Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Already 20% Off on PS5, Xbox and PC in the UK

While these terms slashes could beryllium owed to an effort to undercut The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered — which released conscionable 2 days agone and volition arguably devour into its subordinate basal — Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is simply a captious darling that's good worthy your wealth successful its ain right, adjacent astatine afloat price.

A 30-to-60-hour single-player game, Clair Obscur is an ambitious rotation connected the turn-based RPG genre wherever you play arsenic a radical of expeditioners questing to termination the Paintress—a peculiar god-like being who has been dilatory decimating the quality colonisation of the Belle Époque France-inspired Lumiere, with an yearly genocide called "the gommage".

As good arsenic the emblematic premix of turn-based mechanics RPG players would travel to expect, gameplay has besides been intertwined with real-time dodge and cinematic parry mechanics. With a unsocial story, chiseled design, and 1 of the champion gaming soundtracks to boot, Sandfall Interactive took inspiration from JRPGs—like Persona & Final Fantasy —and adapted it into the occidental benignant whilst making their ain stamp connected the genre.

Currently sitting astatine 92 connected Metacritic, plentifulness of reviewers crossed the gaming abstraction person felt the same. What's adjacent much awesome is that that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is really Sandfall Interactive's archetypal ever game—made up of conscionable a tiny squad of 30 to boot.

The crippled is besides disposable connected Game Pass arsenic a day-one launch. So, if you determine to effort it retired connected the work oregon bargain 1 of the deals agone truthful you tin ain it—you'll beryllium supporting 1 of the champion caller studios successful gaming and getting a Game of the Year contender-level acquisition successful return, each astatine the aforesaid time.

Ben Williams – IGN freelance contributor with implicit 10 years of acquisition covering gaming, tech, film, TV, and anime. Follow him connected Twitter/X @BenLevelTen.

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Apr 25, 2025 8:54 am