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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – how a tiny studio developed the Belle Époque-set gaming blockbuster

What started as Guillaume Broche’s personal project has been nominated for 12 Game awards, sold more than 2m copies and been praised by Emmanuel Macron as a ‘shining example of French audacity’

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"The real reward in our heart is the emotional response": As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 continues its GOTY domination, the devs and actors are still reeling from its success

Year in Review 2025 | The JRPG wasn't supposed to be "big," it was supposed to be "cool" – and 7 months later, it's officially both

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says Xbox Game Pass "lowered that barrier of entry" for his turn-based RPG, a genre that "might put people who prefer more real-time action games off"

"They could just try it and see how it feels"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director doesn't think sales and awards success should change the studio: "What we want to do is exactly what we wanted to do when we started"

"We don't want to grow too much as a company"

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Clair Obscur creative director says he knew the game was going to be 'cool,' but he really didn't expect it to be so 'big'

Nobody on the team saw this coming.

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Despite the JRPG love letter dominating award shows, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative lead insists the game really was "not supposed to be big"

Before Clair Obscur's release, its devs thought "it's not going to be big, it's going to be cool"

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Dispatch leads say the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team's shout-out at the Golden Joysticks "means so much," and "I've never had a game make me cry so quickly before"

It's always nice when everyone gets along

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead uses award win to say play Dispatch, a superhero comedy from ex-Telltale devs with The Boys vibes: "It's very very cool and has a very good story"

Dispatch's first season just ended

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "cult classic" Xbox 360 JRPG from Final Fantasy creator is "one of the best games of its kind" and "the last game that made me cry"

Hironobu Sakaguchi himself was involved in Lost Odyssey

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is only 85% of its creative director's original vision for the French JRPG, and he "would have loved" to do more with a specific fan-favorite character

Justice for Esquie is "something that we might want to do later," says Sandfall Interactive lead Guillaume Broche

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Sandfall says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 winning GOTY "isn't something we aim for," and even though it would be a "nice little bonus," it's rooting for Megabonk

Clair Obscur director Guillaume Broche can't stop playing Megabonk: "Help me!"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says "there are still a few" secrets players have yet to find in the JRPG

"Maybe they have been found, but I haven't seen anything about it"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio's next game won't necessarily be an RPG: "We don't want to be constrained by story, art style or gameplay"

"We just want it to feel authentic, and made with love"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director wants the French RPG to be open to interpretation, but thinks "we failed as writers" if you don't connect to its cast as humans

Guillaume Broche nudges players in the right direction

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says AAA-sized "scope and budget" might have made it worse, actually, because "not artificially padding out the game time excessively" was key to the RPG's success

It could've created "a less engaging game for our players"

PC Gamer

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 devs are 'working on a big thank you update' which'll include a new location, boss battles, and 'highly requested' quality-of-life improvements

Whees and whoos are good.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs say "being recognized in Japan" is "very personal to us" after making a game "inspired by so many incredible JRPGs we grew up with"

"We could not be more grateful"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was inspired by JRPG greats like Final Fantasy, but its director loves gaming because of an old-school 1988 beat 'em up

Guillaume Broche says, in Paris, games were for nerds

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'This is not the end of the Clair Obscur franchise' – Expedition 33 director says there are more stories to tell

Sandfall Interactive has confirmed that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the first game in a new franchise.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says the RPG went up against "one of the biggest remasters" with Oblivion Remastered – but it worked out: "I feel like it makes us even more deserving in a way"

Sandfall Interactive's game launched 2 days after Bethesda's own

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director adds another DLC teaser to the pile: 'We may be cooking'

Just tell us already!

Windows Central

Possible Clair Obscur sequel or DLC teased — to the surprise of no one, Expedition 33's creative director says, "This is not the end"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's creative director has alluded to more being created for the popular RPG. This isn't surprising to me, but I do wonder where the story will go from here.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs denied DLC plans, but now the French JRPG's director admits that may have changed: "We may be cooking"

Yes, chef

Destructoid

Expedition 33 is just the beginning of the Clair Obscur journey, game director says

Tomorrow comes.

GamesRadar

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says the hit French JRPG is just "one of the stories that we want to tell in this franchise," but thinks "the only way" to succeed "is to ignore the first game completely"

"We have to find this place of sincerity and authenticity again," says Guillaume Broche

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