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The odd path ‘Expedition 33’ took to becoming one of 2025’s best games
Expedition 33” is a surprise hit made by a small team that’s being celebrated by even the president of France. Its creators ...
Expedition 33’s big twist was designed to ‘inflict the pain on the player’
The mysterious white-haired man who massacred much of Expedition 33 earlier in the story appears after an intense boss fight.
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Clair Obscur: How a passion project became 2025's most talked-about game
Expedition 33 is set in Lumiere, a fictional world overshadowed by a huge monolith bearing a glowing numeral on its face.
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Clair Obscur Expedition 33’s origin story is even more insane than you’d think
Clair Obscur Expedition 33’s director revealed that most of his team had never even made a game before dropping a 2025 GOTY ...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director got on the RPG train early, playing FF8 'when my brother and I could barely read'
Expedition 33 feels like a love letter to JRPGs—and that's because it pretty much is. Director Guillaume Broche has a long-lasting history with the genre, including an ill-fated attempt to play Final ...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Most Heinous Challenges Were Inspired By Final Fantasy X
Expedition 33 is an irresistible melting pot of old and new ideas, combining classic JRPG tropes with modern storytelling ...
Smaller teams are making better games, go figure
Broche, who founded Sandfall Interactive after his tenure at Ubisoft, recently commented that getting approval to develop ...
A spectacular RPG has balletic combat and powerful twists
Expedition 33, about an attempt to free a Paris-like city from a disturbing ritual, has challenging turn-based combat and an ...
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Director Came Up With The Game While Bored At Ubisoft
Boredom can be productive, apparently. At least it was for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director Guillaume Broche, who first dreamed about creating the critically acclaimed RPG while "bored in their ...