Using Unreal Engine 5 “can be a trap”, says the dev behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 details

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 releases in 24th April, 2025 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Microsoft Windows PCs (via Steam and Epic Games Store).

Sandfall Interactive had been working on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for a number of years before the release of Unreal Engine 5 in 2022, and the team leapt at the chance to upgrade from UE4. “It was a game changer for us,” says Tom Guillermin, CTO and co-founder of Sandfall, and lead programmer on the game. The engine provided powerful lighting and geometry tech in the form of Lumen and Nanite, he says, as well as easing a lot of pain points around things like character creation.

Thank you for reading 5 articles this month* Join now for unlimited access

Enjoy your first month for just £1 / $1 / €1

*Read 5 free articles per month without a subscription

Join now for unlimited access

Try first month for just £1 / $1 / €1

TOPICS
Lewis Packwood
Video games journalist

Lewis Packwood has been writing about video games professionally since 2013, and his work has appeared in The Guardian, Retro Gamer, EDGE, Eurogamer, Wireframe, Rock Paper Shotgun, Kotaku, PC Gamer and Time Extension, among others. He is also the author of Curious Video Game Machines: A Compendium of Rare and Unusual Consoles, Computers and Coin-Ops (White Owl, 2023).

You must confirm your public display name before commenting

Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name.