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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gets Major Free Update

Sandfall Interactive, fresh off of a night of wins at The Game Awards 2025, have announced a free major update for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

This update, dubbed the “Thank You Update” features a new playable area, new music, new boss battles, a photo mode and more.

As mentioned above, the game won a number of awards at the 12th annual event. Not only did Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 win Game of the Year, but it also took home awards for Best Independent Game, Best Performance (Jennifer English), Best Art Direction, Best Debut Indie Game, Best Score/Music, Best RPG, Best Narrative, and Best Game Direction.

You can check out all of the updates available to the game below. What do you think of the additions? Leave your thoughts down below and join the discussion in the official Insider Gaming Discord server.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 “Thank You” Update Detals

  • A new, playable environment, taking the characters of Expedition 33 to ‘Verso’s Drafts’ – a whimsical storybook adventure with ties to a young Verso. Players will encounter celebratory Gestrals, surprising new locations and an encounter with a sinister, powerful presence… 
  • New music tracks by Lorien Testard, the award-winning composer behind the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 soundtrack, which are also now available on digital streaming platforms. You can listen to the playlist on YouTube here
  • Challenging boss battles for late-game players to overcome within the Endless Tower. Besting these powerful adversaries will reward players with powerful new Pictos, costumes and gear. 
  • A much-requested official Photo Mode, allowing players to pause the action and commemorate their favorite moments from the game’s story and battles.  
  • New text and UI game localizations into Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai and Indonesian, bringing the total number of supported languages to 19.  
  • Added FSR 4 support, including AMD temporal upscaling for sharper visuals and frame generation for smoother gameplay on compatible GPUs. 
  • New Quality of Life improvements, other new features and further improvements to the game’s performance across platforms, including on handheld PC systems. 

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