About Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Digital Deluxe Edition The Deluxe Edition includes: • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Base Game • The “Flowers” Collection - Six outfits and hairstyles inspired by the Flowers of Lumière, along with six additional “Gommage” outfit variations. One for each playable character. • “Clair” - A custom outfit for Maelle • “Obscur” - A custom outfit for Gustave About the Game Once a year, the Paintress wakes and paints upon her monolith. Paints her cursed number. And everyone past that age turns to smoke and fades away. Year by year, that number ticks down and more of us are erased. Tomorrow she’ll wake and paint “33.” And tomorrow we depart on our final mission - Destroy the Paintress, so she can never paint death again. We are Expedition 33. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a ground-breaking turn-based RPG with unique real-time mechanics, making battles more immersive and addictive than ever. Explore a fantasy world inspired by Belle Époque France in which you battle devastating enemies. In this evolution of JRPGs, real-time actions enhance the heart of turn-based combat. Craft unique builds for your Expeditioners that fit your playstyle via gear, stats, skills, and character synergies. Open an active dimension in combat - dodge, parry, and counter in real time, chain combos by mastering attack rhythms, and target enemy weak points using a free aim system.
- • Reactive turn-based combat with parries and dodges
- • Picto and Luminas build system
- • Belle Époque-inspired art direction
- • Fully voiced ensemble cast
- • Splendid side content and arena challenges
- • Steam Achievements
- • Full controller support
- • Steam Cloud
- • Family Sharing
Gameplay
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a third-person turn-based role-playing game with real-time elements. The player controls a party of Expeditioners exploring a fantasy world. On their turns, players select whether to use an item, perform a melee attack to gain Ability Points, or spend accumulated Ability Points to use ranged attacks or Skills. Ranged attacks are aimed freely, similar to a third-person shooter. When using a Skill, a quick time event can be completed for improved effects. During enemy turns, the player can dodge, parry, or jump over attacks in real time to avoid damage. Parrying requires more precise timing than dodging but provides Ability Points and the opportunity to counterattack. A stamina system allows players to "Break" enemies, temporarily stunning them. As players progress, the game introduces new attacks and parries, including Gradient Attacks, Gradient Counters, and Gradient Skills, all of which deal significant damage. The use of gradient attacks is monitored by the party using a shared gauge. It will slowly fill up when the party uses skills in combat. The Expeditioners and enemies can also apply various status effects on each other, boosting or impairing either side's combat efficiency. Some enemies have weak points that can be targeted, or may be vulnerable to certain elemental attacks. If the combat party is defeated, reserve characters may be called in to continue fighting. Combat ends when either side has no remaining combatants, or when the player decides to flee the battlefield when they are facing minor enemies. The game features six playable characters, with each having unique skill trees, weapons and gameplay mechanics. The mage Lune's Skills generate elemental "Stains", which can be spent to enhance her Skills. The fencer Maelle switches between Stances, which alter her Skills, damage and defense. The scythe-wielding warrior Sciel can use a set of magical cards to apply and stack "Foretell" to enemies, and then consume them to inflict maximum damage on enemies. Gustave and Verso deal more damage to enemies the more they attack them. Gustave, in particular, gains charge based on the amount of attacks he's done, which can be…
Offline play
Full single-player campaign available offline on PC.
- Developer
- Sandfall Interactive
- Publisher
- Kepler Interactive
- Release
- 24 Apr 2025
- Price
- Paid
- Modes
- single-player
More details
- Metacritic score
- 91
- Steam achievements
- 55 achievements
Screenshots
System requirements
PC — minimum
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- Intel Core i7-8700K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB / AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB / Intel Arc A380 6 GB
- Storage
- 55 GB available space
PC — recommended
- OS
- Windows 11
- Processor
- Intel Core i7-12700K / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB / AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB
- Storage
- 55 GB available space
