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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

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Why they shine

The French indie RPG from Sandfall Interactive that became gaming's biggest night's biggest winner — nine awards, a TGA record.

Developer: Sandfall Interactive
Publisher: Kepler Interactive
Release: 2025
Record: Most wins at a single TGA ceremony (9)

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Honor record

The Game Awards — Game of the Year

2025 · Dec 11, 2025

Peacock Theater, Los Angeles

Won Game of the Year at TGA 2025 — plus Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score, Best Performance (Jennifer English), Best RPG, Best Independent Game and Best Debut — nine awards in total, a record for a single ceremony.

The Game Award for Best Game Direction

2025 · Dec 12, 2025

Peacock Theater, Los Angeles

Sandfall's ~30-person team took Best Game Direction, the prize that measures vision rather than budget, for a turn-based RPG made in France by first-time game directors Guillaume Broche and the Expedition 33 leads.

The Game Award for Best Narrative

2025 · Dec 12, 2025

Peacock Theater, Los Angeles

The story of an expedition sent to end aPaintress who erases everyone of a certain age each year won Best Narrative, praised for a script that treats death and grief as game mechanics rather than set dressing.

The Game Award for Best Art Direction

2025 · Dec 12, 2025

Peacock Theater, Los Angeles

Expedition 33's Belle Époque Paris, reimagined through Unreal Engine 5 and a painterly palette, won Best Art Direction over titles with far larger art teams.

The Game Award for Best Score and Music

2025 · Dec 12, 2025

Peacock Theater, Los Angeles

Lorien Testard's eight-hour score won the music prize for the studio that found him on SoundCloud, blending French neoclassicism with electronic breakbeats.

The Game Award for Best Role Playing Game

2025 · Dec 12, 2025

Peacock Theater, Los Angeles

The reactive turn-based combat system, which rewards timed dodges and parries inside classic ATB structure, took Best RPG and reignited the conversation about turn-based design in AAA.