Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive will not chase fan expectations with its subsequent sport. An organization official mentioned as a lot in a latest interview, whereas acknowledging that the upcoming venture will profit from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in multiple approach.
Launched final April, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 turned into one of 2025’s defining hits, sweeping a number of award ceremonies and clearing 5 million gross sales in its first six months available on the market. French developer Sandfall Interactive not too long ago confirmed it has began preliminary work on its subsequent title.
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Parrying in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a exact artwork, however one participant clearly has mastered it throughout an eight-hour-long boss battle.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Dev Needs To Maintain Following Its Instincts
In a brand new interview with Edge magazine, Sandfall co-founder and chief working officer François Meurisse conceded that “there’s a little bit of stress” that the French studio is feeling following the immense success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Nonetheless, he referred to as it “not so necessary,” stressing that the crew is adamant to maintain doing issues the way in which it did to date, by taking the time to discover concepts that excite them. Lead author Jennifer Svedberg-Yen echoed that view, saying Sandfall will hold being guided by “our personal private style,” symbolically calling that the developer’s “North Star.”
Elaborating on this sentiment, Svedberg-Yen described herself as a “little bit of a individuals pleaser,” suggesting that following her personal recommendation could not at all times be simple now that Sandfall has hundreds of thousands of followers and is due to this fact going through vital expectations. On the identical time, she made it clear that she understands the dangers of compromising artistic path, noting she has seen too many books, TV exhibits, and different media lose their id by making an attempt to please everybody. “We have to belief our instincts and proceed to belief the imaginative and prescient behind the studio,” Svedberg-Yen concluded.
Meurisse frames Sandfall’s subsequent venture as constructing from a stronger beginning line, with a extra skilled and assured crew. Each his and Svedberg-Yen’s remarks largely align with what Sandfall CEO Guillaume Broche not too long ago mentioned in regards to the upcoming venture, stating that the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer wants to make another “artsy” game. Whereas not a lot is thought in regards to the venture itself, Sandfall has beforehand signaled it desires to make a sequel that is nonetheless set in the identical universe. The way in which Broche defined it, Clair Obscur is the deliberate franchise identify, and Expedition 33 was merely one of many tales that the studio needed to inform. Precisely what form future tales will inform and the way they’ll relate to Expedition 33 remains to be up within the air. Based mostly on what little Sandfall has shared thus far, it’s doable that Clair Obscur will find yourself being an anthology collection, not not like Closing Fantasy, one in every of its most important inspirations.
We have to belief our instincts and proceed to belief the imaginative and prescient behind the studio.
The Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer recently signaled it was not planning to get much bigger anytime quickly. Whereas the sport’s great success allowed it a stage of economic safety that will make a big enlargement doable, co-founder and lead programmer Tom Guillermin sees Sandfall’s present crew as “simply the best dimension” for making an formidable turn-based RPG, having mentioned as a lot in an August 2025 interview. On condition that plan and the truth that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took 5 to 6 years to develop, Sandfall’s subsequent title could comply with an analogous timeline, probably releasing round 2030 or 2031, nicely throughout the subsequent console era.
As a thank-you to followers, Sandfall launched a large free DLC for Expedition 33 in December 2025, including a brand new playable space referred to as Verso’s Drafts, a photograph mode, further costumes, new music, and a number of other exceedingly difficult boss fights. There’s at the moment no official phrase on whether or not extra content material is deliberate for the sport, or if the studio will now absolutely concentrate on its subsequent venture.
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April 24, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Sturdy Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence
- Developer(s)
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Sandfall Interactive
- Writer(s)
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Kepler Interactive
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