Fresh from sweeping the Golden Joysticks and poised to do the same at The Game Awards, Sandfall Interactive's phenomenal debut RPG is one of the most buzzed-about releases of the year, so it should surprise no one when we announce that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the biggest new third-party game launch on Xbox Game Pass of 2025, Microsoft announced in a new blog post.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the acclaimed RPG from first-time developer Sandfall Interactive, has sold 4.4 million copies, according to staff members at the studio. Sandfall's official sales figure, however, still stands at 3.3 million units sold by the end of May. The game seems to have since sold over one million copies across supported platforms. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Sells 4.4 Million Copies Sandfall Interactive team members revealed the latest sales milestone in an interview with French creator Antoine Daniele during a recent Twitch livestream.
"Guillaume Broche, Francois Meurisse, Tom Guillermin from Sandfall, and Alexis Garavaryan from Kepler-creators of Expedition 33-visited the Square Enix office for a creatively rich exchange of visions and ideas," Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi wrote on social media on Thursday.
Somehow, with all the other wild shit happening in the early going in Clair Obscur, a golem made of bits of wood and burlap sacks who beats people to death with his dead partner who's a living paintbrush comes off as just another day at the office.
