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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Sandfall Interactive · Kepler Interactive

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Quick read

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is an authored turn-based RPG with spectacle combat. A painted campaign. The party walks a France that is already fading, and a parry is a brushstroke.

What kind of game is it?

Campaign RPG with turn-based fights that ask you to time a parry. You walk a painted world, you watch a cutscene, you finish a chapter. This is a story you inhabit.

Who is it for?

For players who like a painted world they walk, then a turn they parry.

How it plays
Loop
Action combat
Sessions
Long sessions
Progression
Campaign
Players
Single-player
Structure
Linear
Tone
Epic · Challenging

Game DNA

What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.

  • Progression80

    Estimate

  • Social18

    Estimate

Key Steam facts

Steam store figures, checked 17 Aug 2026.

Release
released

2025-04-24

Review score
95.3%

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Steam positive percent.

Review count
275,848

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Store price
€49.99

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Languages
20
Demo
No
Early Access
No
Players
Single-player

How many people play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33?

Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.

Estimated copies
6.9M – 15M

Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.

All-time peak players
144,901

Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.

Average players, Aug 2026
5,356

Peak that month: 9,375.

Median playtime
38.5 h

Half of 300 recent reviewers played 21.5–68.8 h. 1% under 2 h.

Players over time

Apr 2025: 66,998 average, 120,344 peakMay 2025: 63,898 average, 144,901 peakJun 2025: 25,621 average, 66,257 peakJul 2025: 16,462 average, 33,714 peakAug 2025: 11,740 average, 23,184 peakSept 2025: 8,464 average, 18,282 peakOct 2025: 7,596 average, 15,104 peakNov 2025: 13,169 average, 26,136 peakDec 2025: 27,272 average, 56,529 peakJan 2026: 21,482 average, 51,640 peakFeb 2026: 10,474 average, 22,812 peakMar 2026: 7,777 average, 15,129 peakApr 2026: 6,842 average, 13,265 peakMay 2026: 6,713 average, 13,106 peakJun 2026: 5,916 average, 11,151 peakJul 2026: 5,849 average, 11,375 peakAug 2026: 5,356 average, 9,375 peak
Apr 2025Aug 2026

Where the players are

Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.

  • English46%
  • Simplified Chinese15%
  • Russian11%
  • Portuguese (Brazil)6%
  • French4%
  • Turkish3%

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 players also play

Games played for more than an hour in 48 public Steam libraries of recent reviewers. Each one is played by at least 4 of these players and is more common here than across all libraries we read (× how much).

  • Hades38% · ×3.3
  • ELDEN RING46% · ×2.7
  • It Takes Two33% · ×3.8
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition54% · ×2.2
  • Black Myth: Wukong31% · ×4
  • Slay the Spire29% · ×3.4
  • Hollow Knight35% · ×2.6
  • Slay the Spire 221% · ×4
  • Persona 3 Reload15% · ×7.2
  • Cyberpunk 207742% · ×1.9

Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026

What makes it different?

Turn-based fights ask for a timed parry, then a chapter you finish in a world that is already fading.

Core mechanics

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Genre / subgenre

Steam genre: rpg.

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Store price checked 17 Aug 2026.

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