Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Update Explained: New Location, Extra Late-Game Bosses, and More

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is not easing up. The stylish French JRPG just blew past 5 million copies sold, and the team at Sandfall Interactive is celebrating by cooking up a big update: a whole new place to explore, fresh late-game boss fights, new outfits for the squad, more languages, and a few secrets they are still keeping under wraps. No timing yet, but it is in the works for every platform.

Here is the quick version of what Sandfall and publisher Kepler Interactive confirmed in their new press release:

• New playable environment: a brand-new location that sends the Expedition 33 crew somewhere we have not seen before, with new enemy encounters and other surprises tucked in.
• Late-game boss battles: labeled "challenging" and aimed at players who have already cleared the current endgame. It is not clear if these fights are tied to the new area, and we do not know yet if they top the difficulty of the current final bosses — but I would not bet against it.
• Costumes for everyone: every party member gets new looks, if you can pry yourself away from the beloved Baguette getups.
• More languages: text and UI localizations are coming in Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Ukrainian, Czech, and Latin American Spanish.
• Plus: the studio is teasing "even more" surprises it is not ready to reveal yet.

On timing, the update is actively in development for all platforms. That is the whole window for now — no date, no season. The good news: it sounds sizeable. The buildcrafting crowd can finally give poor Simon a breather and theorycraft against a new punching bag.

Sandfall’s creative director Guillaume Broche sounds appropriately stunned by the reception.

"The response to our game has been nothing short of incredible... We hope the update we are working on will act as a 'thank you' to those fans for their support — please be patient while our team work hard on bringing you something worth the wait."

As for me, I am quietly rooting for a new Gestral Game or two tucked into this thing. Yes, they can be maddening. That is the point.

One last bit of inside baseball I love: the game’s lead writer hadn’t played video games before joining the project — and now she is speedrunning the classics, with Platinum trophies in Elden Ring, God of War, and God of War Ragnarok. Not a bad pivot.