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Broche warns that Sandfall’s next game will divide players

On 15 September 2026, in a Konbini interview, Guillaume Broche described how Sandfall Interactive is approaching the next game. Multi-million sales of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33…

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Valor Mortis’ director wants more hits on Expedition 33’s scale

On 11 September 2026 at Gamescom, Valor Mortis director Radek Ratusznik told GamesIndustry.biz that one success like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has not been enough for…

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The A Painted Symphony concerts return in 2027

On 8 September 2026 the A Painted Symphony concert programme based on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was extended. After the European tour, 2027 adds new cities and the first North…

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A fan built a Pokémon fight on Expedition 33’s parries

On 31 August 2026 a video by BelmontesArt showed what a Pokémon battle could look like with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s mechanics. The frame has Decidueye, Charizard and…

Aug 17, 2026| News | Comments 0

Yoshida asked Kepler not to lead with “turn-based RPG”

On 17 August 2026 former PlayStation chief Shuhei Yoshida, at the Busan Indie Connect Festival, recalled advice he gave the makers of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. About two years…

Aug 02, 2026| News | Comments 0

Sandfall’s Montpellier manor matches the game by accident

On 2 August 2026 Broche told Automaton where Sandfall Interactive’s house, so like the manor in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, came from. The match happened on its own. The team…

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Attack on Titan and Bleach shaped the look of Expedition 33

On 1 August 2026 Broche told Automaton that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was fed by more than Japanese RPGs. Among anime, Attack on Titan sat hardest on the story: a shared threat…

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Broche explains why a JRPG plot hits harder for him than Skyrim

On 29 July 2026, in an Automaton interview, Broche explained why Japanese RPGs sit closer to him than The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout and Baldur's Gate. In a Western…

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Sandfall’s next game will be a small team’s experiment

After Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 landed, people expected Sandfall to grow fast and build a larger RPG. On 28 July 2026 Guillaume Broche described a different plan: get back the…

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Sandfall calls PlayStation’s retreat from discs a sad call

The same day the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developers answered Sony’s plan to stop shipping new PlayStation games on discs from 2028. The studio still treats a physical copy as…

Jul 28, 2026| News | Comments 0

An Expedition 33 port to Switch 2 depends on console power

On 28 July 2026 Sandfall Interactive told Automaton that interest in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Nintendo Switch 2 is real, and the port looks like heavy engineering. Technical…

Jul 25, 2026| News | Comments 0

DevGAMM speakers used Expedition 33 as an example of nerve

On 25 July 2026 at the DevGAMM Madeira Games Summit, studios, publishers and independent teams talked about one fear. New games look more and more alike because the risk is…

Jul 17, 2026| News | Comments 0

Develop:Star Awards 2026 gives Expedition 33 three prizes

On 17 July 2026, during Develop:Brighton, the Develop:Star Awards were announced. Developers vote. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 from Sandfall Interactive and Kepler Interactive…

Jul 12, 2026| News | Comments 0

Expedition 33 kept its parry combat against the advice

Guillaume Broche remembers outside voices, early in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, telling the team to drop the combat. A mix of turns with dodges and parries, they were told, was…

Jul 11, 2026| News | Comments 0

Ben Starr accuses Microsoft of lying after the Xbox cuts

On 11 July 2026 Ben Starr, who plays Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Clive in Final Fantasy XVI, went hard at Microsoft on the Pause for Thought podcast after the Xbox…

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Broche hopes prompt-built AI games turn out poor

On 5 July 2026, on Video Game Club, Broche talked about generative AI in development. He expects algorithms to reach the point of automating the grind, and that worries him. He…

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Broche treats Expedition 33 as an heir to Lost Odyssey

In a Jeux Vidéo Club interview Guillaume Broche returned to Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Lost Odyssey. For him it is the main game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 grew out of. He calls the…

Jul 04, 2026| News | Comments 0

Broche says a spotless game loses its face

On 4 July 2026, talking with Konbini, Broche said that chasing a game with no flaw often washes the character out. He remembers cult games for their rough edges. He uses the first…

Jul 03, 2026| News | Comments 0

Broche defends turn-based RPGs as a living genre

On 3 July 2026, talking to Video Games Chronicle, Broche answered people who file turn-based RPGs under the past. For him the form is an ordinary mechanic that still works and…

Jul 02, 2026| News | Comments 0

Broche borrowed FromSoftware’s way of assembling a story

Guillaume Broche says that what Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took from Dark Souls and Elden Ring was a way of telling the story, while the difficulty stayed its own. He likes…

Jul 02, 2026| News | Comments 0

Sandfall will make the next game without chasing the hit

On 2 July 2026, on Video Game Club, Broche said he will not trace the success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The studio will again make what it wants to play, even if that misses…

Jun 30, 2026| News | Comments 0

Broche calls Breath of the Wild the first honest open world

In late June 2026 Guillaume Broche, creative director of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, used Konbini’s Video Game Club to talk through The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. For…

Jun 30, 2026| News | Comments 0

Expedition 33 gains an Arabic interface and subtitles

On 30 June 2026 Sandfall Interactive and publisher Kepler Interactive shipped a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 update with Arabic text. The interface and subtitles are translated,…