There are a total of 49 Journals to track down in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and it will take you the entire playthrough to find every last one of them, including completing all of the game’s most challenging side content. Fortunately, we have you covered with all of their locations here, so keep reading to find where they can all be had.

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Journals are represented by a diamond and can be found all across the continent in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Every Journal Location¶

We appreciate that everyone may have different methods for how they’re looking to find that missing Journal, and while the game offers a set way of showing them, it can lead to spoilers as some are named rather than numbered and you won’t find them in the same order as the game. For that reason alone, the table below will list the journals in chronological order that you find them in the game.

Name	Location	Map Marker
Expedition 81	Spring Meadows: Can’t miss, part of the story	Map Marker
Expedition 68	Flying Waters - Coral Cave: On the main path, hard to miss	Map Marker
Expedition 53	The Small Bourgeon: At the back	Map Marker
Expedition 63	Ancient Sanctuary - Giant Bell Array: Go back on yourself down the slope, then right and keep going forward	Map Marker
Expedition 52	Gestral Village - Hidden at the back of the village near the arena entrance	Map Marker
Expedition 66	Esquie’s Nest - After giving him the rock, he knocks a pillar down, take this across and then go right to find it	Map Marker
Expedition 44	Yellow Harvest - Harvester’s Hollow: In the back right corner, before the cave entrance	Map Marker
Expedition 38	Yellow Harvest - Harvester’s Hollow: Go to the right and find a ledge going up, where you’ll find this journal	Map Marker
Expedition 59	Yellow Harvest - Yellow Spire Wrecks: Go to the left of the flag	Map Marker
Expedition 62	World Map - North of Gestral Village, requires Esquie to get through the rocks	Map Marker
Expedition 78	Stone Wave Cliffs - Entrance: After the flag, hug the right wall to find a rope that leads up to this	Map Marker
Expedition 56	Stone Wave Cliffs - Entrance: Go through the large pot after the Hexga, go across the gap, and you’ll find some scythe enemies, the Journal is at the end of the path on the left	Map Marker
Expedition 50	Stone Wave Cliffs - Paintress Shrine: After going down by the ship, you’ll be able to go multiple ways, keep to the left to find this journal	Map Marker
Expedition 54	Stone Wave Cliffs Cave - On the floor where Chromatic Hexga was	Map Marker
Expedition 64	World Map - Southwest of the Meadows (east of Ancient Gestral City, needs Esquie Swim)	Map Marker
Expedition 45	Crushed Caverns - After defeating the Giant Sapling, take the rope up behind it and you’ll see it in front of you, to the left	Map Marker
Expedition 36	White Tree - In the open	Map Marker
Expedition 41	Forgotten Battlefield: In the corridor, right of the Fading Lady. There’s a small area to your left containing the journal	Map Marker
Expedition 57	Forgotten Battlefield - Battlefield: Go north past the Fading Lady to enter an area with broken siege machines. You’ll find the Journal to your right	Map Marker
Expedition 48	Stone Quarry - East of Forgotten Battlefield on the map	Map Marker
Expedition 65	Monoco’s Station - Near the northeast exit of the station	Map Marker
Expedition 51	Frozen Hearts - Head northeast from the rest point, and you’ll eventually find it	Map Marker
Expedition 47	World Map - West of Monoco’s Station, near the large enemy	Map Marker
Fracture Survivor	Old Lumière - Left Street: When you control Maelle/Verso, follow the linear path until Noco talks about treasure. Go on the pipe to the right to find an item and there will be a hole you can drop into (on the pipe). Drop and open the gate behind you to find the journal, this requires the Old Key.	Map Marker
Expedition 58	Obtained after finishing Old Lumière	Map Marker
Expedition 42	Old Lumière - Return via the northern exit after the story and take the left path to find it after dropping down	Map Marker
Renoir’s Journal	The Manor - Old Lumière Entrance: Go through the door to the bedroom and find it on the table by the side of the bed	–
Expedition 43	World Map - On the island east of Coastal Cave, need to go through Coral	Map Marker
Expedition 35	Fallen Leaves - At the first flag, drop to the bottom, then go through and back up and you will drop down to where a Glaise is, the Journal can be found to the left	Map Marker
Expedition 49	Falling Leaves - Go through the door after doing the spirit boy quest and you’ll find it along the path near the top of the cliff	Map Marker
Expedition 34	The Crows - Sitting right next to the flag	Map Marker
Expedition 40	World Map - Small island just southwest of the Monolith	Map Marker
Expedition 69	Visages - Path of Joy: Go left after the flag and then climb another ledge on the left as you continue forward	Map Marker
Unknown	The Manor - Visages Entrance: Found in Anger Vale, Open the first door to find the journal near the bed	–
Expedition 39	Visages - Sadness Vale: Go toward the mask then up the path to the right and follow it all the way up	Map Marker
Expedition 55	Sirène - Danceless: On your right where all the dancers are just past the rest point	Map Marker
Expedition 67	Sirène - Dancing Arena: Opposite the Flag	Map Marker
Aline’s Journal	The Manor - Inside the Monolith Entrance: Found in the Tainted Battlefield, will take you to a greenhouse, it’s straight in front of you	–
Expedition 70	Inside the Monolith - Tainted Lumière: At the tree, go right to find some grapple points, take them to find this on that path	Map Marker
Expedition 37	Northeastern Gestral Beach - Near the pot	Map Marker
Unknown	The Manor - The Reacher - Ladder Area Entrance	–
Expedition 61	The Reacher - Foggy Area: Just before the balloon	Map Marker
Expedition 46	Sirène’s Dress - You need to defeat the chromatic Glissando first, part of Lune’s relationship quest	Map Marker
Expedition 84	The Fountain - To the right of Blanche	Map Marker
Julie Search and Rescue	World Map - South of the Painting Workshop near Monoco’s Station, need to fly to reach this part of land	Map Marker
Verso’s Journal	World Map - South of the Painting Workshop near Monoco’s Station, need to fly to reach this part of land	Map Marker
Unknown	The Manor - Final door (requires the Manor Family Canvas from The Canvas)	–
Expedition 60	Lumière - When you reach the entrance to the Opera House, go to the right (when facing the entrance) and you can interact with the water to get Esquie to bring it to you	Map Marker
Simon	Renoir’s Drafts - Defeat Simon, it’s where he was sitting	Map Marker

There you have it; you now know where to find all of the Journals and obtain the On the Trail Achievement/Trophy for your troubles. If you pay a visit to the Trader in Gestral Village, you can hand over Journals for multiple quantities of 20 x Colour of Lumina!