, becoming the highest rated game on Metacritic in 2025 to date.

The game’s updated sales figures emerged during an interview with Sandfall Interactive’s technical character artist Amandine Marest, producer Benjamin Dimanche, and senior gameplay programmer Florian Torres on French YouTube channel Clips du lundi.

When asked for a sales update, Marest confirmed the internal number, noting that while the publicly announced figure remains at 3.3 million copies sold just 33 days after launch, the actual total has reached 4.4 million. In his own words, “Officially, 3.3 million, but it’s 4.4 million.”

This means Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 shipped another 1.1 million units in roughly 140 days since release, which is outstanding for a debut indie title amid heavy promotion in Xbox showcases. The game managed to sell well over 500,000 units 24 hours post-release. Still, its monumental success has shaken the video game industry.

What makes Expedition 33’s development all the more intriguing is that Sandfall Interactive was founded in 2021 by a small team of just 30 developers who left larger AAA studios to pursue passion over profits.

The team drew inspiration from classic JRPGs and imbued the game’s development with French artistic influences to create Expedition 33’s unique narrative, where the world is threatened by a mysterious entity known as the Paintress, which erases people at the age of 33.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was available on Xbox Game Pass day one, which could have impacted the game’s traditional sales. Yet, despite all odds, the game managed to prosper beyond Sandfall’s expectations, proving the viability of passion-driven artistic indie projects in a market dominated by AAA games.

Suffering from success, Sandfall Interactive currently has no intentions of halting its ongoing momentum. In recent statements, the studio confirmed that it has plans to expand Clair Obscur into a broader franchise, with a follow-up project already in the works. Speculation suggests a sequel or an expanded DLC, one that will explore additional stories in the Clair Obscur universe.