I’ve made my feelings pretty darn clear about The Game Awards over the last three years. In fact, I recently wrote a third opinion piece about the show and how it “let me down” this year. However, it is fair to think that the show, regardless of all its many faults, can do some good to the gaming industry, including bringing attention to certain games for those who aren’t “fully plugged in” to the industry. At the 2025 show, Clair Obscur Expedition 33 by Sandfall Interactive won not only “Game of the Year,” but eight other awards across various categories.
Now, because of Alinea Analytics, we can state definitively that the game also got a huge sales boost across Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation post-victory. According to them, the game sold over 200,000 copies in the days following the event, with the majority of them coming on Steam. You might not think that’s a lot, but the game was only doing about 12K a day previously, and then jumped to 90K last Saturday.
The other reason this is important is that, thanks to these combined sales, the game has crossed six million units sold since its release earlier this year. If this rate of good sales continues, the game might get another million before the year ends! So, again, The Game Awards did well in showing off this title, and possibly making many curious about why it got so many awards.
For our review of Clair Obscur Expedition 33, click here.
Source: Alinea Analytics
