Speaking for everyone involved in the development and release of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, we want to thank you, every single one of the fans, for what an unimaginable year of success our game has had in 2025. As a show of thanks, we’re dropping a major content update to the game on PS5 right now (for free!).
The largest inclusion here is a brand-new level, “Verso’s Drafts”, featuring new environments to explore, battles to fight, and plenty of surprises to discover. The biome has a very childlike, wonderland-style aesthetic, inspired by Verso’s childhood, but you’ll see more cutscenes that elaborate on this in the update.
It goes without saying that Lorien Testard’s musical magic is back too, with new tracks added for the level.
“I lived the creation of the last songs of the OST as a farewell to this whole adventure and to the characters who have accompanied my life and imagination for five years. I’m happy to know that today it was just a goodbye… We had the chance to compose music for a very special level, a deep and playful part of Verso’s childhood. Who would have thought he loved sweets so much when he was younger?
“It gave us the opportunity to have a lot of fun, to dance and to laugh while creating these songs; you can even hear Alice’s natural laughter in one of them! And then the time came to write the last track of the album… once again, the time to say goodbye. I don’t know what tomorrow will bring, if it will be clair or obscur, but I know it’s within that in-between that dreams blossom. Thank you for dreaming with us.”
– Lorien Testard, Composer, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Take a look at the Thank You Update Trailer, featuring Verso’s Draft here:
You’ll find a plethora of unlockables in Verso’s Drafts too. There’s 13 new weapons to unlock, some having a similar vibe to the child-like environments in the level (candy scythe, anyone?). 16 additional Luminas are also available to unlock – adding even more customization and options to your combat. There’s also a bunch more costumes and hairstyles for each character, some look very chic, and some… intentionally goofy – I won’t spoil it here, but you might want to try the running animation in some of them.
Fans will be delighted to know, after many many requests, that we finally added a photo mode in the game! Not to brag, but it’s a pretty in depth one too you can add filters (33, to be exact) and effects, change the angles, field of view, color grading, and even change the location and colors of the lighting (with 10 fully customizable lights!).
Our Senior Gameplay Programmer, Florien Torres, shares his insight: “You will be able to use this during cinematics, which we expect people will get very creative with. With the photo mode camera, you can travel an infinite distance without collision – basically, the team wanted to go all in and give full access to the player, meaning they could access weird locations, even below the map and sort of ‘backstage’.”
We’re extremely excited to offer this to our fans and see what masterpieces they will create with these new tools.
This isn’t everything of course, there’s many QoL features added that players will appreciate, including adding filters when searching for Lumina’s, being able to save preset Lumina loadouts, and having the option to abandon battles (if you want, no judgement here). We’ve also added more text language support, so the game is more accessible, the new language additions include: Czech, Ukrainian, Mexican Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian, bringing the total number of supported languages to 19, with more planned for the future.
You might also catch at the very end of the trailer; an extra challenging surprise awaits! And it won’t be the only challenge for players to overcome – you can expect to find a slew of new boss battles for late-game players within the Endless Tower. Parrying your way up the tower will reward players with all new Pictos, costumes, and a bunch of other gear.
We can’t express our gratitude enough, but we hope this update helps express it in some way. Fans can play Verso’s Drafts as part of the new Thank You Update available now on PlayStation 5!
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Author: Guillaume Broche
