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Blue Prince Has Already Lost Its Highest-Rated Game Of The Year Crown To Clair Obscur

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Josh Coulson

Published Apr 23, 2025

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has debuted with an average review score of 91 on OpenCritic.
That makes it the highest-rated game of 2025 so far.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Split Fiction, and Blue Prince have previously worn that crown.

The top spot when it comes to the highest-rated video game of 2025 has changed hands a few times already. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 held it until handing it over to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Split Fiction a month later, and a month after that, 💮168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Blue Prince took itꦬ away from Hazelight. Now, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's review scores are in and, as🌠 it stands, Sandfall Interactive's debut game is t𝄹he best of the year.

The review embargo on Clair Obscur lifted this morning and as the scores poured in, the RPG . That's a point higher than Split Fiction and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and two points more than 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Monster Hunter Wilds, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Keep Driving, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Blue Prince.

The main characters of Clair Obscur Expedition 33 standing together with a label that reads TheGamer Five Stars Review.

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Even though Blue Prince debuted at a 92, its score has dropped since, which meant Split Fiction briefly returned to the top spot before Clair Obscur swooped in. That also means we could see the same thing happen to Clair Obscur, but it's less likely. Blue Prince was an unexpected hit which means some outlets likely opted not to review it at first. However, since it launched on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation Plus and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Game Pass, and got a ton of hy෴pe post-release, it h🅰as been reviewed more since, hence its score dropping slightly.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Is The New Highest-Rated Game Of 2025

It Was Fun While It Lasted, Blue Prince

Clair Obscur is a far bigger release that more people know about, and more people were expecting it to be a big hit. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Previews have been glowing meaning as many outlets as possible will have wanted their reviews out there as soon as poss⭕ible. There will be more reviews trickling in over the coming hours and days, but it's unlikely the score will drop quite as drastically as Blue Prince's did in the days after its launch.

That might mean Clair Obscur is now the new pace setter for 2025, and with so many big games still to come, it should probably make the most of it. With Nintendo launching a slate of Switch 2 games between June and the end of the year, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Death Stranding 2 and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ghost of Yotei still to come from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation, and Rockstar sticking to 2025 for GTA 6, for now♋, there will almost certainly be a few more games that score more than 90 this year.

That said, to debut with a score of 91 is huge for Clair Obscur and Sandfall. With 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:🍃Oblivion Remastered dr🎃opping on Game Pass on Tuesday, just two days before Clair Obscur's arrival, there was a real risk its release would get oversha🦄dowed, particularly with it also being available on Game Pass day one. Hopefully it scoring a 91 will convince more people it's worth taking a break from Oblivion to check out a new, very different RPG.