Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Metaphor: ReFantazio encourage player agency, allowing an impressive level of nuance and creativity to team builds.
Jay Ku says: "Grief looms over us all, and the Dessendre family knows it well." This feature contains heavy spoilers.
Sandfall: "Expeditioners,
We have just rolled out a patch, and uploaded our first ever items to the Steam Points Shop! You have some unique Trading Cards to choose from, alongside a series of emoticons. We hope you love them!"
I still haven't go this game yet but it's good to know that I'll play a much-improved version whenever I get around to it. A lot of people loved the game before so I imagine it'll be an even better experience now (and in the future).
You’d think the hype has died down, but nothing could be further from the truth. As it turns out, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was among Steam’s Top 3 best-sellers in May 2025. And it is not stopping!
I hadn't played Metaphor until it was on GamePass and I can tell you I vastly prefer Clair Obscur. That said, I have never been a big fan of the Persona games.
Both incredible games
I personaly really disliked ReFantazio, couldn’t get into it and i loved P5 back in the day. Clair Obscur is much, much better IMO. It cuts all the nonsense and bloat, focuses on fun, it’s much more intuitive, waaaay more focused and much better paced and it doesn’t have incoherent anime nonsense. And i found Refantazio take on the racism and classism to be very shallow. So no i don’t agree that they are two sides of the same coin.. i mean why? Just because they’re both turn based games? Get out of here with that.
For me it was like demon souls to blood Bourne.
I know not the same game but it’s the best example for me.
Just like bloodborne, expedition 33 was faster and more fluid.
And metaphor, just like demon/dark souls, it’s much slower.
For me I like the faster pace combat.
clair obscure had a bigger impact on me personally, but both games are fantastic