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Over on X, the most talked-about RPG developer of 2025 visited Square Enix, and fans are now begging for a collaboration of any kind between the two.
The debate over the direction of role-playing games has raged on for years. There's been a little extra fuel to the fire in 2025 with the success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 though, as its a ...
Expedition 33 is one of the biggest surprise gaming hits of 2025 and a traditional turn-based role-playing game that reminded many fans of the golden-era of PlayStation 1 JRPGs they still pine for.
In an interview with RPG Site, Sandfall Interactive co-founder and Expedition 33 producer François Meurisse spoke about his ...
Expedition 33 studio Sandfall Interactive commented on its plans moving forward, revealing some interesting insights.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developers recently went to Japan, where, alongside Hideo Kojima, they met with Square Enix – and received what might just be the highest form of praise from a JRPG ...
Imagining a game as beautiful as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 getting even prettier is a tall task, but there’s one thing that ...
Square Enix has demonstrated success with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s turn-based combat mechanics. As a result, the company possesses compelling reasons to reevaluate the foundational systems ...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads follow up meeting their JRPG idols at Square Enix to exchange "visions and ideas" with praise from another genre icon over dinner: "My favorite game" ...
It's kind of heartening that where Western developers – like Clair Obscur's Sandfall Interactive – are starting to bring JRPG combat staples to Western RPGs, Square Enix is flirting with the ...
More specifically, they asked if this game’s success could persuade Square Enix to bring the next mainline Final Fantasy games back to its roots with turn-based combat.