Downloadable Content

DragonSword: Awakening sells one base package and a set of optional cosmetic add-ons. Nineteen store items were live within the first ten days of release: an edition upgrade, five costume sets, twelve Familiars, and two summer costumes added on July 31. None of them affect power. Every Hero and every meaningful piece of equipment comes out of the story and in-world activities, which is the core promise of the Buy-to-Play Model.

Editions

Costumes

Each costume ships with a matching weapon skin, and several include toggles for accessories such as eyepatches and headpieces. Five sets went on sale at launch for $3.99 each. Hound13 said before release that the launch costumes cover Ornette, Cerese, Theresia, Dana, and Kalsion, and that Kalien's costume is hidden in a secret in-world location instead of being sold.

Summer Sea Set

The first post-launch cosmetic drop arrived with patch 1.0.6 on July 31. Three swimsuit costumes, each with its own weapon skin, priced at $7.99 apiece with a ten percent launch discount for two weeks and a thirty percent saving on the three-item bundle. Buyers who already owned part of the set could complete it at the difference.

Cerese's set went live in the game files ahead of its store page. Hound13 confirmed on July 31 that the items were visible in-game but not yet purchasable, and explained that the three swimsuit sets had been brought forward from their original schedule, that one of them was missing content and had gone back for storefront re-review, and that the other two had passed. Moonlight on the Night Sea went on sale on August 6. Its own launch discount then failed to apply, which Hound13 acknowledged the following day, saying the cause had not been identified and that it was waiting on the storefront's support team.

Familiars

Roughly thirty Familiars exist in the game. About two-thirds are collected through play; the rest are sold. Paid and earned Familiars are functionally identical, since the shared species abilities unlock by collecting more of the same type regardless of where a given one came from. Eleven were on the store in the first ten days, ten of them at $3.99 and the Abyssal Direwolf at $7.99, with the Brave Baby Dragon sold only inside the Deluxe Pack.

The Free Familiar Window

The Abyssal Direwolf was given away from launch until August 31, 2026 at 07:00 KST, which is August 30 at 15:00 Pacific, in place of the pre-purchase bonus Hound13 could not offer as a first-time publisher. Adding it to a Steam library inside that window kept it permanently; the window has closed and the store lists it at its regular $7.99 since September 1, 2026, with no discount as of September 21. The wolf is a ground mount, and patch 1.0.4 fixed a bug that applied fall damage when remounting or boost-jumping after dismounting it.

How to Claim Purchased Items

Store purchases do not appear automatically in the field. A Familiar has to be claimed through Main Menu, then Codex, then Familiar. A costume is claimed through Main Menu, then Heroes, then the character it belongs to, then Costume.

Physical Merchandise

The first official physical item followed on September 8, 2026: a plush of the Brave Baby Dragon, the Deluxe Pack Familiar, offered through a limited-time crowdfunding campaign on a third-party merchandise platform. The plush is produced only if the minimum pre-order goal is reached, payment is taken only after the campaign closes successfully, and no orders are possible once the window ends. It is the first merchandise offered for sale since Hound13 said on August 10 that it had no merchandise sales plans yet, mentioning only a set of character keycaps it was considering giving away by lottery.

How the Cosmetics Sold

Hound13 shared figures during the August 10 broadcast. The three Summer Sea Set swimsuits sold more than 100,000 units between them, which the studio said vastly exceeded expectations, and it apologised again for the delayed release of one of the three. Outside the swimsuits, the best-selling costume is Black-Dyed Vestment, worn by Theresia.

More costumes are planned on a rolling basis, chosen by internal priority and how much a given Hero appears in the game, and weapon skins are being expanded alongside them. Colour-palette customisation for existing costumes is being considered, as is a broader appearance-change system, though Hound13 described the costume weapon skins as its current answer to that request. Ysera is unlikely to get a costume in the near term: as one of the six story Heroes, a skin would mean redoing combat sound and voice work, which the studio called difficult rather than impossible.

Discounts follow the storefront's standard schedule, bundle savings already apply through the complete-the-set mechanism, and free giveaways of the Abyssal Direwolf kind are being considered for costumes too. Hound13 restated that there are no plans for microtransactions beyond cosmetics, no costume subscription, and no pay-what-you-want tipping.

What Is Not Sold

There is no gacha, no monthly subscription, and no battle pass. Outside of the costume and Familiar catalogue and the Deluxe Pack, Hound13 has said there are no separate in-game microtransactions. The position on story content changed after launch. On August 10, 2026 Hound13 said major story content is planned as free updates rather than paid downloadable content, and that a season pass is not planned for a package game. Whether the floating-island region itself is free or paid remains undecided. See Post-Launch Roadmap.