Demon's Souls Recomp v2026.11.04

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

for Windows

No game files are included, and there is no ready-to-play download. The ZIP holds the tools, patches, build scripts and the launcher. SETUP.bat reads your own disc image and builds the game on your PC.

New in this release

Pointing in menus. In a menu the Windows arrow appears: moving it over an item selects it (with the game’s own cursor sound and help text), a left click on an item confirms it (on another item it selects it first; on empty space it does nothing), right click goes back, the wheel scrolls. Keys and the controller take over as soon as you use them. Works in the title, profile select, Start menu, inventory, equipment, item commands, shops, talk choices, level-up, the archstone list, the System menu and yes / no boxes (Options rows still use keys / wheel). set DES_POINT=0 turns pointing off.
Keyboard / mouse button icons. While you play with keyboard and mouse, the button icons in key guides, prompts, the HUD and the Start menu show keys and mouse buttons instead of PS3 buttons, and the title says “PRESS ENTER BUTTON”; touch the controller and they switch back. The icons are drawn on your PC from your own copy of the game (the letters are the game’s own font). set LD_TEX_KBM=0 keeps the PS3 icons.
Mouse in menus: left click confirms, right click goes back, the wheel moves the cursor, side buttons / PageUp / PageDown switch tabs.
Tower of Latria runs faster on CPUs like the Ryzen 7 5800X (4-2 start 49.6 -> 55 fps).

Install

Download DemonsSoulsRecomp-v2026.11.04.zip below and unpack it somewhere with ~14 GB free, in a short, plain path such as C:\Games\DemonsSouls.
Start DemonsSoulsLauncher.exe and press Play: the first time it offers to run SETUP.bat, answer Yes. Give it your disc image (.iso, Redump .zip, or a dumped folder). If the image needs its disc key, SETUP opens Redump’s page for this disc for you: copy the “Disc Key” line and paste it with Ctrl+V. Pressing Enter takes the suggested answer for everything else. SETUP downloads what your PC lacks (Python, Git, RPCS3, a compiler, the Visual C++ runtime) by itself.
When it says All done, press Play.

Full guide and requirements: README. Linux / Steam Deck: docs/LINUX.md.

Update from an older copy

From v2026.11.03.7 on, Check for updates in the launcher does everything (download, rebuild, reopen; your game files, saves and settings stay). The first build after this update also draws the keyboard / mouse icons (it downloads the small Pillow image library once for that). Copies from before v2026.11.03.7, this one time: download the new ZIP, copy everything inside its DemonsSoulsRecomp-v2026.11.04 folder over your old folder (replace files; your game, port and deps folders and your saves are not in the ZIP and stay), then press Play: it rebuilds what changed first.

Known issues

No online play yet; multiplayer is planned once the game is optimised.
Above 60 fps: audio can drift out of sync and the run speed can be off.
Mostly smooth on high-end PCs; lower-end CPUs (4-6 cores) can still dip in heavy areas. Work on that is ongoing.
At 2x internal resolution a loading screen can briefly flicker in the top-left corner (fix in progress).
Windows N editions without the Media Feature Pack: the game does not start yet (fix in progress).
Inside Windows Sandbox or a VM, RPCS3 can crash while decrypting; decrypt on another PC (see the README).
Steam Deck not confirmed yet.

Download it from Emulation King

Demon's Souls Recomp builds on Emulation King

Demon's Souls Recomp v2026.11.04

New in this release

Install

Update from an older copy

Known issues