Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dominated The Recreation Awards 2025, profitable all however two of the classes it was nominated for, together with the primary award, Recreation of the Yr.
Sandfall Interactive’s in style RPG received Recreation of the Yr forward of Dying Stranding 2: On the Seashore, Donkey Kong Bananza, Hades 2, Hole Knight: Silksong, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.
Amid thunderous applause, director Guillaume Brochus, who accepted the Recreation of the Yr award, thanked the “superb workforce” at Sandfall Interactive. Many of the workforce was in attendance in costume. Broche thanked the online game business’s “unsung heroes”: “the individuals who create tutorials on YouTube about find out how to make video games.” As a result of up till now, we had no thought find out how to make video games.
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Broche went on to personally thank Ultimate Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi for “giving me the chance to grow to be a recreation developer.” Broche ended his speech by saying the Shadow Drop launch of the Clair Obscur DLC.
Clair Obscur additionally received Finest Recreation Path, Finest Narrative, Finest Artwork Path, Finest Rating and Music, Finest Unbiased Recreation, Finest Debut Indie Recreation, and Finest RPG. Jennifer English received the Finest Performing Award for her position within the recreation.
The one classes Clair Obscur was nominated for however did not win have been Finest Audio Design, which went to EA’s shooter Battlefield 6, and Gamers’ Voice, which went to Wuthering Waves. Nonetheless, it is a outstanding outcome for Sandfall Interactive’s comparatively small workforce, particularly contemplating Clair Obscur is their debut title.
Clair Obscur launched in April reverse Bethesda’s TheElderScrollsIV:OblivionRemastered, with each video games coming to Recreation Move as day-one releases. It appeared that Clair Obscur would battle beneath these circumstances, nevertheless it rapidly turned massively in style, promoting 5 million copies by October.
videogameaddicted’s evaluation of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gave it a 9/10. We mentioned this. “Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 stays true to its inspiration, portray itself into the pantheon of nice RPGs with an awesome fight system and a gripping, harrowing story.”
For extra info, make sure to try every part introduced at The Recreation Awards 2025 and the complete listing of winners.
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