Despite a strong year for games in 2025, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been picking up Game of the Year awards left and right. So much so that just three weeks into 2026, with GOTY awards for 2025 still being handed out, Expedition 33 has now won more of them than any other game in history.
ResetEra's thorough GOTY awards tracker has been keeping an eye on Expedition 33's progress for weeks. It became the game with the second most awards at the turn of the year, and its campaign to be the best ever continued as it sailed past 400 awards last week.
To become the very best and top the pile, however, it needed to amass a total than the huge figure Elden Ring achieved in 2022. Winning 435 awards and smashing past The Last of Us Part 2's previous record of 326, it felt like Elden Ring's record might never be broken. Here we are, just three years later, and Expedition 33 now leads the pack.
It's not over yet, either, of course. Even though 2025 is in the rearview mirror, there are still more awards to be handed out. The rate at which they...
