Expedition 33 Hits 5 MILLION Sales! Free DLC + SEQUEL Announced!
Pirateation X says Clear Obscure Expedition 33 is getting a free update featuring a new dungeon, enemies, bosses, and costumes. The game has sold 5 million copies. 5 million copies sounds like a lot of games. It’s It’s really not that many when you think about it. especially like uh I don’t know like Ghost of Tsushima is 14 to 16 million. I know it’s been out a lot longer than this game, but still, you would think that this game with the uh notoriety it’s gotten and being on basically every platform outside of Nintendo that this game would sell more than 5 billion. Still an incredible number, but it’s such a great game. I kind of thought it would be more in a weird way. It’s a great number, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a it’s something I’m like, man, this game, if you haven’t played it yet, play it. It’s really, really good. This is from Clare Obscure Expedition 33. They said, “In April, we released Clare Obscure Expedition 33.” Five months later, we’ve sold 5 million copies worldwide. 1 million copies a month. That’s pretty good. That’s pretty good. Since then, your artwork, your stories, your cosplays, and your endless creativity has been loved and appreciated by all of us. And for that, we cannot thank you enough. This is like the perfect storm of talented developers making a perfect game at an affordable price and completely taking the wind out of the sales of the AAA game industry. They they got to be looking at this hating it. uh from Sanfal Interactive quote tweeting it. They said, “Last April, we released Clarabition 33 and here we are 5 months later with 5 million copies sold worldwide. Since the beginning, our team has never stopped marveling at your fan arts, your testimonials, your cosplays, and your infinite creativity. And for all that, we are infinitely grateful to you. Thank you.” This is from Claire Obscure Expedition 33 saying, “Thank you from Sandfall Games. We’ve been working on bringing you a few updates. Some of the highlights being new playable environment, new late game boss battles, new costumes. Read more. And I brought this up here. I will say just someone who beat the game earlier this year, my group was extremely OP, so it was like very easy to beat most bosses towards the end of the game. I worry that any kind of new updates and stuff like that would still be easy to defeat them, but if you do the new game plus start over from scratch, it it would still be a challenge. So there is there is that on exhibition 33.com they said thank you from sandfall interactive expeditioners in April we released cla obscure exhibition 33. 5 months later we’ve sold 5 million copies worldwide. On top of that, Claire Obscure Expedition 33’s original soundtrack composed. What a great soundtrack, by the way, composed by Laurian Testard has now reached over 333 million track streams since its release. I I’m one of those people that has played quite a bit of it. I listen to it in my car a lot. It’s such a great soundtrack. I still like still to this day, I’m not even playing the game anymore, I still go back to listening to this. It’s so great. We’ve been completely blown away by the constant support from so many of you. Your artwork, your stories, your cosplays, and your endless creativity has been loved and appreciated by all of us. We could not be more grateful from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you. And then we get to the good stuff. Upcoming update. To celebrate this milestone, we’re working on a game update for all platforms that will include several additions and updates. And it sounds like, I don’t know if they say it here or not, but it sounds like it’s going to be free for a game update. A new playable environment taking the characters of Expedition 33 to a brand new location with new enemy encounters and surprises to discover. Challenges, new boss battles for late game players to overcome. Oh, so they might actually be really tough. New costumes for each member of the expedition, giving even more customization options for players throughout their adventure. New text and UI game localizations for Czech, Ukrainian, Latin America, Spanish, Turkish, all these other places. Great. And more to come. That’s not it. There they got more. This is This is how you do it, by the way. This is how you do it. You do a great game and you do the fan service to be like, “Wow, the support’s been incredible. We’re going to do you guys a solid and we’re going to put even more work into this game and just give it to you for free. Everyone’s loving the game. Win-win. And even more people are going to want to jump into this environment and be a part of it. Oh, this is a good dev team that cares about adding more content to the game for free. I’m in. This is amazing. My only um push back on this, I know it’s gonna sound silly to say, please get to work on a sequel. Please, I need it. I need a sequel. I know they already announced that they plan on making this uh a series. Please, I can’t wait. Let’s do it. Let’s do it. Uh 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 now now we’re really looking forward to bringing you more of what we’re working on for those who come after. Thank you. Oh, I love how they ended that too. For those who come after. Such a good game. Such a good game. Uh back to Pirate Nation. Robin says, “Excuse me? What are you trying to make my day? Because you just made my day. 5 million sold. See that UB and counter punch. That’s