About the Game
Once a year, the Paintress wakes and paints upon her monolith. Paints her cursed number. And everyone past that age turns to smoke and fades away. Year by year, that number ticks down and more of us are erased. Tomorrow she’ll wake and paint “33.” And tomorrow we depart on our final mission - Destroy the Paintress, so she can never paint death again.
We are Expedition 33.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a ground-breaking turn-based RPG with unique real-time mechanics, making battles more immersive and addictive than ever. Explore a fantasy world inspired by Belle Époque France in which you battle devastating enemies.
Experience the debut game from Sandfall Interactive, fully realized in Unreal Engine 5 with stunning graphics and a heartbreaking soundtrack.
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Expeditioners!
Thank you for all of your reports - the details for the fixes in this patch are written out below:
Update On Sirene Crash
After a thorough internal investigation, the crash that occurred after defeating Sirene can no longer be reproduced on our end. If you keep getting this issue, we’d suggest updating your Windows to the latest version. If the issue persists, please submit a report and we’ll continue investigating.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
Photo Mode
Fixed facial hair of characters being blurred in the Photo Mode on the close distance if Shading was set to Epic.
Fixed an issue in Photo mode that prevented the Inner Cone Angle and Outer Cone Angle options from affecting the shape of the preview light source.
Photo Mode's spotlight and point light display has been modified to improve their visibility
Gameplay
Fixed an issue where loading a save while picking up a journal could cause that journal to disappear permanently and become impossible to collect again.
Missing journals are now also restored retroactively when loading affected saves.
Fixed a soft lock that could occur, during the Chromatic Glissando encounter in Sirene’s Dress level, when a dead expeditioner equipped with Shortcut and Second Chance pictos was swallowed.
Fixed an issue on Gestral Beach where using the Rematch option after losing the volleyball minigame could create a blocked save.
Fixed a visual issue where characters affected by Inverted would not have the correct colour effect applied to their eyes.
Environment
Fixed various environment issues (collisions, misplaced assets, missing or incorrect footsteps SFX) across Verso's Drafts, the World Map, and other levels.
Fixed various lighting issues on Steam Deck in Verso’s Drafts, Endless Tower and Stone Wave Cliffs levels.
As always, thanks for your support and for your reports via the official Typeform - We'll continue monitoring the reports coming in and working on future fixes!
~ The Expedition 33 Team
Bug Fixes & Improvements
Expeditioners, the 1.5.1 hotfix is now live!
Thanks to your reports, we have worked on a number of fixes listed below:
Gameplay
Fixed Monoco’s weapon “Cannaro” being unobtainable from Chromatic Machinapieds
Players who already defeated the boss will automatically receive the weapon in their inventory, unless they started a NG+(+) after that
Fixed Esquim not applying Mark to all enemies when a skill had 0 hits.
Fixed a targeting issue caused by using a Recoat item followed by ‘Retry Battle’, which resulted in the player being unable to target the middle enemy or character.
Fixed a soft-lock when attempting to load a save without hovering any slot while backup saves were displayed.
Fixed upgrade of the weapons to level 34 when spamming Upgrade weapon and change character buttons
Level 34 weapons have been reverted back to level 33
Fixed character being able to use other characters' weapon when quickly switching weapon tabs after changing weapon
Environment
Nerfed the hardest boss in Verso’s Drafts (red lifebuoy) by moving it slightly to make a quest easier.
Fixed various environment issues (collisions, misplaced assets, missing or incorrect footsteps SFX) across Verso's Drafts, the World Map, and other levels.
Audio & Music
Improved environmental ambiances and spatial audio for better immersion in Verso’s Drafts
Enhanced audio mixes for select characters, combos, and finishers
Multiple audio & music issues were resolved, including:
Missing music after defeating new Endless Tower bosses.
Missing subtitle line for Sciel in one of the new cinematics.
Missing Barbapapa status effect SFX when receiving a second stack.
Missing some SFX for Licorne enemy in Verso’s Drafts.
Missing SFX for Paint Cage explosions in Verso's Drafts.
Music and SFX not pausing when opening pause menu during cinematic sequence with slow motion enabled, resulting in audio desynchronization for the remainder of the cinematic sequence
Localization
Fixed various localization issues, including:
Subtitles in Root Of All Evil cinematics disappearing too fast.
Overlapping text in Pictos & Luminas lists.
Autoplay dialogue options swapped when the title is set to LATAM Spanish.
Incorrect text displayed during Flying Manor side quest when the title is set to Vietnamese.
Verso’s skill Phantom Stars displaying HTML in combat when the title is set to Vietnamese.
Other
We are aware of various issues encountered, particularly the one reported by some of you who are having difficulty launching the title on Windows 11.
One of these issues is caused by Windows Security reporting false positives when launching. This has been fixed as part of the v1.5.1 hotfix as of 17:00 CET.
The other issue causing this problem is related to the Windows Smart App Control feature. Turning it off to fix it is not recommended as this will remove the feature permanently from your system. We are investigating this issue and hope to resolve it as soon as possible so we suggest waiting for the next hotfix!
Until then,
Tomorrow comes!
And as always thanks for your support and for your reports via the official Typeform!
~ The Expedition 33 Team
Update 08/01
We've pushed a fix for the soft lock occurring when Braseleur hits the player with orbs during two consecutive enemy turns.
