Hello future Expeditioners! We’re Sandfall Interactive, a staff of round 30 passionate builders based mostly in Montpellier, France and we’re thrilled to disclose our mission to you immediately: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, coming to Xbox Collection X|S subsequent yr and accessible day one with Xbox Recreation Go. We poured our hearts and souls into creating the sport of our desires, so we sincerely hope you’ll get pleasure from our reveal trailer just under.
The Paintress’ Cycle of Loss of life
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, or simply Expedition 33, is a brand-new reactive turn-based RPG that can transport you to a lovely, surrealist new world impressed by France’s La Belle Epoque — a interval well-known for its beautiful and lavish contributions to the nation’s world-renowned tradition of artwork.
Expedition 33 opens in the town of Lumière, the final metropolis of humanity, the place everybody is aware of the age when they may die. As soon as a yr, the Paintress wakes and paints a quantity on her Monolith. This quantity represents an age — the age of everybody who will quickly be erased. 12 months by yr, this quantity ticks down, extra folks die, and previous age isn’t so previous anymore.
Quickly the Paintress will wake once more and paints 33, condemning everybody of that age to a mild demise. However with just one yr left to reside, the members of Expedition 33 embark on a quest to destroy the Paintress.
The Expedition’s Hopeless Quest
You’ll play as Gustave and his fellow Expeditioners on their unattainable quest to finish the Paintress’ cycle of demise. Your journey will take you thru a huge and exquisite fantasy world, the place you’ll battle lethal adversaries, befriend fabled creatures, and uncover traces of the Expeditioners who got here earlier than you.
Alongside the best way, you’ll develop your bond together with your fellow Expeditioners and piece collectively their private tales of coronary heart and heartache. Collectively, you’ll attempt to unravel the thriller of the Paintress – a determined and seemingly hopeless enterprise that has eluded generations of Expeditioners.
Our Reactive Flip-Primarily based Battle System
At Sandfall, we’re large followers of turn-based RPGs, motion video games, and Souls-likes. For Expedition 33 we wished to create one thing distinctive that mixes the depth of a turn-based sport with the joys of executing a dodge or a good parry. And so was born our distinctive reactive turn-based battle system.
Every member of the Expedition has a distinct playstyle with their very own distinctive mechanic. It is possible for you to to additional customise every character’s stat development, expansive talent tree, and equipment alongside a wide selection of learnable passive traits, providing limitless alternatives to fine-tune your most well-liked methods. We are able to’t wait to see what loopy builds you’ll give you.
However technique alone received’t suffice. To achieve the Paintress additionally, you will must grasp the protection techniques. Throughout the enemy’s flip, you possibly can dodge, parry, or soar above enemy assaults in actual time, permitting you to land devastating counterattacks. Mastering enemy patterns will guarantee your victory and who is aware of, perhaps you’ll even end the battle with out taking any injury and earn further expertise?
Moreover, the free-aim system permits you to shoot at enemies’ weak factors, providing you a substantial benefit towards the toughest foes or flying enemies.
We imagine that whether or not you’re an motion RPG fan or a turn-based fan (or each), you’ll benefit from the distinctive mixture that Expedition 33 affords. We’ve targeted on creating a difficult, rewarding fight system that can make each battle an enthralling encounter.
Expedition 33 has been developed utilizing Unreal Engine 5 to deliver unbelievable constancy and exquisite graphics on Xbox Collection X|S. You’ll discover a fascinating realm and wander by means of breathtaking landscapes. From the somber, Paris-inspired metropolis of Lumière, to the beautiful Island of Visages, and to the haunting Forgotten Battlefield discovering secrets and techniques and hidden quests alongside the best way.
We are able to’t wait to indicate you extra of our debut sport, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and we hope you’re excited to study extra about its world, characters, and gameplay. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will probably be launched on Xbox Collection X|S in 2025 and will probably be accessible day one with Xbox Recreation Go – you possibly can wishlist the sport immediately on the Xbox Retailer. We’ll be revealing extra particulars and updates over the following few months, so make sure you observe us at @Expedition33 to remain updated.