{"id":18813,"date":"2025-05-14T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/baroque-breakout-hit-clair-obscur-expedition-33-is-unlike-any-game-youve-played-before\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:37:18","slug":"baroque-breakout-hit-clair-obscur-expedition-33-is-unlike-any-game-youve-played-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/baroque-breakout-hit-clair-obscur-expedition-33-is-unlike-any-game-youve-played-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Baroque breakout hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is unlike any game you\u2019ve played before"},"content":{"rendered":"

This might be the most French game ever \u2013 but there is more to the small-scale development of this belle \u00e9poque-inspired beauty than you think<\/p>\n

Much has been made of the fact that the year\u2019s most recent breakout hit, an idiosyncratic role-playing game called Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, was made by a small team. (It has just sold its two-millionth copy). It\u2019s a tempting narrative in this age of blockbuster mega-flops<\/a>, live-service games<\/a> and eye-watering budgets<\/a>: scrappy team makes a lengthy, unusual and beautiful thing, sells it for \u00a340, and everybody wins. But it\u2019s not quite <\/em>accurate.<\/p>\n

Sandfall Interactive, the game\u2019s French developer, comprises around 30 people, but as Rock Paper Shotgun points out<\/a>, there are many more listed in the game\u2019s credits \u2013 from a Korean animation team to the outsourced quality assurance testers, and the localisation and performance staff who give the game and its story heft and emotional believability.<\/p>\n

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\nThis might be the most French game ever \u2013 but there is more to the small-scale development of this belle \u00e9poque-inspired beauty than you think
\nMuch has been made of the fact that the year\u2019s most recent breakout hit, an idiosyncratic role-playing game called Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, was made by a small team. (It has just sold its two-millionth copy). It\u2019s a tempting narrative in this age of blockbuster mega-flops, live-service games and eye-watering budgets: scrappy team makes a lengthy, unusual and beautiful thing, sells it for \u00a340, and everybody wins. But it\u2019s not quite accurate.
\nSandfall Interactive, the game\u2019s French developer, comprises around 30 people, but as Rock Paper Shotgun points out, there are many more listed in the game\u2019s credits \u2013 from a Korean animation team to the outsourced quality assurance testers, and the localisation and performance staff who give the game and its story heft and emotional believability. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This might be the most French game ever \u2013 but there is more to the small-scale development of this belle \u00e9poque-inspired beauty than you think Much has been made of the fact that the year\u2019s most recent breakout hit, an idiosyncratic role-playing game called Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, was made by a small team. (It …<\/p>\n

Baroque breakout hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is unlike any game you\u2019ve played before<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}