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Gamers Push Back At Clair Obscur Winning 'Best Indie' At The Game Awards 2025

The gaming community is debating whether Clair Obscur truly qualifies as an indie game, with players questioning its funding, scope and studio backing.

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"The real reward in our heart is the emotional response": As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 continues its GOTY domination, the devs and actors are still reeling from its success

Year in Review 2025 | The JRPG wasn't supposed to be "big," it was supposed to be "cool" – and 7 months later, it's officially both

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's record-high nominations at The Game Awards proves what I've been saying for the past 8 months

Opinion | When it comes to balancing quirk and familiarity, Clair Obscur does it best

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The Game Awards 2025: Is Clair Obscur's Record-Breaking Run a Triumph or a Sign of Bias?

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads The Game Awards 2025 with 12 nominations, raising questions about PlayStation's dominance and whether jury bias is shaping the industry's biggest stage.

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Get your motor running — this former PlayStation exclusive now takes Xbox players on a horrifying road trip with Game Pass

Pacific Drive, the former PlayStation exclusive title from Ironwood Studios and Kepler Interactive, has parked itself on Xbox Game Pass with support for Xbox's Play Anywhere initiative.

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A big PS5 / PC horror sensation is shadow dropping on Xbox today with Play Anywhere, complete with a huge expansion

Kepler Interactive shadow drops cult hit Pacific Drive on Xbox with Play Anywhere support.

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I don't think I'm good enough at Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to contend with the new update, so I'm heading back into the JRPG to face my biggest fear

Now Playing | I must earn extra Clair Obscur by finishing the Clair Obscur I already have at home

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just crossed this huge sales milestone — and to celebrate a free update with a new region, challenging fights, and more is on the way

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 crosses 5 million copies sold, and a free update is coming that'll add more costumes and bosses to fight.

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Possible Clair Obscur sequel or DLC teased — to the surprise of no one, Expedition 33's creative director says, "This is not the end"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's creative director has alluded to more being created for the popular RPG. This isn't surprising to me, but I do wonder where the story will go from here.

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Games Publisher Kepler On Cloud Nine After Smash Hits

Games publisher Kepler Interactive has notched up two of the breakout titles of the year with "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" and "Rematch", reaping the rewards for developing independent projects on tight budgets.

International Business Times

These crazy mods can turn one of the best PC games of 2025 into the ultimate Final Fantasy x Pokémon crossover, guest starring Keanu Reeves

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is one of the most popular and beloved games of 2025. In fact, it has garnered so much love that fans have been creating incredible cosmetic mods that transform the playable characters into iconic characters from other franchises.

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'You've seen the number of releases from AAA publishers dwindle and dwindle and dwindle': Clair Obscur's runaway success was helped by staying smaller scale in a world of inflated budgets

Clair Obscur's budget was less than you might think, but in a world of spiralling development costs, that might not be a bad thing.

PC Gamer

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 does what most games don't dare do, and that's what makes it so captivating

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a masterpiece with hidden depth and meaning subtly woven throughout its story, combat, and art style.

Windows Central

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 endings and story explained – from doppelgangers to the true purpose of The Gommage

Unpicking Expedition 33's story and both ending choices to answer your burning questions

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"I understand why players feel that strong French identity in the soundtrack," says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's composer, especially in that one Mime song: "It felt like both a duty and a guilty pleasure to include the accordion"

Interview | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's composer Lorien Testard on RPG soundtracks, the mime battle music, and working on that one track with Ben Starr

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It took me 35 hours to discover Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's overworld map, but it only highlights my biggest problem with the game's dungeons

Now Playing | Accidental navigator mode, activated

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Forget Fortnite Festival – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Expert difficulty is secretly the rhythm game I've been waiting years for

Opinion | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's parry system is for the rhythm game sickos like me

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'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' Has Very Positive Reviews on Steam, 4.9 Stars on Google Reviews

Find out what gamers have to say on Steam and Google Reviews about "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33," which was released on April 24, 2025.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's brilliant parry system solves a classic JRPG problem: I can win any match-up on skill alone, so being under-leveled is just a state of mind

Opinion | Forget reducing damage, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 allows you to completely negate it and hit back with counterattacks to beast mode even the toughest fights

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After years of despising JRPGs, Clair Obscur has finally brought me around by ditching the standard cast of tedious teenagers

Now Playing | Expedition 33 brought me around to one of my least favorite genres by aging up its themes, dialogue and (thank Christ), the cast

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Former Dragon Age writer praises Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as "beautiful," saying it's "kind of to JRPGs what Baldur's Gate 3 was to CRPGs"

BioWare veteran David Gaider is enjoying the new turn-based RPG

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Folks, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 might be prestige television – I was surprised to find this RPG is perfect to play in shorter bursts

Now Playing | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 offers a deep and compelling RPG adventure that's surprisingly welcoming to those with less time to play

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says "omg it's like Barbenheimer" as the RPG clashes with Oblivion Remastered, and also "teehee" as it ties for the best-rated game of 2025

The new turn-based RPG releases tomorrow

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review: "An old-school feeling JRPG as dynamic as Persona but with parry-filled battles as hard-won as Sekiro"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review: a brilliantly weird, utterly unique game

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