- Primary Subject: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Key Update: Expedition 33 reaches 436 GOTY wins and is being treated as the new all-time record
- Status: Reported
- Last Verified: January 21, 2026
- Quick Answer: ResetEra awards tracking credits Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with 436 Game of the Year wins, which is widely being framed as surpassing Elden Ring’s low-to-mid 400s record depending on tracker rules, though the run has also been complicated by its Indie Game Awards disqualification tied to generative AI concerns.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn’t just collect GOTY wins. It overwhelmed the 2025 awards season to the point where the stats are now historic.
From late 2025 into early 2026, the Sandfall Interactive RPG has dominated year-end lists with remarkable consistency, and Angie’s ResetEra awards-tracking thread now credits it with 436 Game of the Year wins as of January 20, 2026, while the next-closest 2025 title, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, trails far behind at 38.
So Did Expedition 33 Really Beat Elden Ring?
Yes — Expedition 33 hitting 436 GOTY wins is being treated as the point where it definitively surpassed Elden Ring as the most-awarded GOTY winner on record, based on long-running outlet-based community tracking.
Elden Ring has long been treated as the modern benchmark for this record because its 2022 awards sweep was so massive that it became the standard everyone compared later winners to.
Depending on the exact tracker and eligibility rules being used, Elden Ring’s record is typically cited in the low-to-mid 400s, which is why the moment Expedition 33 crossed into the 400+ range already felt significant and why hitting 436 is now being talked about as a definitive record-breaker.
What makes this run feel even more unreal is the speed of the increase, as the tally reportedly surged by “dozens in a week” while more critics’ lists and late awards kept rolling in after December.
At the same time, it hasn’t been a perfectly clean victory lap either. Expedition 33 is still piling up accolades, but it hasn’t been free of controversy, especially after the Indie Game Awards disqualified it following generative AI concerns.
That doesn’t rewrite the overall story or undo the scale of its awards dominance, but it does complicate the universal praise narrative and gives skeptics an easy example to cite when talking about its legacy.
Still, footnote aside, the main takeaway is that Expedition 33 didn’t merely take Game of the Year — it did so on a scale that rivals the industry’s biggest GOTY sweeps.
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