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Missing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 already? Here’s 9 games that will fill the hole left by the RPG’s end

It's like an itch I can't scratch.

Destructoid

Clair Obscur's director has an old YouTube channel full of masterful no-hit Devil May Cry videos because of course he does

You'll never guess what his favorite fighting style is.

PC Gamer

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director is more than just a Devil May Cry fan: his YouTube channel is nothing but impressive DMC 5 challenge runs, which absolutely tracks

Now I'm motivated to play this game

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Watch in horror and awe as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director uses early builds of characters like a vtuber model in the only video on Sandfall's old YouTube channel

If that is Lune, boy has she changed a lot

GamesRadar

Fans are surprised by the early concept trailer for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

You won't believe how different the year's best video game could have looked.

Creative Bloq

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn't coming to Nintendo Switch 2 yet, but its director reportedly seems interested in it

A Switch 2 release could help make the RPG even more of a hit

GamesRadar

A Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 trailer from 5 years ago resurfaced, and it's a delightfully bare-bones look at the primordial soup that spawned the full game

The project was once called "We Lost", and it looked… interesting.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 draft trailer from 5 years ago surfaces online, and it looks like a completely different RPG with no final visuals and "terrible robotic voices"

It's come a long way since then

GamesRadar

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director got on the RPG train early, playing FF8 'when my brother and I could barely read'

"We couldn't beat him."

PC Gamer

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 features "ultra hard" minigames inspired by the RPG director's time in Final Fantasy 10's infamous chocobo races

Guillaume Broche is responsible for the Gestral Beach minigames

GamesRadar

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director's first experience playing a JRPG was getting stuck on Final Fantasy 8's first boss because he and his brother "couldn’t read"

"The only thing we knew how to do was just auto-attack, which is really bad"

GamesRadar

'He's very good at finding really cool people': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director found its composer on Soundcloud and lead writer on Reddit

Soundcloud is pretty goated to be honest.

PC Gamer

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 head was "bored" at Ubisoft and hungry for a JRPG, and made the highest-rated game of 2025 – "Somehow it worked, which still makes no sense to me"

"We have, I think, an amazing team mostly of junior people," Guillaume Broche said

GamesRadar

‘Expedition 33’ Actor Ben Starr Explains The Game’s Secret Weapon

In an exclusive interview, 'Expedition 33's composer Lorien Testard and Verso actor Ben Starr explain the process of creating the game's stunning soundtrack.

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International Business Times

French Independent Studio's First Video Game Draws Fans

Independent French studio Sandfall Interactive's first video game "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" launched worldwide on Thursday but has already built up a solid community of fans eager to discover its post-apocalyptic fantasy world.

GamesRadar

It's not just your favorite JRPGs, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes notes from Studio Ghibli movies like Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle too

Clair Obscur dev Sandfall hopes to capture the same "sense of wonder" as the best Studio Ghibli films

PC Gamer

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director was 'starving for new turn-based RPGs,' and figured if he wanted them, there would be others out there who'd want to play his game

GamesRadar

Turn-based RPG Clair Obscur dev says all-star voice actor lineup includes people like Andy Serkis and Baldur’s Gate 3 alumni by accident: "He was like, 'Isn't that Clive from Final Fantasy?'"

Just accidentally casting some of the biggest names in games, no big deal

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Saving the world with a baguette? "A joke that went too far," shares Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's creative director, as we talk Final Fantasy, Persona, and more

Big in 2025 | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 “deeply respect[s]” Final Fantasy and Persona but wants its RPG to be “something that feels truly special and unique, with its own style"

The Guardian - UK

Games to look forward to in 2025: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

An ambitious French epic inspired by 20th-century surrealist painters and the belle époque will push the turn-based RPG genre forward

GamesRadar

One of our most-anticipated JRPGs for 2025 was being made "just for fun in the beginning" and "everybody was working for free"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has scrappy origins

GamesRadar

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director put parrying in his turn-based RPG after playing Sekiro and thinking "Why can't I parry in my game?"

"If nobody is going to do it, I will do it"

GamesRadar

Dev of French JRPG that stunned at the Xbox Showcase "not hiding" influence of Persona and Final Fantasy 8, 9, and 10, but wants to "find our own direction"

Clair Obscur: Expeditions 33 is carving its own path

Creative Bloq

This tiny indie team's Unreal Engine 5 RPG looks spectacular

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 features immersive and surreal environments.

Player One

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Reveals New Gameplay Trailer, Shows Off Mechanics

Calir Obscur: Expedition 33 is an upcoming turn-based RPG that pays homage to the classics of the genre and showed off new gameplay in a recent trailer.

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