"Speechless": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the first game from a studio founded by ex-Ubisoft devs, is officially the best-rated game of 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
(Image credit: Sandfall Interactive)

Our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review is overflowing with praise for developer Sand💫fall Interactive's turn-based RPG, and it seems that so is everyone else. The scores have 🍬settled, Expedition 33 is now the best-rated game on Metacritic and Opencritic for 2025, and nobody is more surprised than the developers themselves.

"Speechless," Sandfall . "So many incrౠedible games have been released this year. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you."

: "what's happening are you crazy".

Technically speaking, both Expedition 33 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:and Blue Prince have 🉐a score of 92 on . However, because the former has more total reviews, it ranks higher in the end.

, meanwhile, tabulates scores slightly differently (Blue ൲Prince is ranked fourth at an 89 over there) and puts Expedition 33 a full point ahead of Split Fiction and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, which are tied for second place according to ꦍits data.

This milestone was paired with the news that Expedition 33 has 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:already sold 500,000 copies. It's currentl꧂y the third-best-selling game on Steam, where it has over 5,000 94% positive reviews after one day, and is still enjoying the throne of Steam's front page banner. At its current pace, we can reasonably estimate that it's on track to sell a few million copies.

By every metric imaginable, Expedition 33 is a massive success. Developed by a team of just over 30 staff, led by two co-founding ex-Ubisoft developers likely more accustome꧅d to different genres and workflows – the Ubisoft game closest to Expedition 33 is probably Child of Light, and it's an anomaly in the studio's stable – it also joins Blue Prince as one of the most impressive debuts of the year.

(Update - May 8: This article previously incorrectly said that Sandfall Interactive is largely comprised of ex-Ubisoft staff. It was founded by Ubisoft alumni, but many staff are new, junior developers.)

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Austin Wood
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Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his carꦗeer-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.

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