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/IX_Equilibrium Apr 27 '25

Im getting cancer from people not knowing what a JRPG is.. A game is not a JRPG just because its made in Japan. Sea of Stars is Canadian and is a JRPG while Dark Souls isn’t a JRPG just because its made in Japan.

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u/JameboHayabusa Apr 27 '25

Honestly we should just delete the sub and start over.

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u/Illokonereum Apr 28 '25

Over at r/JRPG2 we swear to call any game with teenagers killing god a JRPG, and anything else goes in the bin. We know this may disqualify many of your favorite “proto-JRPGs” but it’s better this way, we tell ourselves.

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u/GarnerYurr Apr 29 '25

I believe maelle is 16, expedition 33 is safe from the purge

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u/Realistic_Village184 Apr 27 '25

Sea of Stars is Canadian

So you're saying that Sea of Stars is a CRPG?

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u/Kurta_711 May 01 '25

No, but it would be if it were Chinese

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u/NoSoup4you22 Apr 27 '25

Apparently JRPG isn't about mechanics, just about how much bad anime dialogue there is.

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u/IX_Equilibrium Apr 27 '25

Its about how shy is the main character toward his love interest

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u/Biggy_DX Apr 27 '25

It's about the main heroine being circled by her friends as an act of assurance, while clenching her fist to her heart and giving a self-assured nod that she'll make it through with the power of FRIENDSHIP.

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u/Lazydusto Apr 27 '25

It's also about the main heroine getting walked in on by the main hero in embarrassing fashion!

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u/NoSoup4you22 Apr 27 '25

Just noticed your username. Good choice, my friend.

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u/IX_Equilibrium Apr 27 '25

First more extreme metal album Ive listened to like 20 years ago and then gone to the BM/DM rabbit hole from there ahaha

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u/Setsuna_417 Apr 28 '25

I understand you're being sarcastic, but the anime-type story telling is deeply entrenched with JRPGs, so an absence of that leading to a game not being called a JRPG is ultimately fair. It's not just the mechanics that make the genre.

The souks games are not called JRPGs for the same reason, as Miyazaki makes it a point to only have western high fantasy in it.

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u/bariztizg Apr 27 '25

Does it have to be turned based? Or what are the criteria?

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u/Tenmak Apr 28 '25

And yet this game is both a JRPG and a Dark Souls at the same time.

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u/DiplomacyPunIn10Did Apr 28 '25

The dev team was based in Quebec City and were largely Francophone. Thus Sea of Stars is also a J’RPG.

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u/al0xx Apr 30 '25

i didn’t realize people thought dark souls was a JRPG lmao

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u/IX_Equilibrium Apr 30 '25

Idk man, that is really one of the hot takes of all time

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u/Beneficial-Look-7603 Apr 27 '25

I'm not showing for Sea of Stars or E33, because they don't give me what a JRPG does. I saw a clip of E33, and they were quipping like a Marvel movie.