Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has now sold over 5 million copies and the developers at Sandfall Interactive are celebrating that milestone by teasing a free new update for the critically acclaimed RPG. When it arrives, the mini-expansion will add new locations and bosses, giving players fresh targets for their increasingly broken builds.
Sandfall hasn’t announced a release date yet for the new Clair Obscur content but confirmed it won’t be paid and should be available to players across PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC at the same time. Here’s everything fans can expect from the free update:
- A new, playable environment, taking the characters of Expedition 33 to a brand-new location with new enemy encounters and surprises to discover.
- Challenging, new boss battles for late-game players to overcome.
- New costumes for each member of the Expedition, giving even more customization options for players throughout their adventure.
- 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.
- Plus, even more surprises fans can look forward to.
“The response to our game has been nothing short of incredible,” creative director Guillaume Broche said in a press release. “We spent years working on our dream project, and to know it has resonated with fans around the world in such a powerful way is both wonderful and overwhelming. We’re so grateful to our fans for their love of the world we created, for sharing their own fan art and music covers, for wearing their best Baguette cosplays to conventions, and for being incredibly supportive of our game. We hope the update we’re 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.”
On many people’s shortlist for GOTY, Clair Obscur arrived with little fanfare back near the start of 2025 and quickly made waves thanks to its great storytelling and excellent twist on traditional turn-based combat. Sandfall Interactive’s developers have been on a victory tour ever since, including visiting a number of top game companies in Japan like Square Enix. In addition to the update, we already know the team is planning to work on a sequel. Now all we need is confirmation that it’ll come to Switch 2 at some point.
