Live Chat Gaming | (Part 4) Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
2Lets play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a 2025 role-playing video game developed by Sandfall Interactive and published by Kepler Interactive. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 24 April 2025. Upon release, it received critical acclaim and sold 500,000 units within its first day of release.
Gameplay: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based role-playing video game that includes real-time aspects such as quick-time-events and timing-based actions both in offense and defense. In defense, all attacks can be either dodged or parried.
Plot : Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes place in a dark fantasy Belle Époque setting. Every year for the past 67 years, the people of the isolated island of Lumière suffer an event called the "Gommage", where a goddess called "the Paintress" (Tracy Wiles) paints an ever decreasing number and all humans with an age above that number disappear. Every year after the Gommage, Lumière sends an Expedition of volunteers to head to the mainland in an effort to slay the Paintress before she can paint a new number. Expedition 33 is the latest to set out.
Members of Expedition 33 include: Gustave (Charlie Cox), a resourceful engineer who only has a year left to live; Maelle (Jennifer English), the youngest member of the Expedition and Gustave's foster sister; Lune (Kirsty Rider), a brilliant scholar and mage; and Sciel (Shala Nyx), a calm and cheerful warrior. As the Expedition traverses the mainland, they encounter various individuals, including: Renoir (Andy Serkis), an old man driven by ruthless determination; Verso (Ben Starr), a mysterious stranger who keeps watch of the Expedition; Monoco (Rich Keeble), a Gestral who lives in the mainland and is associated with Verso; and Esquie (Maxence Cazorla), a local mythical creature also living in the mainland.