- Sandfall Interactive CEO and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director Guillaume Broche has said that the studio’s next game will not be a major development
- Broche explained that it could scale up “now we have a lot more money, but I would say it’s not tempting for us”
- Broche and the team were apparently surprised by the game’s success
Sandfall Interactive has said it won’t be expanding the scope of its next game, despite that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33huge success.
In a recent interview with Edge magazine, Sandfall CEO and Creative Director Guillaume Broche discussed the development of Game of the Year 2025 and answered questions about what’s next for the indie studio, which consists of a small core team.
When asked if Sandfall’s next game would be a larger-scale development, he explained that there is no interest in expanding the scope.
“No, I think it’s good to have limitations when you’re creative. It’s the best way to be the best version of yourself,” said Broche.
“We could scale up now that we have a lot more money, but I’d say it’s not tempting for us, because even the management team and myself, we’d have to be hands-on and do things for ourselves. We love making games more than we love managing, so we want to keep doing that. The last five years have been some of the best of my life, and I want to be happy that way again.”
Clair Obscur made history at The Game Awards 2025 by taking nine awards out of 12 nominations. It’s fair to say that the game has achieved incredible success as Sandfall’s debut game, so much so that the team couldn’t believe the reception.
“It was completely unexpected from pretty much everyone,” Broche said. “What really surprised us the most is how much the narrative and the cinematography and the story resonated with people. That’s the hardest thing to quantify because it’s always something very personal. So the fact that this worked so well, pretty much instantly, is where we were like, ‘OK, this is a hundred times what we expected.'”
Producer François Meurisse added: “Part of my job is always to ‘plan for the worst, hope for the best’, so I forbade myself from getting too much hope. A lot of my job is to manage the expectations of the team, so the whole production was a lot of horrible scenarios for how things could go wrong. But it was worth it because we far exceeded the best.”
As for what’s next, Broche has previously revealed that Expedition 33 is “not the end” of the series and that “Clair Obscur is the franchise name.”
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