r/JRPG • u/Marinebiologist_0 • Apr 27 '25

News Clair Obscur has achieved the highest concurrent player rate ever for a JRPG on Steam.

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Incredible numbers, this doesn't even include the Xbox Gamepass player count. The last time I remember a JRPG getting this level of attention was Persona 5 and NieR Automata in 2017. It'll be interesting to see how massive Persona 6 will be, if it launches day 1 on all major platforms.

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u/Novel-Editor4017 Apr 27 '25

This game came out of nowhere.

I'm loving the buzz, it feels unprecedented for this genre nowadays.

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u/DHTGK Apr 27 '25

Really? It had a really amazing reveal trailer last year. The other trailers haven't gotten crazy press, but that one blew the game up.

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u/shadowwingnut Apr 27 '25

A lot of that is that JRPG fans completely avoid Microsoft and a lot of its reveal trailers and I depth trailers were featured on Microsoft presentations because of Game pass.

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u/ThrowawayBlank2023 May 01 '25

I'm a diehard JRPG fan and the moment I saw the first reveal trailer wherever that was I knew I NEEDED this game regardless of it being well-received or not. The fact that it came out with incredible reviews was just the cherry on top, but yeah this game really appealed to me from the get go. And I am someone who plays "anime style" games 99% of the time, be it JRPGs or VNs haha

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u/bluejejemon Apr 28 '25

Bro I've been hyped for this game since it was first revealed in the Xbox showcase

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u/PontusFrykter Apr 27 '25

Out of nowhere? It was one of the most anticipated games of the year, it's your fault you have not been following the industry

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u/Zefyris Apr 27 '25

well it kind of still did come out of nowhere. Just not this year, but last year, during the xbox game show.

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u/PontusFrykter Apr 27 '25

Yeah, that's called game announcement.

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u/Zefyris Apr 27 '25

which came out of nowhere. QED

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u/PontusFrykter Apr 27 '25

You are missing the point. The game was announced a year ago. It was an anticipated release.

By your logic, every single game in the industry comes out of nowhere, unless it has been announced 5+ years prior, or what?

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u/Zefyris Apr 27 '25

well, my point is that, what they said was technically the truth, which as we all know, is the best kind of truth there is. Even if that wasn't what they meant.

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u/PontusFrykter Apr 27 '25

I see that your best tactics is completely avoid what other person says and just keep rephrasing your original message. No point in discussing further, if you won't read what I say

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u/cheeseburgers42069 Apr 27 '25

Chill out bro

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u/LaMelonBallz Apr 27 '25

Overall the whole experience is giving me late 90's early 00's vibes

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u/Stoibs Apr 27 '25

I mean, it was one of the most antiicapted games for JRPG fans for the better part of a year now since the intiial reveal so I wouldn't say 'nowhere'.

But it's true that the 1 million copies sold and the 120K-something player count is a pleasant surprise.

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u/Vykrom Apr 28 '25

Yeah. I'm struggling to think of the last time the genre had this kind of fever. I don't want to be hyperbolic, but this feels more like the FF7 craze than any of the other bigger hitters in the last ten years. It's absolutely wild. People that don't even look at or consider this type of gameplay are giving it a shot and falling in love