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Ember is a homage to classic role-playing games (RPG) that features a deep branching story, endless exploration across dynamic and living environments, a robust skill system, and an intricate crafting system.
Ember is a rpg, adventure and indie game
developed by N-Fusion Interactive
and published by 505 Games.
Released on September 09th 2016 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 981 reviews of which 735 were positive and 246 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2000 series or NVIDIA 8000 series
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: No accelerated sound hardware required
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A good little B-tier RPG game for under $10. Plot has fairly good tongue in cheek humor as it offers the usual tropes but makes pithy comments about them at the same time. Linear main path with a few optional side quests. Almost no character customization/builds or companion choices (pick 2 of the 3 offered). Minimal voice acting. Extensive crafting system for armor, weapons, and aids that is also almost entirely unnecessary (learn a few foods and 3 potions (health, energy, and ironskin for the hard fights and that's all you really need). Not particularly difficult on normal mode (didn't try hard mode). But for all of that, an enjoyable little romp for 35 hours following the main plot and seeing what comes next, so for me worth the sale price for a single run through (Not much replay value).
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Really fun game. If you're looking for a game like Dragon age origin, this is a good fit.
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YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I finally finished it!!! I was looking for an RPG that doesn't have 3 million walls of texts and each skill requires an essay of 30+ pages to read... And then you have fifteen hundred other skills all over the place... That makes me only understand one and there are so many stats... That you start to wonder how you will ever make it through life again...? Well in this game...! There are simple rules. Simple tactics. There are ONLY 3 equippable skills and 2 passive skills. The game teaches you the Basics, drops you off and then you go explore and do what needs to be done. I liked almost everything. The opening CG, the ending CG, the quests, the decisions, the skills, the... You get it. All was fun!!! I did however think my character was a bit too dumb lol. I mean... They told him stuff and he forgot it immediately. I have to forgive him I suppose... He is a corpse n all. The companions... Well, those surely blindly followed me everywhere and agreed on everything I did lol. Granted I am a nice companion, but... They were okay with me murdering a guy in the middle of the night because he was a baddie and wouldn't give me the ITEM I needed?! Eh well. I found it hilarious. Oh yeah! The Books! I liked the stories in them. Some I couldn't find a continuation to and then realized... Maybe I shouldn't... *-* Ah yeah and running everywhere... 's okay up until the end of the game, especially when you have everything you wanted... You wish you could ride the horse... I don't know if you could... I couldn't find the stables anymore and the polar bears tried to kill me, instead of letting me ride them. D: Last thing... You gotta be really close to an item to actually have it pop up as interactable. Our MC doesn't have really good Depth Perception. Either way, this was worth it. I may not have been overly attached to anything or emotional about it... Up until the end. Good stuff. YEAH!!!
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6/10. It's good! Definitely above average. The plot starts off basic, you begin as a newly resurrected Lightbringer that gets charged with saving the world. The lore behind the world is quite extensive and in-depth. There's a lot of optional books to read and it's clear there was a lot of thought put into the lorecrafting and world building. UI is a little bit amateurish. Could have picked a different default font other than Arial...it feels very mobile gamey. The music is very good. Some of it feels nostalgic -- reminds me of WoW night elf areas. Voice acting is hit or miss. Not all lines are voiced. Combat can be a bit boring at times but it's serviceable. There are no spells that you actually learn -- it's all connected to whatever gear you're wearing at the time. There are some side quests, but nothing that actually explores side characters or your companions. It's a very plot-focused game with a couple twists but no real character development. It's an entertaining game though.
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I got this game several years ago but never got to play it until now. It clearly shows it's age. The beginning was pretty rough, moving around the map with point and click felt really clunky and in chokepoints it was sometimes hard to navigate if one of your partymembers blocked the others. Overall it was hard getting used to especially since holding the mouse down lets you move the camera. In that regard, fighting felt really clunky aswell as you only have limited options at your disposal while your party fights enemies on their own. You can pause the game at any point to individually move your partymembers out of harms way. You have 3 active skills at your disposal that are tied to the Weapon and Armor you use. Skills cost mana, but since they have no cooldown, you are encouranged to pause the game mid fight over and over in order to activate skills on all 3 characters. This makes fighting optimally more tactical but not exciting at all. But if you pull through and endure the beginning, you'll rapidly notice that underneath all these rough systems, there's a lot of love poured into the game despite the clearly showing lack of budget. The Story is rather generic (hero's quest) but they added lots of side dialogue and lore-books if you want to know more about the world. The pacing is really good between advancing main story and doing side quests on the way. The Areas look nice and the map artwork is beautiful. Along the way you'll find lots of food, herbs and ore to mine that are used for crafting. They put a lot of work into the different types: cooking, woodworking, tailoring, alchemy and blacksmithing. You can buy recipies from vendors or obtain them by looting chests. While there's really a LOT of different ingredients, the crafting menu was terribly inconvenient. So much that besides some basic cooking i didnt further bother diving into it and used the items i found along the way or bought from vendors. Really missed potential Inventory management is clean with each item using up one space in your 99 slot bag. Later in the game you'll find additional 16 slot bags for more inventory space but unfortunately item stacks dont merge (so if you put 1 iron ore in one of you small bags to make room in the big bag, mining another iron ore will still use up space in the big bag as you have 2 stacks of 1 ore each until you manually drag it). Each item you find has a description that tells you exactly what it is used for so you can easily distinguish items used in crafting from items beeing solely useful to make gold selling to vendors. Character progression is basic. You have 3 types: Melee in Heavy Armor using Strenght as main Attribute, Ranged in leather armor using Dexterity and Magic in light Armor using Intelligence. The 4th Attribute is Vitality for more Health. As mentioned before, skills are tied to the Weapon/Armor you use so you can test around which ones fit your playstyle most The game itself runs very well and i havent encountered a single bug in the game, so kudos to the programming team. Steam achievements are easily obtainable in one playthrough with one exception: After visiting the giants cliffs for the first time and beeing sent back to the city of light, save the game before accepting the quest, do the quest in one way until you receive the achievement, then reload the game and do it the other way for the second achievement (there are steamguides explaining this). There are 2 different endings to the story, you can either replay the final bossfight reloading the game, or watch the alternative ending sequence on youtube. Conclusion: Despite it's sometimes very rough edges, i enjoyed my playthrough in Ember. It's clear the developers put a lot of love in their game with much attention to detail. If you can look past the flaws i mentioned above, you'll have yourself a fine little 20h adventure.
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Ember is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
Ember is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.
Ember received 735 positive votes out of a total of 981 achieving a rating of 7.18.
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Ember was developed by N-Fusion Interactive and published by 505 Games.
Ember is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Ember is not playable on MacOS.
Ember is not playable on Linux.
Ember is a single-player game.
Ember does not currently offer any DLC.
Ember does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Ember does not support Steam Remote Play.
Ember is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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