In 2025, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 rose to third place in the top projects in terms of number of Game of the Year awards. Over the past 12 months, the game has received 291 awards in this category.
Thus, the video game of French studio Sandfall Interactive was able to surpass famous projects such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (281 awards) and Baldur's Gate 3 (288 awards). At the same time, Clair Obscur is worse in terms of recognition with The Last of Us Part 2 (326 awards) and Elden Ring (435 awards).
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is released on April 24 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series. On the aggregator Metacritic, the average score from critics is 92 points, from users – 9.6 points out of 10. The game tells the story of a group of people who go on a journey to defeat the Artist. She displays a number on the monolith and if a person's age matches this number then that person will die. The project was recognized as the best game of 2025 in many awards and is among the top.