how you announce game metrics. Uh, nice. If this doesn’t win game of the year, I’ll call I I remember was it was it Hypnotic? I think I think it was Hypnotic. Let me let me see if I can find this. Hold on a second. So, for those that don’t know, I have an ongoing bet with Hypnotic that Clare Obscure Expedition 33 would win game of the year at Jeff Keelley’s Game Awards. Hypnotic has taken that bet and now we have added to the bet where he has bet that Ghost Tang will win for reasons of the game industry and the industry shills and everyone that votes on it is going to want to vote for that game. And he does have a point, but I still think this year it’s too big to fail. Expedition 33 is just that good of a game. It really is like there were no flaws. It was like the perfect game the entire way through. Every part of it was art. It was perfect. It was perfect. Hypnotic says, “Massive W. I hope I’m wrong in my prediction that you guys will be snubbed at the game awards for game of the year.” And I replied with, “I had to. I had to.” U. Um, but yeah, shout out again to Sandfall Interactive and Claire Obscure Expedition 33 for selling 5 million copies. That is that is so great. You’ll love to see it. I said, uh, one of the best games I’ve ever played. Huge congratulations to you all and thank you for the epic adventure. Atrea is coming in. Get in the lab and make the sequel. Damn it. I mean, that kind of that kind of sounds like me to be honest. He actually said it out loud. Your short says, “Huge congrats to you, Claire’s Gear Expedition 33. Don’t let Legacy Shield Media rob you of the title of game of the year. You deserve it for all the right reasons. Respect.” Like, I’m telling you guys, by the way, too, there’s I know there’s a lot of games out there and that survey that just came out, people saying on average, the the average gamer buys two games per year. That’s the average. Like yes, obviously people buy more than that, but the casuals out there, all the people that are just like, “Oh yeah, I play games here and there.” If you have not played this game, there’s nobody there’s nobody. I have not seen anyone yet play this game and come away from it being like, “Oh, yeah, I didn’t really like it.” I I mean, I’m sure it happens, but that that’s kind of like a you problem. This game is so good. Uh, absolute, you know. You know, I love that one. Uh, Red Foreman says, “You guys made the game of the decade.” Yep. Yep. No matter what happens this year, Clear Obscure Expedition 33 is game of the year. I don’t think you realize how much we appreciate a game like yours in these times. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And a great point. By the way, in the face of everything that’s happening in the entire industry, we have a game that gets championed by industry shills, gamers, and everything in between. casuals, normies, everyone loves this game. It’s It’s the perfect game for people that want a good story, a good challenge, uh a fun experience the entire way through. The interactive battle system is groundbreaking. Groundbreaking. In 2025, there’s a battle system where I’m just like, I’ve never experienced this before in my life, and I love it. They they thought of something new, and it was so perfect. I said it while I was playing the game on stream. I’m like, when they were developing this game, they must have been like, “Oh man, we got something really good here. We can’t wait to share this with people because we know this is going to resonate.” That must have been tough to hold back until it launched. But what a great game. Play it if you haven’t already, but Expedition 33, 5 million sold in five months. Maybe, by the way, before I end it, may maybe that’s why I thought it would sell more is because I feel like it’s been out for longer. It’s only been out for five months. Damn. I I guess uh time doesn’t go by sometimes. But yeah, this game is destined to be lifetime sales. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s 25 million lifetime. Like that’s not even crazy to say, especially if it starts going on sale for 20 bucks. Everyone’s going to be buying this game. It’s so good. Uh but yeah, I will leave that one there. Congratulations again to Sam Fall, though. I think it’s funny, too, because people are like, “Oh, all you do is hate on games and look for reasons to not like them.” It’s like, “No, we look for games that we want to play and we want to champion those games. We found one. More of this, please.” And by more of this, I mean original stuff. Make cool stuff that’s new that hasn’t been done before. Do that. Don’t just fall in line for your shareholders.
Massive news for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 fans! The game has officially sold over 5 million copies, and the developers just announced a free update featuring a brand-new dungeon, enemies, bosses, and costumes.
But that’s not all — the studio confirmed that work on the sequel has already begun!
This is one of the biggest indie success stories of the year, and it’s only getting started. I break down what’s coming in the update, what to expect in the sequel, and why Expedition 33 continues to dominate 2025.
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– https://x.com/expedition33/status/1975924077496852782
– https://x.com/SandfallGames/status/1975925724373512382
– https://x.com/expedition33/status/1975909183578058930
– https://x.com/expedition33/status/1975924077496852782
– https://www.expedition33.com/post/thank-you-from-sandfall-interactive