Steam Community :: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

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nemesis

39 people found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny

Recommended

4.0 hrs on record

Posted: 22 December

People trying to review bomb this game for AI Generated content.
After also being upset and lookinf more into it, its important to note:

The AI was used as placeholder assets, and removed from the game before launch. This game does not actively contain any AI generated content. I guarantee a lot of other companies are doing the same with their games.

Aaraknyx

‘Thank You’ Update available now - Thank you for an amazing year!

11 Dec

What an incredible night at The Game Awards!!

Congratulations to ALL of our fellow nominees and winners tonight - we're so happy to be part of an incredible evening!

To celebrate this amazing year, and as a sincere ‘Thank You’ to the community, we are now rolling out the free major ‘Thank You’ Update, adding new content and a few fun surprises!

You can expect to find:

A new, playable environment, taking the characters to new adventures...
Brand new music tracks by award-winning composer, Lorien Testard.
Challenging boss battles for late-game players to overcome within the Endless Tower.
An official Photo Mode, allowing players to get creative and capture their favourite moments from the game’s story and battles.
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.
New Quality of Life improvements, other new features, and additional improvements to the game’s performance across platforms, including on handheld PC systems.

Read the full patch notes here:

https://steamproxy.com/steamstore/news/app/1903340/view/491585297311596633

And of course, new music tracks by the wonderful Lorien Testard are available on digital streaming platforms now, so let your neighbours know they’ll have to listen through the walls.

https://lnk.to/exp33-versos-drafts

https://steamproxy.com/steamstore/app/4227900

Our gratitude for this community goes far beyond what we are able to express, but this update should hopefully serve as our way of saying thank you.

This year has truly been incredible thanks to you. <3

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Official Game Website: https://www.Expedition33.com

Sandfall Interactive’s Official Website: https://www.Sandfall.co

Kepler Interactive Website: https://www.kepler-interactive.com

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

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Gustave

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I don't recommend this game

If you don't like turnbased games then don't play this. The combat is just way too boring.

keyshi

Just now

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20 people found this review helpful

Recommended

61.9 hrs on record

Posted: 23 December

I don’t even know where to start. The graphics, the story, the dialogue, the combat, everything is amazing and it’s what made me love turn based games.

Batman

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7 people found this review helpful

Recommended

28.1 hrs on record

Posted: 22 December

As a man who has held his dead son in his arms, I know how unbearably hard it can be to say goodbye to someone forever. This game is a true masterpiece of storytelling. It has no clear-cut villains and no unequivocally “good” side. It has many layers, and in the end it is an intimate attempt to show how grief can turn into a completely destructive force if one runs from it instead of tending to it in a healthy way.

But is Expedition 33 Game of the Year? In my opinion, that depends heavily on whether the JRPG-style turn-based combat, with its constant flood of Quick Time Events (QTEs), works for you. I think players will clearly split into two groups here. The first group will be those for whom the combat system—full of action, explosions, flashing lights, and the eventual satisfaction of mastering it—is genuinely fun, and they won’t say a bad word against it.

When you combine that with the beautiful—if slightly over-the-top—visual style (which does have strong narrative justification), an absolutely breathtaking soundtrack, solid UE5 optimization, and the already-mentioned brilliantly written story, you get a true Game of the Year experience in every sense of the word.

For me personally, however, the combat system was the least enjoyable part of the game. I’ll admit it outright: I’m not a fan of either JRPGs or souls-like games. As a result, my experience during the first few hours was genuinely painful and almost managed to push me away from the game entirely. Fortunately, the story pulls you forward like an unstoppable locomotive and simply wouldn’t let me go.

My specific issue is that over the course of the game you’re required to complete thousands upon thousands of QTEs. I still remember reviews of games like Fahrenheit (if anyone here even remembers it) and similar titles, where QTEs made up only a fraction of what Expedition 33 throws at you—and people complained endlessly. Today, QTEs are often considered a “boring” and obsolete game mechanic.

On top of that, what’s happening on screen often barely matches what’s actually happening mechanically. Sometimes you’ll get hit by a three-meter-long sword that should split your character in half and kill them on the spot, yet your character only takes, say, 10 damage thanks to some nonsense overpowered buff. Meanwhile, a monster that looks almost identical to the previous one can one-shot your character simply because it happens to be a mini-boss with plot armor.

In short, I never experienced that crucial sense of satisfaction from the combat system. And the constant need to grind the same set of monsters over and over—learning their attack patterns—only for that monster to never appear again for the rest of the game, didn’t add much joy either.

In the end, I didn’t hesitate to finish the game on “easy,” which I normally never do. But it saved my experience of the excellent story—one it would be a sin to miss. And that’s what I’d recommend to you as well. Lower the difficulty and make the game easier for yourself, rather than joining those who, out of hatred for the combat system, miss out on this gem entirely.

Beluga

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Workaround for 0x11CD without disabling SAC

So from one day to another the game suddenly doesn't start anymore and you get the error "0x11CD", because Windows Smart App Control (SAC) blocks the games executable. In the following guide I will show you, how to workaround the error without disabling SA...

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Simon, The Divergent Star Strategy Guide

This guide shows a low-parry strategy for defeating Simon, The Divergent Star, allowing the fight to be completed in roughly 4 minutes. Simon opens the battle with “Simon attacks at light speed,” a multi-hit sequence consisting of either 10 or 19 consecuti

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Ancient Sanctuary, Forgotten Battlefield... 100 % Checklists for All Locations in Expedition 33!

100 % items, weapons, pictos, tints Location Checklists for every Area, Location or Level in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33!

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – PlayStation Button Prompts

This guide explains how to force PlayStation (PS4/PS5) button prompts to appear in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by editing the game’s configuration files.

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Simon NG + 1 No Hit, Only Parry

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CHROMATIC LAMPMASTER (No Damage) - Verso Solo

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