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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is now Steam Deck Verified with a big update

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Last updated: 12 Dec 2025 at 11:44 am UTC

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 not only won the Game of the Year at TGA 2025, but they also just launched a major upgrade that gets it Steam Deck Verified.

The Thank You update brings in these highlights:

  • A new, playable environment, taking the characters to new adventures...
  • Brand new music tracks by award-winning composer, Lorien Testard.
  • Challenging boss battles for late-game players to overcome within the Endless Tower.
  • An official Photo Mode, allowing players to get creative and capture their favourite 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.
  • New Quality of Life improvements, other new features, and additional improvements to the game’s performance across platforms, including on handheld PC systems.

Valve gave it a retest and bumped it up to Steam Deck Verified thanks to the improvements, with it set to Proton 10 by default now too (previously it was set to Proton 9).

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New Content

  • Verso's Drafts, a new playable environment, taking the characters of Expedition 33 to a brand-new location with new enemy encounters and surprises to discover :)
    • Located on the World Map, next to Lumière - Accessible from Act III
    • Esquie’s Underwater ability is required!
  • 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, with more to come!
  • New costumes for each member of the Expedition, giving even more customization options for players throughout their adventure
  • New boss battles for late-game players to overcome in the Endless Tower - They are variations of iconic bosses from the main game, designed to be even more challenging
  • Added new Luminas and Weapons
  • Added the "Old Key" quest item to the final area of the game - Previously obtainable only during the Prologue, this addition gives players a second chance to collect all journals within a single playthrough

New Features

  • Added Photo Mode with plenty of settings and options for players to get creative with while capturing your favourite moments from the game, accessible at any time from the pause menu!
  • Added Lumina Sets feature, allowing players to save up to 50 different lumina loadouts for adapting to plenty of different fighting tactics at any moment
  • Added Abandon Battle option in the pause menu which can now be opened in battle
  • Added HUD Scale setting, allowing players to adjust the size of in-game HUD elements from 80% to 120%
  • Added FSR 4 support, including AMD temporal upscaling for sharper visuals and Frame Generation for smoother gameplay on compatible GPUs
  • Added new filters for Pictos and Luminas and improved the UI
  • Added input remapping for controller

Handheld PC improvements

  • The game is now certified on Steam Deck and ROG Xbox Ally!
  • Global improvement of text legibility
  • Fixed multiple fog and lighting issues:
    • Overly intense effects during the Flying Manor boss fight (which also impacted some cinematics)
    • Overexposed areas in the Visages
    • Overly dark areas in the Endless Tower
  • Fixed FPS being capped at 30 on Steam Deck
  • VSync can now be properly disabled in the settings when playing on Steam Deck
  • Graphic settings are now 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 the Steam Deck controls

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed 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
  • The 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.)
  • Fixed inventory behaviour so that sort order now persists after closing the game menu
  • Fixed issue preventing Intel XeSS Frame Generation setting from being accessible on PC Game Pass
  • Fixed an issue where the usage of particular diacritic marks (e.g. ^, ~, ´, `) in Windows is blocked after launching the title
  • Fixed Breaking Death always breaking all enemies when the character dies, it should only break the enemy that killed the character - As a result, it shouldn’t work when the character kills themself anymore
  • Characters' turn order during a First Strike, triggered by attacking an enemy on the map, now correctly respects characters' Speed
  • Fixed Boucharo giving +150% Critical chance instead of +50% Critical chance
  • Fixed some Luminas giving unintended hidden +10% damage:
    • Sweet Kill
    • Teamwork
    • Dead Energy II
    • First Strike and others

Wonderful to see. Maybe now I'll actually play it. Yes, I know, I'm behind on games as usual. There's too many amazing experiences releasing all the time - over 19,000 releases on Steam this year! Madness.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Release Date: 24th April 2025
Platform: Proton / Wine

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