I Played More Expedition 33 (it's literally 10/10) | Asmongold

Asmongold sat down to play more of Expedition 33, and his verdict was blunt: it is a "10/10" and his current Game of the Year. The episode is not an interview or a structured review, but a live playthrough where Asmongold's running commentary reveals why the game has hooked him so deeply. The central argument that emerges from the stream is that Expedition 33 succeeds because it delivers a rare, satisfying power curve—starting the player as vulnerable and gradually letting them become overwhelmingly strong—while wrapping that progression in a world with unusually rich, fully-voiced character writing.

The Joy of Earning Power

The dominant thread of the stream is Asmongold's obsession with character optimization. He spends significant time in menus, agonizing over which "Lumina points" to allocate and which weapon upgrades to pursue. He explains his philosophy directly: "I like starting out not being OP and then earning being OP. I don't like being OP from the beginning because then I feel like it doesn't matter." The game, he argues, delivers exactly that arc. Early in the session, he struggles against new enemy types, admitting he is "doing bad damage" and that "these mobs are hard to kill." But by the end, after carefully funneling resources into his core team—primarily the characters Verso and Monoco—he is one-shotting enemies and wiping out bosses with ease. "We co