Overview
- Sandfall announced that its members were received at the Ministry of Culture and awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, sharing photos of the ceremony and medallions.
- France’s culture minister Rachida Dati praised the studio’s work as an “exceptional success” that now forms part of the nation’s shared cultural heritage, according to remarks reported from the event.
- Some coverage described the team as knighted and linked the medallions to the Ordre de Saint‑Michel, a characterization that differs from Sandfall’s explicit reference to the Order of Arts and Letters.
- The honor follows the RPG’s dominant awards run, including nine Game Awards, hundreds of year‑end citations, and reported sales of about six million copies.
- The developer has begun work on a new game set in the Clair Obscur universe, extending the studio’s cultural footprint.