It turns out that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wasn't always based in France – the turn-based RPG was, in fact, originally planned to be set in Victorian-era England.
Lead writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen confirms as much in a recent episode of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Game Maker's Notebook on YouTube, recalling how she met director Guillaume Broche. Amusingly, she actually first reached out to Broche after he posted on Reddit, looking for voice actors for his "ambitious AA game project" – the game project that would end up becoming Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 later on down the line.
