Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has won big at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, taking home the trophy in every category under which it was up for consideration, including Ultimate Game of the Year. With The Game Awards 2025 just a few weeks away, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's new batch of Golden Joysticks is already making the proverbial trophy shelf seem pretty crowded, in addition to the previous awards the game has won.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was instantly a hit, selling half a million copies in its first day alone. It has "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews on Steam, with a 97 percent player approval rating on that platform, and a perfect 100 player rating on OpenCritic, which serves as a testament to its quality of artistic storytelling and fans' appreciation for its combination of turn-based combat with more modern gameplay innovations.

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All Golden Joystick Awards Won by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

  • Ultimate Game of the Year
  • Best Storytelling
  • Best Visual Design
  • Best Soundtrack
  • Best Lead Performer (Jennifer English)
  • Best Supporting Performer (Ben Starr)

Presented on November 20, The Golden Joystick Awards bestowed its highest honor upon Sandfall Interactive's RPG, along with the awards for Best Storytelling, Best Visual Design, and Best Soundtrack. A couple of members of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's vocal cast rounded out the game's awards at the ceremony, with Jennifer English winning Best Lead Performer for her role as Maelle and Ben Star, who plays Verso, taking home Best Supporting Performer. Additionally, Sandfall Interactive won Studio of the Year, putting an extra feather in its cap, especially considering that the game with the second-highest number of awards, Ghost of Yotei, won only two.

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These award wins come just days after Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 set a record for nominations at The Game Awards, with a total of 12, including a nod for Game of the Year. The official list of nominees for The Game Awards 2025 was announced on November 17, and the awards will be handed out on December 11. However, the game only has a shot at taking home a total of 10 trophies at that show, as English, Starr, and Charlie Cox, who plays Gustave, are all nominated for Best Performance. They're up against Erika Ishii for her role as Atsu in Ghost of Yotei, Konatsu Kato as Hinako Shimizu in Silent Hill f, and Troy Baker as the titular character in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

Gustave fighting Sophie in Clair Obscur Expedition 33

While the Golden Joystick wins have showcased the RPG's success and quality, they're not its only awards so far. It also won the Breakthrough Award at the Japan Game Awards in September and the Narrative/Storytelling award from TIGA in early November, along with picking up four wins at October's Thailand Game Awards, including Game of the Year. Additionally, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's music has earned high praise, with composer Lorien Testard winning the Game Music Award at the World Soundtrack Awards in October.

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Fantasy
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Top Critic Avg: 92 /100 Critics Rec: 97%
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Released
April 24, 2025
ESRB
Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence
Developer(s)
Sandfall Interactive
Publisher(s)
Kepler Interactive
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Once a year, the Paintress wakes and paints upon her monolith. Paints her cursed number. And everyone of that age turns to smoke and fades away. Year by year, that number ticks down and more of us are erased. Tomorrow she’ll wake and paint “33.” And tomorrow we depart on our final mission - Destroy the Paintress, so she can never paint death again.

We are Expedition 33.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a ground-breaking turn-based RPG with unique real-time mechanics, making battles more immersive and addictive than ever. Explore a fantasy world inspired by Belle Époque France in which you battle devastating enemies.

Number of Players
Single-player
Steam Deck Compatibility
Playable
PC Release Date
April 24, 2025
Xbox Series X|S Release Date
April 24, 2025
PS5 Release Date
April 24, 2025
Genre(s)
Turn-Based RPG, JRPG, Fantasy
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty
How Long To Beat
29 hours
X|S Optimized
Yes
File Size Xbox Series
42.33 GB