This month’s sweet news suddenly turns dark, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Disqualified Game Awards due to the use of generative AI in the game. COE33 recently achieved numerous consecutive victories at The Game Awards 2025 thanks to the mechanic Rotating base unique and cool who managed to win 9 awards in an instant but now Victory COE33 was revoked by the Indie Game Awards 2025 due to this AI affair.

Information has circulated if The Indie Game Awards revoked two COE33 awards in the Game of the Year and Game Debut categories, the committee explained that the use of AI could undermine the identity of the creator of a game and of course the committee was very firm and had no tolerance in the regulations, let alone the use of generative AI in a game.

Producer François Meurisse confirmed that generative AI was used in the development process, even though the assets were removed via a patch. The Six One Indie committee took immediate action as the game was submitted with a statement no AI generationwhich apparently violates their strict rules.

Although Clair Obscur was hailed as an excellent game, the fact that its use of AI, even as a placeholder, violated the original agreement of Interactive sandfall. As a result, both awards were revoked and given to other games. Blue Prince as the new game of the year, as well Sorry, we are closed for the beginning of the game.

It turns out that this GOTY game has caused a lot of controversy on social media, especially on Facebook and other gamer forums regarding the removal of this prize, but nevertheless, the regulatory standards of prizes must still be implemented and must respect the talents developed by humans over AI.

Even though Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33 was stripped of its two wins, it still has a high rating and a strong community, perhaps Sandfall Interactive can learn this lesson for other big game projects.