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/MakotoKami Apr 27 '25

You can consider games outside Japan JRPG. It's just a taxonomy. You can divide games anyway you like. But in reality, a JRPG made outside Japan has an odd feel to it. Like a Zimbabwean Champagne, the grapes would never taste exactly like those from the Champagne region, no matter how you try it.

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u/HalcyonHelvetica Apr 27 '25

Spaghetti westerns are already a thing. It's not that out there to think something can allude to genre conventions even if not confined by geographic boundaries

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u/KylorXI Apr 27 '25

yea... spaghetti westerns has its own term because its a different thing from a different geographic boundary. just like JRPG exists because it has japanese culture involved. you can emulate it from somewhere else, but then it hits different.