Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which secured Game of the Year at TGA 2025, recently received a significant update, making it Steam Deck Verified.
The ‘Thank You’ update introduces several key enhancements:
- A new playable environment, expanding the characters’ adventures.
- New music tracks composed by the award-winning Lorien Testard.
- Challenging boss battles for late-game players in the Endless Tower.
- An official Photo Mode, enabling players to creatively capture favorite moments from the game’s story and battles.
- New text and UI localizations in Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian, increasing the total supported languages to 19.
- Quality of Life improvements, new features, and enhanced game performance across all platforms, including handheld PC systems.
Valve retested the game, elevating its status to Steam Deck Verified due to these improvements. It now defaults to Proton 10, an upgrade from the previous Proton 9.
New Content
- Verso’s Drafts, a new playable environment, transports Expedition 33 characters to a new location featuring fresh enemy encounters and discoveries.
- This area is found on the World Map, adjacent to Lumière, and is accessible from Act III.
- Esquie’s Underwater ability is necessary to access it.
- New text and UI localizations have been added for Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian, expanding the total supported languages to 19, with further additions planned.
- New costumes are available for each Expedition member, offering additional customization choices for players.
- New, more challenging boss battles, variations of iconic main game bosses, have been added for late-game players in the Endless Tower.
- New Luminas and Weapons have been introduced.
- The ‘Old Key’ quest item is now available in the game’s final area. Previously only found during the Prologue, this provides players a second opportunity to collect all journals in one playthrough.
New Features
- A Photo Mode has been added, offering numerous settings and options for creative capture of favorite game moments, accessible from the pause menu at any time.
- The Lumina Sets feature allows players to save up to 50 different Lumina loadouts, enabling adaptation to various fighting tactics.
- An ‘Abandon Battle’ option is now available in the pause menu, accessible during combat.
- A HUD Scale setting permits players to adjust in-game HUD element size from 80% to 120%.
- FSR 4 support has been implemented, featuring AMD temporal upscaling for sharper visuals and Frame Generation for smoother gameplay on compatible GPUs.
- New filters for Pictos and Luminas have been added, alongside UI improvements.
- Controller input remapping has been added.
Handheld PC Improvements
- The game is now certified for Steam Deck and ROG Xbox Ally.
- Overall text legibility has been improved.
- Multiple fog and lighting issues have been resolved, including:
- Overly intense effects during the Flying Manor boss fight (which also affected some cinematics).
- Overexposed areas in the Visages.
- Overly dark areas in the Endless Tower.
- The 30 FPS cap on Steam Deck has been fixed.
- VSync can now be correctly disabled in settings when playing on Steam Deck.
- Graphic settings are now optimized for Steam Deck users.
- The first-time setup flow has been improved, with:
- Controller input now supported in installation wizards (no longer touchscreen-only).
- External controllers now seamlessly integrate with Steam Deck controls.
Bug Fixes
- An issue where using Battle Retry after a cinematic or automatic trigger could spawn the player outside the world if the last save was in a different location has been fixed.
- Playtime displayed on save files now accurately reflects total playtime, including time spent on Game Overs. (Note: this fix does not retroactively update existing save files.)
- Inventory behavior has been fixed, so sort order now persists after closing the game menu.
- An issue preventing the Intel XeSS Frame Generation setting from being accessible on PC Game Pass has been resolved.
- An issue blocking the use of specific diacritic marks (e.g., ^, ~, ´, `) in Windows after launching the game has been fixed.
- Breaking Death no longer breaks all enemies when a character dies; it now only affects the enemy that killed the character. Consequently, it will not activate if the character defeats themselves.
- Characters’ turn order during a First Strike, triggered by attacking an enemy on the map, now correctly respects characters’ Speed.
- Boucharo’s critical chance bonus has been corrected from +150% to +50%.
- Several Luminas that were unintentionally providing a hidden +10% damage bonus have been fixed, including:
- Sweet Kill
- Teamwork
- Dead Energy II
- First Strike and others
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was released on April 24th, 2025, and runs on Proton / Wine.
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