Clair Obscur Celebrates Award Wins with Free DLC Featuring a New Photo Mode

Everyone was buzzing about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as a top contender for The Game Awards 2025, but few anticipated its stunning sweep, taking home nine awards and setting a new record (previously held by The Last Of Us 2 with seven in 2020). Instead of taking a victory lap, Sandfall Interactive seized the moment to surprise fans with a free mini-DLC for Clair Obscur, reigniting interest in the Belle Époque RPG.

This new content, hinted at earlier this year, introduces a fresh playable area called “Verso’s Drafts,” inspired by the protagonist’s childhood. Players can also look forward to new late-game boss battles, additional Luminas and Weapons, extra costumes, and a photo mode that lets them capture their stylish moments. Check out the trailer for a sneak peek at the new area.

The photo mode features a variety of filters, and the developers are eager to see how players will creatively document the game’s cinematic moments. For those who haven’t yet experienced Clair Obscur, it’s currently available for just $40, down from its usual $50 price tag, with a 20% discount on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox until December 16. It’s also still accessible via Game Pass.

Here are the complete patch notes for the free 1.5 update:

– **Verso’s Drafts**: A new playable environment that transports the characters of Expedition 33 to an exciting new location filled with fresh enemy encounters and surprises.
– **Location**: Found on the World Map, adjacent to Lumière – Accessible from Act III.
– **Esquie’s Underwater ability** is required!
– **Localization**: New text and UI game localizations into Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian, expanding the total number of supported languages to 19, with more on the way!
– **New Costumes**: Each member of the Expedition receives new outfits, enhancing customization options for players throughout their journey.
– **New Boss Battles**: Late-game players can tackle new challenges in the Endless Tower, featuring variations of iconic bosses from the main game, designed to be even tougher.
– **New Luminas and Weapons**: Added to enhance gameplay.
– **Old Key Quest Item**: Now available in the final area of the game, previously only obtainable during the Prologue, allowing players a second chance to collect all journals in a single playthrough.
– **Photo Mode**: A creative feature with numerous settings and options for capturing favorite moments from the game, accessible anytime from the pause menu.
– **Lumina Sets**: Players can now save up to 50 different lumina loadouts to adapt to various combat strategies on the fly.
– **Abandon Battle Option**: Now available in the pause menu, even during combat.
– **HUD Scale Setting**: Players can adjust the size of in-game HUD elements from 80% to 120%.
– **FSR 4 Support**: Includes AMD temporal upscaling for sharper visuals and Frame Generation for smoother gameplay on compatible GPUs.
– **New Filters**: Added for Pictos and Luminas, along with UI improvements.
– **Input Remapping**: Now available for controllers.
– **Steam Deck and ROG Xbox Ally Certification**: The game is now certified for these platforms!
– **Text Legibility Improvements**: Global enhancements for better readability.
– **Fixed Multiple Fog and Lighting Issues**:
– Overly intense effects during the Flying Manor boss fight (also affecting some cinematics).
– Overexposed areas in the Visages.
– Overly dark areas in the Endless Tower.
– **FPS Cap Fix**: Resolved the issue of FPS being capped at 30 on Steam Deck.
– **VSync**: Can now be properly disabled in settings when playing on Steam Deck.
– **Graphic Settings**: Adjusted for Steam Deck users.
– **Improved First-Time Setup Flow**:
– Controller input is now supported in installation wizards (no longer touchscreen-only).
– External controllers now switch seamlessly with Steam Deck controls.
– **Battle Retry Fix**: Resolved an issue where using Battle Retry after a cinematic or automatic trigger could spawn the player out of the world if the last save was created in a different location.
– **Playtime Display**: Now accurately reflects total playtime, including time spent on Game Overs (Note: this fix does not retroactively update existing save files).
– **Inventory Behavior Fix**: Sort order now persists after closing the game menu.
– **Intel XeSS Frame Generation Fix**: Resolved an issue preventing this setting from being accessible on PC Game Pass.
– **Diacritic Marks Issue**: Fixed a problem where certain diacritic marks (e.g., ^, ~, ´, `) in Windows were blocked after launching the title.
– **Breaking Death Fix**: Adjusted so it only breaks the enemy that caused the character’s death, rather than all enemies.
– **Turn Order Fix**: Characters’ turn order during a First Strike now correctly respects their Speed.
– **Critical Chance Fix**: Boucharo now gives +50% Critical chance instead of +150%.
– **Luminas Damage Fix**: Resolved unintended hidden +10% damage for certain Luminas, including Sweet Kill, Teamwork, Dead Energy II, First Strike, and others.