Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 News

Thank you from Sandfall Interactive!

[p]Expeditioners, [/p][p][/p][p]In April we released Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. [/p][p]5 months later, we’ve sold 5 million copies worldwide!
[/p][p][/p][p]On top of that, the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 original soundtrack, composed by Lorien Testard, has now reached over 333 million track streams since its release! [/p][p]We’ve been completely blown away by the constant support from so many of you - Your artwork, your stories, your cosplays and your endless creativity has been loved and appreciated by all of us. [/p][p]We could not be more grateful, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you. [/p][p][/p][h2]Upcoming Update[/h2][p][/p][p]To celebrate this milestone, we’re working on a game update for all platforms that will include several additions and updates as a THANK YOU!! [/p]

[p]A new, playable environment, taking the characters of Expedition 33 to a brand-new location with new enemy encounters and surprises to discover. [/p]

[p]Challenging, new boss battles for late-game players to overcome. [/p]

[p]New costumes for each member of the Expedition, giving even more customisation options for players throughout their adventure. [/p]

[p]New text and UI game localisations into Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian, bringing the total number of supported languages to 19. [/p]

[p]And more to come… [/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][p]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. [/p][p]Now we’re really looking forward to bringing you more of what we're working on!
[/p][p]For those who come after.
Thank you.
[/p][p]Official Game Website: www.Expedition33.com X / Twitter: @Expedition33
TikTok: @Expedition33Game
Instagram: @Expedition33Official[/p]

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's lead writer had apparently never played a video game before writing it

There is a belief that appears to crop up within the games industry that to work in it, you must be wholly aware of everything in it. You must live, breathe and die by games! That doesn't always result in interesting games though, sometimes it's actually quite useful to have outsiders come in to bring other perspectives. Admittedly that occasionally results in writers from the film industry waltzing in thinking it's a one-to-one transfer, which is admittedly not great. But other times you get Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, whose writer, as it turns out, had not played a single video game in her life before writing it.

Following up an award-hoarding hit with a sequel is a tough gig - innovations and new content may upset those that worshipped the original, and the expectation bar will always be set sky high. Hades 2 has faced this very challenge, but Supergiant has given it plenty of cooking time in early access to create what appears to be the perfect roguelike sequel. With version 1.0 arriving tomorrow, September 25, critic reviews have just come flooding in. With an average of 94 on Metacritic, Hades 2 is not only being scored more highly than its predecessor, but it has now shot to the top of the aggregator's 2025 chart for PC games, surpassing GOTY frontrunner Clair Obscur Expedition 33.

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Expedition 33 devs had to "up our game" after Lies of P left studio CEO stunned

While one is a bruising cousin of Dark Souls, and the other is a strategic, turn-based affair, there's a lot of shared inspiration and visual cues between 2023's excellent Lies of P and this year's GOTY frontrunner, Clair Obscur Expedition 33. Both lean on the Belle Époque era, a period in French history where architecture, art, and technology all rose to an expressive prominence. In a conversation between Lies of P's game director Choi Ji-won, and Sandfall Interactive's CEO Guillaume Broche, the latter admits that the studio had to "up our game" after playing Lies of P, and that the response to the game "validated" what it was trying to achieve with Expedition 33.