Guillaume Broche, Artistic Director on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, has admitted throughout a chat with Radio Occasions Gaming that the workforce didn’t suppose the sport would obtain the large success that it’s managed to attain, believing t could be “cool” however wasn’t meant “to be massive.”
I believe folks don’t actually notice that, now it’s grow to be massive, however earlier than the launch, it was not alleged to be massive. I believe all of us felt the identical factor. It’s going to be cool. It’s not going to be massive, it’s going to be cool. And what’s taking place at the moment is like, as we are saying, no person actually understands what’s taking place. It’s a bizarre feeling, whenever you put your coronary heart out into the world and the world embraces it and offers you a lot love again. We get a lot love from the gamers… it’s so touching and unimaginable that it’s very onerous to elucidate.
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These feedback have been additionally echoed by Ben Starr, the voice actor who portrays the character Verso in Clair Obscur, admitting that nobody actually anticipated the RPG to drum up the numbers it did as “it’s a small recreation.”
It was by no means meant to be as massive as it’s. It’s changed into this sort of cultural second, phenomenon, however that’s simply because the sport could be very trustworthy, I believe. And lots of people have purchased into that. I don’t suppose anybody anticipated this as a result of it’s a small recreation. Nobody anticipated these numbers, and we’ve all simply been messaging one another considering, that is, properly, that is simply foolish. That is simply foolish now. Everybody simply cease. It’s a foolish joke. However yeah, it’s been very cool.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was launched for PS5, PC, and Xbox Collection X/S again in April and as of October 2025 bought over 5 million copies worldwide. Whereas developer Sandfall Interactive hasn’t introduced precisely what it’s engaged on subsequent, it has said it “gained’t be constrained by story, artwork model or gameplay,” so it seems like something is feasible at this level.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 carried out extraordinarily properly on the latest Golden Joystick Awards 2025, choosing up Finest Soundtrack, Finest Storytelling, Finest Visible Design, and Final Recreation of the 12 months.
[Source – Radio Times Gaming via IGN]
