It’s that time of year again. The Game Awards 2025 has recently concluded, with one particular title coming out on top, over and over again – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The game, a debut effort by French studio Sandfall Interactive, won a record-breaking nine awards at the show, sweeping almost all the categories it was nominated for.
This includes the coveted Game of the Year trophy, beating out titles like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Donkey Kong Bananza and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, all of which offered stiff competition.
The turn-based RPG also scored wins in Best Direction and Best Narrative, while actress Jennifer English won Best Performance for voicing the character Maelle. Notably, it also swept both Best Independent and Best Debut Indie Game, while losing out in just two categories where it was a nominee: Best Audio Design, which it lost to Battlefield 6, and Players’ Voice, which was won by Wuthering Waves.
Regardless, Expedition 33 surpasses the previous record of seven wins, achieved by The Last of Us Part 2 in 2020. And it’s not far off from what we think of it, too – the game achieved an Editor’s Choice and near-perfect score in our review from earlier this year.
In accepting the GOTY award, Clair Obscur’s director Guillaume Broche also took the chance to announce, onstage, that a new content update featuring a new location, called Verso’s Drafts, along with a slew of other features and improvements, is available now.
