Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Worth it · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jan 2025.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.36/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 281,949
- Critics
- 91 players 4 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% RPG
Holding it back: Monetization, Cost per hour
Why
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameOne alert at $34.94 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 29.3h
- To 100%
- 68.9h 2.4x the story
- Finish
- 40% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 55
Price and sales
- Sales
- 16 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $39.99 October 2025
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4,289 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
88% start to 40% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
16 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. $34.94 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. 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 ($17.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats FINAL FANTASY IV ($17.99, scores 81).
More about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
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 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 4,475 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, 2.4 times as long.
281,949 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Best contemporary J(F?)RPG along with Persona 5. Haven't enjoyed a JRPG this much since FF7-FF9. Lives up to the hype.
2 more reviews
A moment of silence for Sandfall Interactive, whose next game will be judged based on this one...
Absolutely phenomenal game. Up there with the best of the best of the best. Act 1 & 2 - straight 10/10 zero notes. Storyline is great, progression is fluid, and the world building is immaculate. Act 3 - gameplay falters a bit when the world opens up and there's no clear indication of enemy or zone power levels. It absolutely sticks the landing with the ending to erase any of those doubts though. Oh yeah, Lorien...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1903340/clair-obscur-expedition-33Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.