Daredevil actor Charlie Cox has revealed he's finally played some of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, although he hasn't beaten it yet.
In an interview with GamesRadar+ ahead of the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards, Cox reveals that, almost a year after the game's massive run began and it became the most-awarded game in history across other awards shows, "I've since played a bit of it." However, he adds, "Not the whole thing, I haven't completed it."
Granted, the process is somewhat daunting, as he says, "there are people who've played it, there are people who've completed it, there are people who have 100%'d it, which – as far as I could work out – is 50 plus hours, maybe 100 hours, sometimes, of gameplay." As for his adventure, he says, "I've played the opening bit for a while and kind of walked around and met the people and garnered the information and all that kind of stuff. Not very well."
The Gustave actor admits, "I'm not very good, because obviously, it's a skill set, but I've played it."
Interestingly, it's not actually the first game Cox has played. He recalls, "My memory of video gaming probably goes up to FIFA 98," adding that his rotation consisted of it, Mario Kart, and Goldeneye 007. Clair Obscur, on the other hand, is a bit of a change of pace for what his gaming habits once were, as those games "were obviously incredibly addictive and huge amounts of fun, but they weren't stories."
"Those games I just listed… They weren't, like, stories that were so carefully carved out and created over the course of a game with the level of detail and the way in which information is received. It's not just all spelled out – you discover these things as you go on through the game," Cox explains, likening modern storytelling to "a movie you get to participate in."
As for playing a game where you yourself are the lead, Cox says, "It didn't really feel like me... I didn't really think of it as me, I thought of it as Gustave."
The 2026 BAFTA Games Awards with Google Play will take place on Friday, April 17 2026, at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
