For the price of one Marvel's Spider-Man 2, you could make roughly 30 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33s, as developer reveals 2025's indie darling cost less than $10 million to make

For the price of one Marvel's Spider-Man 2, you could make roughly 30 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33s, as developer reveals 2025's indie darling cost less than $10 million to make


Yet, even that is a small number in the larger AAA space, where budgets for some of the biggest franchises in the world balloon up to $300 or even $700 million – in the cases of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, respectively. Sandfall also chose to save money by offloading battle animations – a part of the finished game that has received a tremendous amount of praise – to a team in Korea. The proof is in the pudding, as Clair Obscur has sold more than five million copies and is the favorite to come home with some, if not all, of the twelve Game Awards it is nominated for.

Author: Willa Rowe


Published at: 2025-12-11 22:43:55

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