Over the weekend, The Indie Recreation Awards shook up its winner’s circle by stripping Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of its Recreation of the Yr Award over the writer’s use of AI. As an alternative, indie-darling Blue Prince was declared the brand new Recreation of the Yr winner. Now, writer Uncooked Fury desires to ensure everybody is aware of that Blue Prince wasn’t made with AI of any form.
In a press release launched on X, Uncooked Fury credited Tonda Ros and his crew for a recreation that “was constructed and crafted with full human intuition … It’s the results of eight years of improvement [fueled] by creativeness and creativity, and we’re extraordinarily pleased with what Tonda has achieved.”
For those who want affirmation:
There isn’t any AI utilized in Blue Prince. The sport was constructed and crafted with full human intuition by Tonda Ros @dogubomb & his crew. It’s the results of eight years of improvement, fuelled by creativeness and creativity, and we’re extraordinarily pleased with… pic.twitter.com/zdbqp6xnKy— Uncooked Fury I ROUTINE IS OUT NOW (@RawFury) December 21, 2025
Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle recreation that casts gamers as Simon P. Jones, a person who is about to inherit a mysterious mansion known as the Mt. Holly Property following the loss of life of his nice uncle Herbert S. Sinclair. There are 45 rooms identified to be within the mansion, and Simon has to seek out the hidden forty sixth room so as to declare his inheritance. Nevertheless, the format of the mansion modifications every evening, and Simon largely has to begin from scratch if he cannot discover it in time.
The sport additionally permits Simon to analyze mysteries which can be extra carefully linked to his personal previous than he initially suspects. Not each thriller within the recreation is solved, however that solely provides to the emotional impression of all the narrative. Blue Prince was additionally considered one of 2025’s best-reviewed video games.
In Could, Ros was very clear that Blue Prince is not going to obtain any DLC or expansions sooner or later.
“It had at all times been my dream to launch a definitive model of the sport at launch,” wrote Ros. “I am an enormous fan of full standalone experiences and it was by no means my plan to repeatedly tinker with the sport with common content material updates, room rebalancing, or DLC and the like.”
Blue Prince is out now on Xbox Sequence X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC.