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/niconois May 01 '25

I tried to make a friend of mine enjoy JRPG and it doesn't click, but he loved Like a Dragon, and he is not racist

it's just that JRPGs are initially calibrated for a japanese audience

A lot of westerners will be easily thrown off by sometimes cringe female chara-design or even dialogues, or even anime style overall and always playing teenagers... and if you remove games having those aspects from the JRPG list there aren't much left

to these people I advise Like a Dragon, and now Expedition 33

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u/naturalkillercyborg May 01 '25

Yakuza is also initially calibrated for a Japanese audience... he probably just doesn't like some styles lol

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u/niconois May 03 '25

Yakuza has some cringe stuff, but the game is self conscious about it, so it's funny, and not that cringe in the end, if that makes sense

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u/naturalkillercyborg May 03 '25

I.. think you should probably address why you think all stuff aimed at a Japanese audience is cringe? Not all TPGs have insanely tropey anime stuff in them that people might find annoying, and western stuff is full of embarrasing tropes too?