Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director would not assume gross sales and awards success ought to change the studio: “What we wish to do is strictly what we needed to do once we began”

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is possibly probably the most shocking success story of the yr. A JRPG love letter not made in Japan from a first-time, comparatively slim French studio wasn’t all the time pegged to be a best-selling sport of the yr frontrunner, however Sandfall Interactive’s CEO Guillaume Broche would not assume the surprising success ought to change the developer a lot.

“I really feel like dramatic adjustments do not essentially imply that we have now to vary dramatically as human beings,” artistic director Broche advised GamesRadar+ after the sport took residence nearly each trophy it was nominated for at The Golden Joystick Awards 2025. “What we wish to do is strictly what we needed to do once we began the sport. It is simply [to] make video games which might be actually sincere and true, and write tales that transfer individuals and actually join individuals emotionally, and that is what we’re going to hold doing shifting ahead.”