Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Storms The Game Awards, Wins Coveted Game of the Year 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 stormed The Game Awards 2025, winning each but 2 categories it was nominated in, including the main prize: Game of the Year.

Sandfall Interactive's much-loved RPG won Game of the Year up of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Donkey Kong Bananza, Hades 2, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

Accepting the Game of the Year grant to rapturous applause, manager Guillaume Broche thanked the "incredible team" astatine Sandfall Interactive, astir of whom were successful attendance and successful costume. Broche extended his acknowledgment to the "unsung heroes" of the video crippled industry, "the radical who marque tutorials connected YouTube connected however to marque a game, due to the fact that we had nary thought however to marque a crippled before."

The Game of the Year grant goes to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33! #TheGameAwards @expedition33 @sandfallgames @kepler_interact pic.twitter.com/s33D7xvdvq

Broche went connected to contented a idiosyncratic convey you to Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, "who inspired maine to go a crippled dev." Broche ended his code by announcing the shadiness driblet merchandise of Clair Obscur DLC.

Clair Obscur besides won Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score And Music, Best Independent Game, Best Debut Indie Game, and Best RPG. Jennifer English won Best Peformance for her relation successful the game.

The lone categories Clair Obscur was nominated successful but failed to triumph were Best Audio Design, which went to EA's shooter, Battlefield 6, and Players’ Voice, which went to Wuthering Waves. Still, it's a singular effect for the comparatively tiny squad astatine Sandfall Interactive, particularly fixed Clair Obscur is its debut title.

Clair Obscur launched successful April close up against Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, with some games hitting Game Pass arsenic time 1 releases. It was felt that Clair Obscur mightiness conflict nether those circumstances, but it enjoyed instant and important popularity, and would spell connected to merchantability 5 cardinal copies by October.

IGN's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 reappraisal returned a 9/10. We said: "Wearing its inspirations connected its sleeve, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 paints itself into the pantheon of large RPGs with a superb combat strategy and a gripping, harrowing story."

Be definite to cheque retired everything announced astatine The Game Awards 2025 for more, arsenic good arsenic the winners database successful full.

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