Kotaku Sunday, December 21, 2025 9:30 AM
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Kotaku Sunday, December 21, 2025 8:30 AM
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Kotaku Sunday, December 21, 2025 7:30 AM
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PCGamesN Sunday, December 21, 2025 9:32 AM The Indie Game Awards has retracted two prizes for Clair Obscur Expedition 33 after discussions around Sandfall Interactive's use of gen-AI. |
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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Sunday, December 21, 2025 6:59 AM  Clair Obscur gripped me within the first minutes of its dramatic prologue. A turn-based RPG with a Belle Époque, steampunky aesthetic and a bleak world of monsters and magic? I know they say not to put a hat on a hat, but when that hat's a beret… magnifique. The story opens with the people of Lumière celebrating its annual get-together where the Paintress, a sobbing giant beyond the city's shores, etches a number into a cliff, and hundreds of onlookers immediately evaporate into petals and smoke. |
Siliconera Sunday, December 21, 2025 9:00 AM
There are a lot of decoration applications that sort of fall into the cozy game category, even though they are light on the actual mechanical elements. Little Corners is one of those. There are some interactive elements and opportunities to combine stickers for certain reactions. However, it's largely an opportunity to relax and set up scenes without too many extra features like a zoom or snap-to element. Playing with Little Corners is essentially like playing with the reusable Colorforms sticker sets.
Now, when I say that Little Corners feels like Colorforms, it's almost the exact same experience. There are eight scenes you can visit, which are the Adventurer's Tavern, Alchemist's Tower, Astronomer's Study, Cottage Kitchen, Overgrown Ruins, Pirate's Cabin, Samurai's Residence, and Viking's Hall. When you get to a place, it is a blank slate with a isometric view of two walls in the room and the floor space. You get a handful of "sheets" that appear on the left side of the screen that highlight some stickers you can use. (These can be flipped.) You then drag and drop the into place in order to set the scene to your liking.
Now, there are some interactive elements here, but there aren't too many. As I mentioned, some quality of life elements aren't there. Certain elements like doors or things that would go over ovens or pots won't snap into place. You custom arrange everything. There's also no way to zoom in on elements or to resize the stickers you're placing. Everything shows up and goes in as-is. You can engage in some layering, based on when you place things. But go in knowing the actual arranging can be a bit rudimentary and doesn't involve the kind of sticker experimentation like in a game such as Sticky Business. It's pleasant, but you're working in set confines with defined sizes and color palettes.
I do appreciate that there are some set elements and surprises, however. You can get different display options for things like fireplaces or shelving units. Areas can be covered by doors or opened. But the most pleasant occasions involve combining two stickers and being treated to an entirely new one. For example, layering up the broom and witch hat stickers in the Cottage Kitchen, perhaps by hanging the hat on the end of the broomstick, nets you a black cat sticker. It's a pleasant opportunity.
Another element that may be a hit or miss for you with Little Corners is that I found it features a lot of… well… brown. Many, many shades of brown. And gray. I wish it was a little more bright and colorful at times, and I found it surprising that Overgrown Ruins ended up being basically the "brightest" area in my experience. This means some elements can blend together a little, and other stickers and decorations might not stand out as much. So while I referenced Colorforms a lot when talking about Little Corners, this sticker room decoration game isn't nearly as colorful and vibrant as most of those sets were.
Little Corners is like an opportunity to return to the times of playing with Colorforms and sticker books to decorate a room. There aren't customization features, in terms of things like resizing or recoloring. There aren't tons of interactions. But it is very relaxing to go through the eight different areas and arrange things to your liking. And when you do happen upon a special combination of stickers to unlock something, it can feel pretty special. I just wish there was a little bit more to it.
Little Corners is available for PCs via Steam and itch.io.
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Destructoid Sunday, December 21, 2025 10:01 AM
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has swept through every single award show it has appeared on, claiming the most The Game Awards wins of all time. It's a stellar game, one that revolutionized its genre, but also proved that games are a true art form.
However, the Indie Game Awards disqualified it, not because of its strange funding and debatable "indie" status, but its use of AI.
This was confirmed by the Indie Game Awards itself, who posted a statement on its FAQ page explaining why Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was excluded from the awards on the day of the ceremony, given that it was already nominated for the Debut Game and Game of the Year categories. It explained that IGA has a "hard stance" regarding the use of AI in video game development and that it had, prior to the ceremony, been told by Sandfall that no AI was used in the production of Expedition 33.
However, Sandfall Interactive did say it used "some AI" when making Expedition 33 a few months ago (via El Pais), which apparently came to the IGA's attention on the day the ceremony was supposed to take place.
"In light of Sandfall Interactive confirming the use of gen AI art in production on the day of the Indie Game Awards 2025 premiere, this does disqualify Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 from its nomination," the organization said.
"While the assets in question were patched out, and it is a wonderful game, it does go against the regulations we have in place," it added.
The IGA has heavy-handed regulations when it comes to the use of generative artificial intelligence models, but are apparently willing to rework and reconsider its guidelines for future ceremonies, given how popular the technology is becoming (unfortunately).
Even so, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been excluded from at least one major awards show, though not that it really matters. It won every category it was nominated for at the 2025 Golden Joysticks, took home nine Game Awards, and was even crowned Destructoid's own Game of the Year (even the community agreed).
The post Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was disqualified from the Indie Game Awards—but not for the reasons you think appeared first on Destructoid. |
iDev Games Feed Sunday, December 21, 2025 7:29 AM hief Simulator is a comprehensive burglary simulation game where you play as a professional thief. The game features photorealistic SVG graphics, stealth-based... |