Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's main story is 30 hours long, with side content doubling that time to 60 hours.

The game draws inspiration from JRPGs like Persona, offering turn-based combat paired with dodging and parrying mechanics.

The title will be released for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, and will launch day one on Game Pass.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has revealed the amount of time it will take for players to reach the credits and to finish all of its side content, with the title's main story around 30 hours in length. A Persona-style turn-based RPG, is part of a very busy April for Xbox, as it shares its release month with Compulsion Games' southern gothic action adventure game South of Midnight, also launching day one on Game Pass. Additionally, Xbox is bringing two of its best first-party games of the generation, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Forza Horizon 5, to PlayStation on April 16 and 29, respectively.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is one of the more unique 2025 games in premise alone. A new IP from an all-new French development studio, Sandfall Interactive, Expedition 33 takes players on an odyssey through its Belle Époque world with the goal of stopping the Paintress, a godlike entity who, every year, Thanos-snaps everybody in the world of a certain age with the stroke of her brush. Expedition 33 is heavily inspired by the turn-based combat of JRPG franchises such as Atlus' Persona and Shin Megami Tensei. However, Sandfall is looking to make Expedition 33's combat more enticing to action game fans by giving players the ability to actively dodge and parry during combat.