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Steam News30 July 202627d ago

Update 0.5.0 | The Painted Smile DLC Available Now!

Hello! Eclipse Anomaly Research – The Painted Smile DLC is now available FREE for everyone! The DLC launches alongside Update 0.5.0, which brings a variety of fixes and improvements to the base game.

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What changed

3 fixes6 additions7 changes0 removals
  • Store
  • Gameplay
  • Fixes
  • UI and audio
  • Performance
addedEclipse Anomaly Research – The Painted Smile DLC is now available FREE for everyone!
changedThe DLC launches alongside Update 0.5.0, which brings a variety of fixes and improvements to the base game.
addedTaking place weeks after the main story, a new protagonist, Haylee Myers, is sent to an abandoned hotel after the ERU determines that an anomaly outbreak has occurred.
addedSurvive 5 nights until extraction while investigating and reporting anomalies. But Haylee must also keep a terrifying new threat at bay if she hopes to make it out alive.
addedNew location
addedNew protagonist: Haylee Myers

Eclipse: Anomaly Research changes

addedEclipse Anomaly Research – The Painted Smile DLC is now available FREE for everyone!
changedThe DLC launches alongside Update 0.5.0, which brings a variety of fixes and improvements to the base game.
addedTaking place weeks after the main story, a new protagonist, Haylee Myers, is sent to an abandoned hotel after the ERU determines that an anomaly outbreak has occurred.
addedSurvive 5 nights until extraction while investigating and reporting anomalies. But Haylee must also keep a terrifying new threat at bay if she hopes to make it out alive.
addedNew location

Eclipse Anomaly Research – The Painted Smile DLC is now available FREE for everyone!

The DLC launches alongside Update 0.5.0, which brings a variety of fixes and improvements to the base game.

To celebrate the release, Eclipse Anomaly Research is also on sale!

Eclipse Anomaly Research – The Painted Smile

Taking place weeks after the main story, a new protagonist, Haylee Myers, is sent to an abandoned hotel after the ERU determines that an anomaly outbreak has occurred.

Survive 5 nights until extraction while investigating and reporting anomalies. But Haylee must also keep a terrifying new threat at bay if she hopes to make it out alive.

Features

  • New location

  • New protagonist: Haylee Myers

  • Anomaly-focused gameplay

  • New AI threat: "The Jestress"

Update 0.5.0

Improvements & Fixes

  • Menu improvements

  • Fixed ESC sometimes not working in menus

  • Fixed the "Anomaly Purge" upgrade UI mismatch

  • Content Manager improvements

  • Performance improvements

  • Fixed the Upgrade Shack UI sometimes failing to create buttons correctly

  • General gameplay fixes and improvements

Thank you for your support, and I hope you enjoy The Painted Smile!

Source

Steam News / 30 July 2026

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