Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is one of the biggest and most acclaimed releases of 2025, as evident by the glowing reviews and success it’s seen since releasing in April. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 added even more accolades to its name at The Game Awards, and while accepting the grand prize at the closing of this year’s show, Sandfall’s CEO and Creative Director Guillaume Broche casually announced that a previously promised update was live.
Bringing a fresh twist to classic RPG mechanics along with a stunning world and affecting story, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 captured the attention of the gaming world. Following this reception, players were hoping for more content to come. Earlier in October, developer Sandfall Interactive revealed that sales for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 had crossed 5 million units, marking an incredible achievement for any game, let alone the debut title from a new studio. To celebrate that milestone, Sandfall announced that a free update would indeed be forthcoming as a thank you to fans for their support, though it did not provide a release window at the time. Clair Obscur also had a major presence at The Game Awards 2025, winning a whopping total of nine out of its 12 nominations, including among them: Best RPG, Best Indie, Best Art Direction, Best Score/Music, and the coveted Game of the Year. And while many were expecting it to deservedly take home a number of these, Sandfall proved that it had one more trick up its sleeve to cap it all off.
Clair Obscur Director Says There Are ‘Still A Few Things’ Players Haven’t Discovered Yet
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director Guillaume Broche reveals there are still some secrets that players haven’t found yet.
Game of the Year Winner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Shadow Drops New Free Content During The Game Awards 2025
After various Sandfall studio members and artists came onto the stage at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles to receive the numerous awards that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 garnered throughout the night at this year’s ceremony, Broche delivered a heartfelt acceptance speech for being given the show’s highest honor. He thanked the entire Sandfall team as well as all the fans who made it such a resounding success. Then, almost as if it were an afterthought, he mentioned that the update was live on the spot. This certainly came as a welcome surprise and surely satisfies players who were excitedly looking forward to the game getting further content.
All Details About Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s Shadow Dropped Update at The Game Awards 2025
Sandfall had previously outlined what this free update would entail on the game’s official site in its original announcement, and players can now experience Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with the all-new content, which includes:
- Additional costumes and more weapons for Clair Obscur‘s party members along with further customization options.
- An entirely new dungeon location populated with new enemy types along with other “surprises.”
- Difficult new boss encounters geared towards challenging players in the late-game stage.
- Implementing localization for Spanish, Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American, Turkish, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese languages.
Previous speculation based on the earlier image that Sandfall had teased for the update pointed to the possibility that it would focus on Verso and Esquie’s earlier adventures in Lumiere, before the arrival of the rest of the main cast. With the new content now out in the wild following Clair Obscur: Expedition 33′s domination of The 2025 Game Awards, fans no longer have to wait, and can dive back into its intricate world to see for themselves what fresh encounters and characters, intriguing narrative threads, and other surprises that Sandfall has added to it. By shadow-dropping Clair Obscur‘s free update during TGA 2025 as a kind of victory lap, Sandfall has assuredly cemented its status as one of the most beloved and player-friendly studios around, and breathed new life into its debut game that had already captured the hearts and minds of fans around the world.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Released
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April 24, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence
- Developer(s)
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Sandfall Interactive
- Publisher(s)
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Kepler Interactive
