- Platforms
- PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
- Publisher
- Kepler Interactive
- Rating
- M
- Genre
- Turn-Based RPG
- Release date
- April 24, 2025
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a 2025 turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics, developed by Sandfall Interactive and published by Kepler Interactive, released on April 24 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Set in a melancholic world inspired by Belle Époque France, players control a party of six Expeditioners exploring a fantasy landscape to uncover the secrets of a mysterious plague and a shadowy organization. The game features reactive turn-based combat blending real-time inputs, with battles against unique enemies. The main story takes around 30 hours, with an additional 30 hours of side content. It includes updated visuals, English and Japanese voice tracks, and was developed by a team of 30.
James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
Based, 0% woke. (Btw the principal reason why so many leftist media tried to say it’s bad because “lacks of inclusion/DEI” and things like that).
One of the best games I have ever played, and thankfully it was based. Read that before I bought it, and so glad I did.
Played and finished.
Combat: Fun. Paper Mario-inspired.
Art/Music: Beautiful
World/Story: Engaging
Wokeness: No “message” or “representation.” No woke agenda.
If you squint and use your imagination, there are two scenes where two females talk vaguely about “comforting” each other in the past, but both of them have explicit hetero relations in the present (off camera) during the game. This old-fashioned (plausibly deniable) subtext was the closest thing to pandering that I noticed.
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