Memoirium is a PSX soulslike set in twisted dreamscapes — and you can decorate your bedroom between deaths

Memoirium launches this Thursday, and a demo is already live on Steam. It's a PSX-styled action-RPG soulslike built around battling through surreal, fragmented dreamscapes — and whoever's subconscious you're fighting through clearly has some unresolved issues.

The demo opens in a void-ravaged cemetery before routing you through a crumbling statue and into a cultish school. Enemies include chair-wielding thugs and horn-faced monsters, and the levels lean hard into broken dream logic — expect geometry that collapses underfoot and ledges shaped like giant swords ready to send you plummeting. In place of the usual bonfire, Memoirium offers a bedroom as its rest spot: a space you can actually furnish and decorate with resources gathered on your runs, giving the downtime between deaths a personal, low-key charm that contrasts sharply with the chaos outside.

Memoirium sits in a crowded but enthusiastic niche — PSX-aesthetic soulslikes have carved out a dedicated audience over the past few years, with games like Lunacid and Dread Templar proving there's real appetite for that chunky low-poly look paired with punishing combat. The dream-world framing gives the developers room to throw almost anything at the player without it feeling arbitrary, which the demo uses freely.

The full game drops Thursday. The demo is on Steam now if you want to test your tolerance for sword-shaped ledges before committing.