The runaway success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 surprised just about everyone. You'd probably find a few people who thought the game would be amazing, but you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who thought it would be a genre-defining RPG. It's an amazing game that has become the highest rated game of all time, sitting at 92 on Metacritic.
Its success even seems to have come as a surprise to almost everyone at Sandfall Interactive, much to the dismay of many who made a series of ridiculous bets on exactly where they thought the game's Metacritic score would end up. Understandably, almost everyone who bet lost pretty spectacularly.
We all loved Clair Obscur so much that it made someone beatbox
That's according to Expedition 33 writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen, who in a recent interview with IGN listed all the weird and wacky things the Sandfall developers had to do after they were all blown away by the game's Metacritic score. One of the daredevils involved a chicken.
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“There's a whole list of things that people have to do if the Metacritic score is above a certain number,” says Svedberg-Yen. “Some people already… I think one person had to eat chicken, roast chicken in one sitting at a certain time while another is beatboxing. There's a lot of random stuff.”
He goes on to explain that one person promised to dye her hair, which ended up being pink, while another promised to perform a stand-up comedy routine, which she apparently did. A few others have vowed to get tattoos and mark themselves forever with their own arrogance, but I'm sure they'll live on knowing they made one of the best games of recent times.
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April 24, 2025
- ESRB
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Older 17+ / Blood and gore, violent language, obscene themes, violence
- Developers
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Sandfall Interactive
- Publishers
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Interactive Kepler
