Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sets itself apart with immersive reactive turn-based battles, a mature and moving narrative and a stunning, evocative art style inspired by French and Parisienne art and architecture. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 promises players a beautiful story-driven experience and an emotional cast of characters that will stay with them long after the credits roll.

Once a year, the Paintress wakes to paint a cursed number upon her monolith and everyone of that age instantly turns to smoke and fades away. Year by year, that number ticks down. Tomorrow she’ll wake and paint “33.” Join Gustave, and his fellow Expeditioners as they embark on a desperate quest to break the Paintress’ cycle of death once and for all. Retracing the steps of dozens of failed Expeditions before them, players will overcome powerful enemies and fight to save the future of their world. Set in a dreamlike world, the story unfolds as fantasy and art converge, backed by an enchanting soundtrack to create a breathtaking story unlike any other. 

Powered by Unreal Engine 5, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, or ‘Expedition 33,’ is an innovative reactive turn-based RPG with immersive real-time offensive and defensive commands to enhance combat, making battles more engaging than ever. Players will master their offensive skills and magical abilities, dodge, parry and counter enemy assaults in real time, and target enemy weak points using a ranged free-aim system to overcome seemingly overwhelming odds. Furthermore, players will be able to customize each character’s unique stat growth, skill tree and gear alongside a wide range of learnable passive traits, offering endless opportunities to fine-tune their preferred strategies. 

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold more than 500k copies in its first 24 hours, doubled that number a few days later, reached 2 million copies in less than two weeks, 3.3 million in its first 33 days, and now 5 million.

French independent video game developer Sandfall Interactive and video game publisher and creative studio Kepler Interactive announced that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold over five million copies since its release in April 2025

Additionally, the game’s emotional soundtrack, composed by Lorien Testard, has over 333 million track streams across digital music platforms since its release, spending over 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical & Classical Crossover Album charts within that timeframe, and even reached No. 1 on iTunes Top 100 Albums Chart in nine different countries, including within France, the home of the Montpellier-based game studio.

To celebrate these impressive milestones, Sandfall Interactive and Kepler Interactive have today teased a new game update is currently in development for all platforms that will include several additions and updates as a ‘Thank You’ to the fans that have supported the game since release.

Within the upcoming major game update, players can look forward to: 

• A new, playable environment, taking the characters of Expedition 33 to a brand-new location with new enemy encounters and surprises to discover. 
• Challenging, new boss battles for late-game players to overcome.
• New costumes for each member of the Expedition, giving even more customization options for players throughout their adventure. 
• New text and UI game localizations into Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai and Indonesian, bringing the total number of supported languages to 19. 
• Plus, even more surprises fans can look forward to. 

“The response to our game has been nothing short of incredible,” says Guillaume Broche, Creative Director of Expedition 33 at Sandfall Interactive. “We spent years working on our dream project, and to know it has resonated with fans around the world in such a powerful way is both wonderful and overwhelming. We’re so grateful to our fans for their love of the world we created, for sharing their own fan art and music covers, for wearing their best Baguette cosplays to conventions, and for being incredibly supportive of our game. We hope the update we’re working on will act as a ‘thank you’ to those fans for their support – please be patient while our team work hard on bringing you something worth the wait.”

The major game update for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is planned to be released for free on all platforms.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is available for Xbox Series X|S (available day one with Xbox Game Pass), PS5 and PC (Steam / Epic Games Store).