Summary

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 surpasses all mainline Final Fantasy games in Steam review ratings.
  • The game also outperforms Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, and other major JRPGs on Steam.
  • Although behind Persona games, Clair Obscur has amassed tremendous critical and audience acclaim.

In the weeks immediately following its release, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has earned itself a lot of accolades. It's already sold two million copies, achieved the almost unheard of feats of its physical copies selling out and beating its own Steam concurrent player count in its second week, it now has the best user scores on both Metacritic and the PlayStation Store, and it has achieved acclaim from both revered Japanese developers and the French president. Not bad for your studio's first game.

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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 to SteamDB, 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:

Percentage Of Positive Steam Reviews

Final Fantasy 9

92.2

Final Fantasy

91.54

Final Fantasy 7

90.88

Final Fantasy 3

88.98

Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster

87.96

Final Fantasy 6

87.83

Final Fantasy 12

87.41

Final Fantasy 7 Remake

87.13

Final Fantasy 4

87.03

Final Fantasy 14 Online

86.6

Final Fantasy 8

85.75

Final Fantasy 5

84.62

Final Fantasy 11

82.36

Final Fantasy 15

81.88

Final Fantasy 2

77.76

Final Fantasy 16

77.75

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13

76.94

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

75.96

Final Fantasy 13

73.79

Final Fantasy 8 Remastered

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 mainline Dragon Quest games on Steam, Clair Obscur topples them both, with Dragon Quest 3: HD-2D Remake sitting at 72.71 percent, and Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age sitting at 90.62 percent.

Chrono Trigger sits at 85.83 percent, Legend of Mana at 75.08, Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler 2 at 84.11 and 92.4 percent respectively, and Metaphor ReFantazio at 89.24 percent. In the coming days, it will overtake Yakuza: Like A Dragon's 92.52 percent, and it already has Infinite Wealth's 89.57 beat.

The only series that truly has Clair Obscur's number is Persona. Persona 3 Reload sits at 92.63, Persona 5 Royal at 95,18, and Persona 4 Golden at 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.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Turn-Based RPG Fantasy Systems 29 9.4/10 OpenCritic Reviews Top Critic Avg: 92/100 Critics Rec: 97% Released April 24, 2025 ESRB Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence Developer(s) Sandfall Interactive Publisher(s) Kepler Interactive Engine Unreal Engine 5
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