Independent studio Sandfall Interactive and publisher Kepler Interactive have announced that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold more than five million copies worldwide since its release in April 2025 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
The critically acclaimed turn-based RPG has become one of 2025’s breakout successes, also achieving major milestones in music. The game’s original soundtrack, composed by Lorien Testard, has accumulated over 333 million streams across digital platforms and spent 10 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical and Classical Crossover album charts. It also reached No. 1 on iTunes Top 100 Albums in nine countries, including France, home of the Montpellier-based development team.
To celebrate these milestones, Sandfall Interactive announced that a major free update is now in development for all platforms. The update, planned as a “thank you” to the community, will feature new content and quality-of-life improvements, including:
- A new playable environment with additional enemy encounters and hidden secrets.
- New late-game boss battles designed for veteran players.
- New costumes for every member of the Expedition, offering expanded customization options.
- New text and UI localizations in Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian, bringing the total supported languages to 19.
- Additional surprises to be revealed closer to launch.
Guillaume Broche, Creative Director of Expedition 33 at Sandfall Interactive, had this to say:
The response to our game has been nothing short of incredible. We spent years working on our dream project, and to know it has resonated with fans around the world in such a powerful way is both wonderful and overwhelming.
We’re so grateful to our fans for their love of the world we created, for sharing their own fan art and music covers, for wearing their best Baguette cosplays to conventions, and for being incredibly supportive of our game. We hope the update we’re working on will act as a ‘thank you’ to those fans for their support – please be patient while our team work hard on bringing you something worth the wait.
The update will launch for free on all platforms, with a release date to be announced. Sandfall Interactive advises fans to stay tuned to the game’s official social channels for further details.
In our review of the game, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 “is a rare triumph for such a small studio,” according to Erickson Melchor. “The devs at Sandfall Interactive aimed for the stars, and they delivered a game that JRPG fans have always wanted from a Western studio. I can’t recommend this game enough.”
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is available now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
