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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads follow up meeting their JRPG idols at Square Enix to exchange "visions and ideas" with praise from another genre icon over dinner: "My favorite game"

Sandfall Interactive developers have been busy

GamesRadar · Jul 25, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs are the new popular kids on the RPG block, visiting both Hideo Kojima and Final Fantasy creators Square Enix for 'a creatively rich exchange of visions and ideas'

Popular, tu vas être pop-u-lar.

PC Gamer · Jul 25, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's success impressed Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima so much he invited its devs over to his studio to sign copies of the French JRPG

The man is full of crossovers

GamesRadar · Jul 24, 2025

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's gut-wrenching early twist started as a joke from an abandoned game, but the director greenlit it immediately: "I think it's very important for the themes"

My heart . . .

GamesRadar · Jul 21, 2025

One of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's funniest moments was actually "random improv"

Sometimes the best things happen in the moment

GamesRadar · Jul 1, 2025

A vital piece of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's story literally came to the RPG's lead writer in a dream: "I realized, 'Oh actually, this story might work'"

The "final piece" of the story was then given to the team from the creative director's mother

GamesRadar · Jun 18, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 started as a "completely different game set in Victorian England," not the French turn-based RPG we now know and love

It was originally called "We Lost"

GamesRadar · Jun 18, 2025

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It's not just Final Fantasy and Persona – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is also inspired by my favorite JRPG gem Shadow Hearts, confirming a theory I've been sitting on for weeks

Judgment Ring, is that you?

GamesRadar · May 28, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director is more pleased about his French JRPG's acceptance in Japan than he is about its "acclaim in any other country"

It makes sense given how inspired he was by previous JRPG greats

GamesRadar · May 27, 2025

With the caveat he got "really, really, really lucky," Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director shares classic advice: "You have to make a game that you will like"

"I think it will always resonate if there's a sense of honesty and truth and joy in the game"

GamesRadar · May 26, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says what we all know is true: "Persona 5 is the best game in the world when it comes to battle depictions and UI"

Straight facts

GamesRadar · May 25, 2025

A Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dev has formed an anime rivalry with the godlike buildcrafters who only needed 'like, one week' to beat his record of dealing 3.4 billion damage with one attack

Number go up.

PC Gamer · May 21, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs had an internal competition to see who could hit for the most damage – and players broke their record "in like 1 week"

Fans of the RPG have developers beat

GamesRadar · May 20, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says the studio itself is "like an RPG party" of people who came together randomly, and treating "stupid ideas" seriously is essential

I love it when a plan comes together

GamesRadar · May 19, 2025

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Destructoid · May 16, 2025

Missing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 already? Here’s 9 games that will fill the hole left by the RPG’s end

It's like an itch I can't scratch.

PC Gamer · May 16, 2025

Clair Obscur's director has an old YouTube channel full of masterful no-hit Devil May Cry videos because of course he does

You'll never guess what his favorite fighting style is.

GamesRadar · May 15, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director is more than just a Devil May Cry fan: his YouTube channel is nothing but impressive DMC 5 challenge runs, which absolutely tracks

Now I'm motivated to play this game

GamesRadar · May 14, 2025

Watch in horror and awe as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director uses early builds of characters like a vtuber model in the only video on Sandfall's old YouTube channel

If that is Lune, boy has she changed a lot

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Creative Bloq · May 14, 2025

Fans are surprised by the early concept trailer for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

You won't believe how different the year's best video game could have looked.

GamesRadar · May 14, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn't coming to Nintendo Switch 2 yet, but its director reportedly seems interested in it

A Switch 2 release could help make the RPG even more of a hit

PC Gamer · May 13, 2025

A Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 trailer from 5 years ago resurfaced, and it's a delightfully bare-bones look at the primordial soup that spawned the full game

The project was once called "We Lost", and it looked… interesting.

GamesRadar · May 13, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 draft trailer from 5 years ago surfaces online, and it looks like a completely different RPG with no final visuals and "terrible robotic voices"

It's come a long way since then

PC Gamer · May 12, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director got on the RPG train early, playing FF8 'when my brother and I could barely read'

"We couldn't beat him."

GamesRadar · May 12, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 features "ultra hard" minigames inspired by the RPG director's time in Final Fantasy 10's infamous chocobo races

Guillaume Broche is responsible for the Gestral Beach minigames

GamesRadar · May 11, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director's first experience playing a JRPG was getting stuck on Final Fantasy 8's first boss because he and his brother "couldn’t read"

"The only thing we knew how to do was just auto-attack, which is really bad"

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