Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Worth it · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99, a BANGER if it drops to $35.13.
- Length
- 29.3h
- Value
- $1.36/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB / AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB / Intel Arc A380 6 GB, 55 GB of storage. Windows only.
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
What drives the score
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $39.99, set in October 2025. 14 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $39.99 at 20 percent off matches the lowest price in the record. $35.13 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
This sale is doing real work. 79 at list, 83 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY VI ($10.79, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition ($34.99, scores 71).
Steam's global achievement data puts 40 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 24 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 4,443 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 29.3 hours. Doing everything runs 69, 2.3 times as long.
277,474 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
88% start to 40% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
27.9K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
very good but slightly overglazed...really good though...maybe i dont like french music that much..
One of best written story with great graphics, I enjoyed playing this game from the start till end.
Turn based games are boring. Except this one. It is spectacular and a must play.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1903340/clair-obscur-expedition-33The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 4, price as of Sep 23.
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