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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: about the GOTY “of course we think about it... but this is not what we made it for”
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is shaping up to be a GOTY title. Behind its development is a passionate team that shaped it by setting aside multiple taboos and conventions during the creative process.
How a NASA simulation inspired Clair Obscur’s character lineup
How do you put the expedition into a game like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? For writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen, it meant ...
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‘From the ashes’: Gaming industry layoffs give way to rising indie studios
Several years of layoffs in the gaming industry have been the cause of concern and uncertainty among many game developers, ...
Clair Obscur's director has an old YouTube channel full of masterful no-hit Devil May Cry videos because of course he does
The director of the turn-based RPG with combat that plays like an action game, Clair Obscur, is also a hardcore Devil May Cry ...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director got on the RPG train early, playing FF8 'when my brother and I could barely read'
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 feels like a love letter to JRPGs—and that's because it pretty much is. Director Guillaume Broche ...
The odd path ‘Expedition 33’ took to becoming one of 2025’s best games
Expedition 33” is a surprise hit made by a small team that’s being celebrated by even the president of France. Its creators ...
Expedition 33’s big twist was designed to ‘inflict the pain on the player’
The mysterious white-haired man who massacred much of Expedition 33 earlier in the story appears after an intense boss fight.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Switch 2 "could be interesting", says director
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director Guillaume Broche has said a Switch 2 version of the game "could be interesting", though ...
A Spectacular R.P.G. Has Balletic Combat and Powerful Twists
Expedition 33, about an attempt to free a Paris-like city from a disturbing ritual, has challenging turn-based combat and an ...
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Switch 2 Version Is Something Sandfall Thinks Could Be “Interesting”
Sandfall CEO Guillaume Broche stated that the success of the game has opened up many opportunities, including a potential ...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's French-inspired setting was originally steampunk London
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has a distinctive French style from its Montpellier-based developer Sandfall Interactive, but originally it was very different.
‘Think bigger’: The Victorian steampunk game that died so that Clair Obscur could live
If only every random scroll through Reddit was as productive as the one that changed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen’s entire life.