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/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/Soupjam_Stevens Apr 27 '25

Yeah you see the same thing in music. You can be from upstate new york and play southern rock, you can be from socal and play midwest emo. A location in a genre name doesn't mean you have to be from that location to be that thing

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u/IllustriousSalt1007 Apr 27 '25 edited Apr 27 '25

Thank you. I don’t understand why it’s so hard for so many JRPG fans to comprehend such a simple concept.

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u/99-Potions Apr 27 '25

I remember most people in this subreddit were in agreement that JRPG is a style and not a literal definition of "Japanese-only" RPGs. Around when Elden Ring came out, the topic got weirdly divisive and has been since.