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 undertaking to you at present: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, coming to Xbox Collection X|S subsequent 12 months and obtainable day one with Xbox Sport 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 stupendous, 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 within the metropolis of Lumière, the final metropolis of humanity, the place everybody is aware of the age when they’ll die. Every year, 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 12 months, 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 delicate loss of life. However with just one 12 months left to dwell, 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 inconceivable quest to finish the Paintress’ cycle of loss of life. Your journey will take you thru an unlimited 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 way in which, you’ll develop your bond along with your fellow Expeditioners and piece collectively their private tales of coronary heart and heartache. Collectively, you’ll try 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 an ideal parry. And so was born our distinctive reactive turn-based battle system.
Every member of the Expedition has a definite playstyle with their very own distinctive mechanic. It is possible for you to to additional customise every character’s stat development, expansive ability tree, and equipment alongside a variety of learnable passive traits, providing limitless alternatives to fine-tune your most popular methods. We are able to’t wait to see what loopy builds you’ll give you.
However technique alone gained’t suffice. To succeed in the Paintress additionally, you will must grasp the protection techniques. Through the enemy’s flip, you’ll be able to 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, possibly you’ll even end the battle with out taking any harm and earn extra expertise?
Moreover, the free-aim system means that you can shoot at enemies’ weak factors, providing you a considerable benefit towards the toughest foes or flying enemies.
We imagine that whether or not you might be an motion RPG fan or a turn-based fan (or each), you’ll benefit from the distinctive mixture that Expedition 33 provides. We’ve centered on making a difficult, rewarding fight system that can make each battle an enthralling encounter.
Expedition 33 has been developed utilizing Unreal Engine 5 to convey unbelievable constancy and exquisite graphics on Xbox Collection X|S. You’ll discover a fascinating realm and wander by way 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 way in which.
We are able to’t wait to point out 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 can be launched on Xbox Collection X|S in 2025 and can be obtainable day one with Xbox Sport Go – you’ll be able to wishlist the sport at present on the Xbox Retailer. We’ll be revealing extra particulars and updates over the following few months, so be sure you comply with us at @Expedition33 to remain updated.
