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Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this engaging roguelite tower defense game!
Emberward is a early access, tower defense and strategy game
developed and published by Refic Games.
Released on June 25th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese.
It has received 2,685 reviews of which 2,609 were positive and 76 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 11.83€ on Steam with a 20% discount.
The Steam community has classified Emberward into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7/10/11
- Processor: 4GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2GB GPU Memory, capable of OpenGL 3.0+ support
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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Saw this recently on a Mr Fruit Video. A lot of Fun, the blocks kinda turns it into a strategy type game.
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I am palying video games for more than 20 years now. This is one of the best I have ever playered. The actual game loop is a Slay the Spire inspired tower defense game. In each run, you build up a deck of towers and blocks you can use on the maps. There are many different maps, whith interesting designs and different game mechanics. What is the most fun to me, is using all the different synergies the game offers between towers, maze layouts, power ups, etc. Highly recommend.
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So.... I'm an Early Access junky. I love getting in early before games are too complex and discorded to death by the "elite" to where every fun thing is gone and the game looks like every other game out there like it. I don't write reviews until I have at least 100 hours into a game, and I have 357 in this title as of this typing exercise. This game is deceptively simple. It doesn't look like much, and it's cartoony vibe gives it an air of not so serious. When it first appeared, I thought I would never want to play it at all. After seeing a few vids of it, I started to notice it more, and then it went on sale, so I was bored one day and thought "why not". Very good decision, that was. Normally this is where I would give examples of the Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the Indifferent. But I don't need to do that here. It's all good. Seriously. Game is Dev'd gloriously. It is cared for. It is loved. The game is easy to look at and easy to play. Everything is easily accessible, easy to read, easy to use. The winning is easy too, at first. But then you find there are characters to play and flames to have that can really warp and mess with the mechanics in some very interesting and difficult ways. Difficulty is whatever you want it to be. Easy maps with hard characters or handicapped flames or any combo you want. Chill and have fun or challenge yourself, both are easily accessible. Then there's the chrono character for those that enjoy pain and getting themselves deaded repeatedly. If you have any tower defense love, play this. At the least it will be no worse than anything you have touched. At the best, you will find it just keeps nagging at you and sucking you back in. If you don't have tower defense love (...like me...), play this. This is a great introduction to the genre and just a plain bunch of fun to play. I have a few other of this type of game, and they wear on me and become chores after a time. This game does not. There's always something to mess with. It's already very good. It is going to get better as the Dev is now starting work on level 4 and all its boards, monsters and all its new mechanics. Honestly, so far this is one of the best EA's I have been a part of, and I have done many. Cheers..!
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Got this game after watching Fauna playing it. Pretty good game I must say, although there's not a lot of content yet, and some towers might do with a buff or two, maybe a few more hours and those seemingly under-powered towers may shine.
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Game is good, easily worth $15 if you've ever enjoyed any type of tower defense game. Simple, colorful aesthetic looks and works great with the concept. Great sound design gives the towers weight and feel. Okay enough of that. Criticism: 3 out of the 5 heroes aren't necessarily unplayable, there's just no reason to play them. Chunk's XL blocks are more of a hindrance than a help. The Knight character has no interesting abilities and melee towers are terrible. There's never any reason to pick the Novice character after you unlock another character. Suggestion: Chunk - Give towers he places on XL blocks some kind of bonus so you have an actual reason to want to take them/place them instead of having them crowd your hand or place them way off the map to get them out of your hand. Knight - He needs melee tower bonuses of some kind. Cost reduction and/or flat increases to melee tower stats. Melee towers are so, so bad. I've tried doing a run where I emphasize buying and placing them and it just doesn't work. Novice - Needs a starting relic or ability or something, anything, that might make you want to actually play him a second time after unlocking Merchant. Criticism: Barracks and Altars on the map kinda stink. Eliminating one block from your backpack at an Altar seems good but that also prevents you from picking up a useful block from a battle, so that kind of cancels, so going to an Altar really just prevents you from getting a tower/artifact. Barracks has the same issue, there are no rewards from Barracks that you can't get by just doing a battle instead. Suggestion: Altars should be a unique battle stage with better rewards, maybe a different type of battle, like escorting/protecting something that moves after your turn ends and walks through/destroys your walls that get in its way, where losing doesn't end the run, just negates awards. Barracks should also offer unique rewards that you cannot just get from a battle stage, maybe towers that are already upgraded or unique artifacts. Criticisms aside, again, the game is just good. Just buy it.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Emberward is currently priced at 11.83€ on Steam.
Emberward is currently available at a 20% discount. You can purchase it for 11.83€ on Steam.
Emberward received 2,609 positive votes out of a total of 2,685 achieving an impressive rating of 9.28.
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Emberward was developed and published by Refic Games.
Emberward is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Emberward is not playable on MacOS.
Emberward is not playable on Linux.
Emberward is a single-player game.
Emberward does not currently offer any DLC.
Emberward does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Emberward does not support Steam Remote Play.
Emberward 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.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Emberward.
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Developer
Refic Games
Publisher
Refic Games
Release
25 Jun 2024
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