Summary
In the weeks immediately following its release,Clair Obscur: Expedition 33has earned itself a lot of accolades. It’s already sold two million copies, achieved the almost unheard of feats ofits physical copies selling outandbeating its own Steam concurrent player count in its second week, it now has the best user scores on bothMetacriticand thePlayStation Store, and it has achieved acclaim from both reveredJapanese developersandthe French president. Not bad for your studio’s first game.
The long list of achievements doesn’t end there, though, as Clair Obscur now has higher Steam review ratings than many of its JRPG contemporaries.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Now Has Better Steam Reviews Than All Of The Mainline Final Fantasy Games
Before we start, yes, I’m aware Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn’t a JRPG. Its style and inspirations, though, are very much of JRPG nature, and thus, it deserves to be compared against them, so I will.
Over the last few days, according toSteamDB, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has risen to 92.52 percent positive reviews on Steam. It sits with “Very Positive” reviews, but more impressively, scores higher than many, many JRPG franchises.
On Steam, the highest-rated Final Fantasy game is Final Fantasy 9, with 92.2 percent positive reviews. The original Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy 7 are the only other games from the mainline series to have achieved over 90 percent, scoring 91.54 and 90.88 percent, respectively. Final Fantasy 7 Remake sits at 87.13 percent positive, while last year’s Rebirth is at 75.96.
You can see every Final Fantasy game’s Steam review score, according to SteamDB below:
92.2
91.54
90.88
88.98
87.96
87.83
87.41
87.13
87.03
86.6
85.75
84.62
82.36
81.88
77.76
77.75
76.94
75.96
73.79
71.17
Final Fantasy 13-2
58.2
It’s not just Final Fantasy games that Clair Obscur beats, though. Although there are only a couple of mainlineDragon Questgames on Steam, Clair Obscur topples them both, withDragon Quest 3: HD-2DRemake sitting at 72.71 percent, andDragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Agesitting at 90.62 percent.
Chrono Triggersits at 85.83 percent, Legend of Mana at 75.08,Octopath TravelerandOctopath Traveler 2at 84.11 and 92.4 percent respectively, andMetaphor ReFantazioat 89.24 percent. In the coming days, it will overtakeYakuza: Like A Dragon’s92.52 percent, and it already hasInfinite Wealth’s89.57 beat.
The only series that truly has Clair Obscur’s number isPersona.Persona 3 Reloadsits at 92.63,Persona 5 Royalat 95,18, andPersona 4 Goldenat 95.43. There’s still a way to go before Expedition 33 conquers those.
You have to imagine that in its wildest dreams, Sandfall Interactive could never have foreseen the level of critical and audience acclaim that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 continues to receive. It’s an all-timer, folks.
