Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - All Journal Locations

by Adam Vitale on 24 April, 2025

As you make your way through Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, you'll begin to find the prior journals left from the Expeditions that departed before you, as well as a few journals from mysterious individuals.

This guide simply points out where to find each and every journal in the game. Some of these are found in the game's many explorable areas, and some are found on the world map. For successfully finding all the journals in the game, you'll unlock the achievement Follow The Trail.

You can check your journal collection progress simply by clicking the Journal option from the game's main menu, which allows you to re-read or re-listen to entries whenever you choose to. Note that a few journal entries do not appear in the list, namely the "Unknown" ones, until you find them in the game, so make sure you collect those alongside the rest.

Journal	Location
34	In The Crows
35	Past the Lady of Sap in Fallen Leaves
37	Gestral Beach - the one surrounded by mountains in the NE (requires flying)
36	In White Tree
38	Yellow Harvest - up on the slope near the Mime cave entrance
39	Dead end right of the big sadness face in Sadness Vale in Visages
40	Small dark NW island on the World Map
41	In the trench right of the Fading Woman in Forgotten Battlefield
42	Old Lumière, right of the manor
43	On the Chromatic Reaper Cultist island near White Sands
44	In Yellow Harvest, in the area with the Jar/Poiter enemies
45	On the path, past the Rope in Crushing Cavern, after the boss
46	After Chromatic Glissando in Sirene's Dress
47	In the mountains SW of Old Lumière on the World Map
48	In Stone Quarry
49	Past the boy, up a rope, down the path in Falling Leaves
50	Hug the left wall in the area past the Paintress shrine in Stone Wave Cliffs
51	On an upper level in Frozen Hearts
52	Gestral Village, a path near the Arena entrance (go right of the arena entrance)
53	In The Small Bourgeon
54	Near the Chromatic Hexga in Stone Wave Cliffs Cave
55	In the dungeon Sirène
56	In Stone Wave Cliffs, to the left after the first grapple jump
57	In the area beyond the Painted Cage in Forgotten Battlefield
58	Automatic after Old Lumiere Events
59	In Yellow Harvest, left of the Yellow Spire Wrecks flag
60	In Lumière during your return there. Head right of the Opera House entrance and interact with the prompt at the end of the stone pier.
61	In the Foggy Area of the Reacher
62	On the World Map near Jumebila's shop on the beach north of Esquie's Nest, requires Esquie
63	In the 2nd half of the Ancient Sanctuary maze are
64	On the World Map on land east of Ancient Gestral City
65	At the back end of Monoco's Station
66	Esquie's Nest as you leave
67	After the moving platform after the Glissando boss in Sirène
68	In Flying Waters, on the path after the 2nd Cruler, past the Coral Cave flag
69	In Joy Vale in Visages
70	Tainted Lumière area in Monolith
78	Up rope just past the Entrance flag in Stone Wave Cliffs
81	Automatic in Spring Meadows during the cutscene at Abandoned Expeditioner Camp, this is the tutorial journal
84	The Fountain
Verso	On the World Map, on the ledge west of Stone Quarry
Aline	Manor Door in the Battlefield Area of Monolith
Renoir	In the Manor door where the Mansion used to be in Old Lumière
Unknown	Manor Door in Anger Vale in Visages
Unknown	Manor Door in the bottom of the Ladder Area in the Reacher
Unknown	Final Manor door after picking up Manor Family Portrait in The Canvas
Julie	On the World Map, on the ledge west of Stone Quarry
Simon	Defeat Simon in Renoir's Drafts to access. Simon is the hardest boss in the game.
Survivor	Shortly past the Left Street flag in Old Lumière, in a pipe to the right side of the path. Requires Old Key.