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/CapCapital Apr 27 '25

OP fixing to get blasted for calling this game a JRPG

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u/No_Sympathy_3970 Apr 27 '25

JRPG is really just a poorly named genre, not all RPGs from Japan are JRPGs and a non Japanese game can be a JRPG

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u/extralie Apr 27 '25

not all RPGs from Japan are JRPGs and a non Japanese game can be a JRPG

Well yeah, and not all Metroidvania are Metroid or Castlevania games. A lot of genres are badly named if you take their name literally.

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u/A-Centrifugal-Force Apr 27 '25

Metroidvania is particularly bad because the early Castlevanias aren’t even Metroidvanias. Heck, you could even argue that the original version of the first two Metroid games aren’t Metroidvanias. The pattern was started by Super Metroid and Symphony of the Night.

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u/KDBA Apr 28 '25

It was started by SotN specifically to separate it from previous Castlevania games - it's a Castlevania game that plays more like Metroid.

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u/MetalFingers760 Apr 27 '25

Yep. Not all soulsborne games are Dark Souls or Bloodborne. If it worked this way we would have to update the genre name every time a game comes out. Oh that's dated now we call it Soulsborne Ring. Oh that's dated now we call it Soulsborne Ring of Khazan games.

This is a JRPG made by a European studio. Period.