Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been formally named Sport of the 12 months at The Sport Awards 2025, together with a number of different awards. Should you’re leaping in for the primary time (or coming again for one more playthrough) after that win, IGN has guides, commentary, and wikis that can assist you get began in your cross-continental journey.
Claire Obscur: What’s Expedition 33 and may I play it?
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based RPG (type of like Last Fantasy VII) set on the earth of The Continent. The movie follows a gaggle known as Expedition 33 on a mission to defeat Paintless, a mysterious determine who obliterates individuals over a sure age in an annual ritual known as “Gommage.”
Along with very distinctive turn-based fight that emphasizes quite a lot of abilities and parries, damaging bosses with “tells” and loads of secret weaknesses, you and your get together will discover quite a lot of completely different areas, encounter enemies, discover treasure, and uncover what occurred to different explorers who beforehand went on unsuccessful adventures to defeat the Paintless. It’s also possible to assemble your workforce to deal outrageous combo-based injury. It is a function that avid gamers love about Expedition 33.
Should you’re an RPG fan however do not have the time to sink in over 100 hours, Expedition 33 may be for you. Should you solely deal with the principle story, you possibly can count on the credit to roll in about 28 hours. This will increase to 45 hours for those who add aspect quests. It should take roughly 65 hours to finish all the pieces. If you wish to defeat non-compulsory bosses with loopy builds, you are able to do that too. Oh, and if you wish to know extra, we gave the Expedition 33 an excellent rating in our overview.
Should you’re new to Clair Obscur, take a look at What Clair Obscur Will not Inform You for essential ideas and methods. Additionally, remember to comply with the walkthroughs that may enable you full the sport’s fundamental story quests, and use the checkmarks to trace your actual progress.
How fight works in Expedition 33
As beforehand talked about, Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 options turn-based fight. Which means that as a substitute of everybody within the struggle attacking without delay, together with the enemy, you assault one particular person at a time. Suppose basic Last Fantasy, Persona, or Baldur’s Gate 3.
Nonetheless, you do not simply watch for the enemy to assault you. One of many fundamental promoting factors right here is your potential to parry, dodge, and leap to keep away from assaults and counterattack. By urgent the button on the proper time when your opponent makes use of a transfer, you possibly can dodge, leap, or parry to keep away from injury completely or inflict injury in your opponent.
As in your personal abilities, these are powered by Pictos and Lumina. Picts are particular gear that may be outfitted to your character to provide them particular advantages and enhance their stats. Lumina works with Pict and has a particular talent that’s unlocked once you win 4 battles with Pict, and will be handed on to all get together members.
Construct is a vital a part of fight in Expedition 33, and you should listen not solely to Picts and Lumina, but in addition to weapons and attributes. Irrespective of your character, we’ve a construct information that can assist you plan so that you at all times have the perfect gear and stats.
If all of this appears complicated or overwhelming, head on over to our fight information, which particulars all the pieces you should find out about Expedition 33’s fight system, together with extra advanced mechanics not coated right here. For extra fight and party-related sport assist, take a look at:
Exploration and world design defined
After embarking on a journey to defeat Paintless, you arrive on a continent that’s primarily a large overworld. Not solely is that this a technique to transfer to new areas throughout the principle story, however there are additionally enemies roaming round ready to be defeated (or averted).
Moreover, the continent has quite a lot of collectibles, permitting you to defeat non-compulsory bosses and full aspect quests. Should you’re a completionist, you possibly can spend hours within the continental overworld alone, monitoring down each attainable merchandise, secret, and easter egg.
Our Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 interactive map is the right companion device that can assist you discover the continent. Not solely does it lay out complete areas that can assist you plan your subsequent transfer, but it surely additionally tracks essential areas resembling new areas, sidequests, collectibles, bosses, and extra, so that you at all times know the place to go to finish your aims.
You’ll be able to filter particular markers on the Expedition 33 interactive map utilizing the filters within the left sidebar. It’s also possible to use checkmarks to trace your actual progress.
We now have loads of in-game assist that can assist you discover and accumulate all the pieces The Continent has to supply, together with:
“Thanks” replace
Launched as a thanks to the group, the free Expedition 33 “Thank You” replace dropped as a shock throughout The Sport Awards on December 11, 2025. It added new content material resembling Lumina, weapons, bosses, picture modes, new environments to discover, and several other enhancements and bug fixes.
A whole walkthrough of the brand new content material will probably be printed quickly, and we’ll hyperlink it right here when it is obtainable. For now, you possibly can see all of the additions on the Replace 1.5.0 patch notes web page.
Go to the Expedition 33 wiki for an entire record of all Clair Obscur sport assist.
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