Co-op roguelite Shape of Dreams is out now on PS5

The road to today

One year after launch, Lizard Smoothie's action roguelite Shape of Dreams is out today on PlayStation 5 — and it's not arriving as a bare port. The PS5 debut ships together with The Starless Path, the game's 1st Anniversary Update and the largest the studio has ever produced. Everything the team built over the past year alongside more than 1.5 million players on Steam is baked into the PS5 version from day one, so new players get the fully evolved game, not the launch-era one.

Cross-play is live right out of the gate: PS5 lobbies are unified with PC and other consoles, so you can party up immediately.

The core loop: descend into the Rapids

You pick one of nine Travelers, each radically different, and dive into the Rapids — a dream world that reshapes itself on every entry. Combat is fast, flashy and aggressive, but the real game happens in the build system:

• Memories are the core abilities you equip; Essences slot into them and rewrite how they work. Add an Essence that chains a single-target attack to nearby enemies, or one that cuts cooldown on every hit, and one ability can clear an entire room. With more than 200 Memories and Essences available, no two runs play the same.
• Each Traveler also starts with two defining choices made before the run begins: a Traveler Memory (an active skill) and an Identity Memory (a passive), with two options in each slot. You're not just stacking abilities — you're adjusting the starting point itself.

The designers' point: a run isn't about finding the right answer, it's about deciding what to make of what you find.

Long-term progression and co-op

Each Traveler has a Constellation to fill in, and progress persists between runs — repeated descents build toward heights a single dive can't reach. The game is fully playable solo, or as four-player online co-op, where builds interlock: one player freezes enemies while another pumps damage into frozen targets, or someone gathers enemies into one point for a party-wide sweep. No fixed roles are assigned; four independent builds collide until they find a rhythm.

What The Starless Path adds

• New Traveler Cetus — a ranged frost tank who locks down the battlefield with ice while shielding himself and nearby allies. Built for players who want to be the reason their party survives a bad map.
• The Way of Stars — a constellation-like system weaving each Traveler's story together. Reaching the depths of the Rapids unlocks hidden episodes and illustrations.
• A new ending and the game's toughest final boss ( spoiler reminder: the update adds a genuine narrative endpoint, so proceed carefully if you want to go in blind).
• Fallen Stars and Faded Memories — Identity Memories can now be swapped for one of 6 Universal Identity Memories, opening a new progression path beyond your Traveler's defaults.
• Harder world bosses — existing bosses gain threatening secondary attack patterns and deadlier behavior at higher difficulties.

Where things stand

The Steam community has had a year to discover the synergies; PlayStation players get to start from the most complete version of the game. As the studio put it when asking players a year ago: would you risk everything to shape a dream? That question now goes to PS5 owners today.