New Content
Verso's Drafts, a new playable environment, taking the characters of Expedition 33 to a brand-new location with new enemy encounters and surprises to discover :)
Located on the World Map, next to Lumière - Accessible from Act III
Esquie’s Underwater ability is required!
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, with more to come!
New costumes for each member of the Expedition, giving even more customization options for players throughout their adventure
New boss battles for late-game players to overcome in the Endless Tower - They are variations of iconic bosses from the main game, designed to be even more challenging
Added new Luminas and Weapons
Added the "Old Key" quest item to the final area of the game - Previously obtainable only during the Prologue, this addition gives players a second chance to collect all journals within a single playthrough
New Features
Added Photo Mode with plenty of settings and options for players to get creative with while capturing your favourite moments from the game, accessible at any time from the pause menu!
Added Lumina Sets feature, allowing players to save up to 50 different lumina loadouts for adapting to plenty of different fighting tactics at any moment
Added Abandon Battle option in the pause menu which can now be opened in battle
Added HUD Scale setting, allowing players to adjust the size of in-game HUD elements from 80% to 120%
Added FSR 4 support, including AMD temporal upscaling for sharper visuals and Frame Generation for smoother gameplay on compatible GPUs
Added new filters for Pictos and Luminas and improved the UI
Added input remapping for controller
Handheld PC improvements
The game is now certified on Steam Deck and ROG Xbox Ally!
Global improvement of text legibility
Fixed multiple fog and lighting issues:
Overly intense effects during the Flying Manor boss fight (which also impacted some cinematics)
Overexposed areas in the Visages
Overly dark areas in the Endless Tower
Fixed FPS being capped at 30 on Steam Deck
VSync can now be properly disabled in the settings when playing on Steam Deck
Graphic settings are now adjusted for Steam Deck users
Improved first-time setup flow:
Controller input is now supported in installation wizards (no longer touchscreen-only)
External controllers now switch seamlessly with the Steam Deck controls
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where using Battle Retry after a cinematic or automatic trigger could spawn the player out of the world if the last save was created in a different location
The playtime displayed on save files now accurately reflects total playtime, including time spent on Game Overs
(Note: this fix does not retroactively update existing save files.)Fixed inventory behaviour so that sort order now persists after closing the game menu
Fixed issue preventing Intel XeSS Frame Generation setting from being accessible on PC Game Pass
Fixed an issue where the usage of particular diacritic marks (e.g. ^, ~, ´, `) in Windows is blocked after launching the title
Fixed Breaking Death always breaking all enemies when the character dies, it should only break the enemy that killed the character - As a result, it shouldn’t work when the character kills themself anymore
Characters' turn order during a First Strike, triggered by attacking an enemy on the map, now correctly respects characters' Speed
Fixed Boucharo giving +150% Critical chance instead of +50% Critical chance
Fixed some Luminas giving unintended hidden +10% damage:
Sweet Kill
Teamwork
Dead Energy II
First Strike and others
We are still working on adding more fixes and additions to the list of languages to include even more! So stay tuned for those :)
In the meantime, we hope you have fun!!
~ The Expedition 33 Team
Expeditioners,
We have rolled out a hotfix to Steam which fixes the following:
Bug Fixes and localization issues
Fixed the mouse sensitivity issue, should now work as intended;
Fixed an issue with localization for vertical/Horizontal sensitivity in languages other than English;
Fixed an issue where Simon's attacks cannot be counterattacked and his second phase issue when sending the reserve team.
Thank you all for your continued support.
If you have any new issues or want to report a bug, please continue using this form for us.
Tomorrow Comes ~ The Expedition 33 Team.
We have put this live on Steam -- it will show as Changelist 56323 on the menu screen.
Other platforms will follow in our larger hotfix update soon, as they require additional verification.
We are still working on a variety of fixes and optimisations, but were able to quickly get this live on Steam before the weekend. Stay tuned for further updates next week on upcoming patches.
Tomorrow comes.
~ Expedition 33 Team
We have just rolled out a patch to Steam which fixes and changes the following:
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a soft lock caused by stunning the Grown Bourgeon right after it eats an Expedition Member
- Fixed an issue where upgraded Tints that were not restocked to full capacity could be lost after returning to the menu
- Replaced a placeholder texture with the correct visual asset
- Fixed rare soft lock issues on the World Map:
Player could get stuck near a cliff north of the Ancient Sanctuary
Player could get stuck in a specific area in the Flying Waters level - Fixed an issue where a Glaise could spawn in an idle state if Monoco defeated an enemy with Glaise’s Earthquakes skill
Localization
This will show as Changelist 56289 on the menu screen.
We are still working on a series of fixes and improvements for the coming weeks, and we will share more on that very soon. Until then!
Tomorrow Comes
~ The Expedition 33 Team
We have deployed a fix that should mean that those of you experiencing crashes upon starting the game, who had their Steam Overlay disabled, can now play as intended.
To ensure it works for you, please remember to Verify your Game Files in Steam.
Thank you for your patience this morning, afternoon, or evening - wherever you are in the world :)
Tomorrow comes
~ The Sandfall Team
Current Release
Build 23765773
Uploaded Aug 05, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
Expedition33_Steam.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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