One of 2025’s breakout hits has hit an apt sales milestone, as developer Sandfall Interactive discusses its next game.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is already a frontrunner for game of the year, but it’s also one of the unexpected hits of 2025.
The French turn-based role-player is developer Sandfall Interactive’s first game, albeit one with an oddly impressive voice cast, including Daredevil’s Charlie Cox, Andy Serkis, Jennifer English, and Ben Starr from Final Fantasy 16.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 surpassed one million units sold within three days following its launch on April 24, but now it’s hit a very apt milestone 33 days later.
As highlighted by the game’s X account on Tuesday, May 27, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has now sold 3.3 million copies after 33 days.
‘Seriously,’ the post reads. ‘As of today. We couldn’t make that up. Another entry on the long list of surreal moments that your support has made real. Thank you ALL. Tomorrow comes.’
It’s an impressive milestone for a new IP, and one which doesn’t include the game’s Game Pass numbers. For comparison, Persona 5, a Japanese role-playing game from an established series, surpassed 3.2 million units sold two years after it released worldwide in April 2017, so it’s certainly tapped into an audience beyond the genre’s usual remit.
Sandfall Interactive spoke about the game’s success in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, where they teased ‘great ideas’ for the studio’s next game.
‘The game has had success to an extent that we didn’t imagine,’ Sandfall’s COO and producer, François Meurisse, said. ‘We smashed our forecasts pretty fast.’
Speaking about the studio’s next project, he added: ‘There will be another video game, for sure. I can’t wait to dig more into the ideas we already have for the next game.
‘Plus the team has grown up, has acquired new skills throughout production. Many of them were junior when we started. We learned to work together. So I can’t wait to get to the next project, because we’ll start from a more efficient position than when we started the company five years ago.
‘And that [comes] with higher expectations as well, so it will be challenging. But I can say that we have – and [studio head] Guillaume Broche in particular has – great ideas for the next game.’
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is available across PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S.
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