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