
Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Recruit and command workers to gather resources, build your camp and set up your defenses during the day. When night falls, fend off waves of deadly creatures with powerful, upgradable weapons.
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Darkness is relentless. The Fire is your only hope. Protect it… or be consumed.
You are a Guardian, a lone wanderer carrying the last embers of a dying world. With only your wits, your weapons, and your loyal hound by your side, you must journey through the darkness, reigniting lost flames and pushing back the horrors that lurk within.
Your camp is your last line of defense. Craft ammunition, refine resources, and expand your camp to strengthen your defenses. Manage your workers by assigning them to hunt, scavenge, or guard. Unlock merchants to buy new skills and traps, or use the watchtower for intel on the approaching waves. Prepare wisely - the night will test your every choice.
When night falls, they come. Hordes of relentless creatures, drawn to the light of your fire, rushing in from all sides. Armed with an arsenal of unique weapons, you must hold the line. Modify your guns, unlock perks, unleash devastating abilities, because if the fire dies… so do you.
Each battle is a lesson, each defeat a step forward. Return to your hub between each level where you can permanently unlock new weapons, active and passive skills, structures, and even teach abilities to your dog!
Venture into the unknown, scavenging forgotten lands for resources in a variety of environments. Every expedition demands careful preparation - weapon selection and ammunition supplies play a crucial role in determining whether you'll succeed or fail... Above all, time is your most precious resource. Make sure to return to camp before nightfall, or risk having to rebuild the ashes that are left.
The flame is more than fire, it’s hope, strength, and survival itself. Protect it with everything you have and defy the darkness that seeks to consume it.
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean
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Hours played at review time, across 48 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Reviews
The Ember Guardian 7/10 It's a fun game, similar to another game that shall not be mentioned (( 🏰 👑👑)), HOWEVER the difference comes with personal weapons, your companion, the upgrading system to your base, the moving of buildings for your base, and the story. I love the aspect of moving your own buildings, having guns was also fun mechanic. The only enemy that I can consider extremely annoying. Shield gunner, and wizard. The gunner is slightly annoying with having to shoot him in the head, and the wizard shoots just far enough that if you don't have towers ready he can take out your walls. The small creatures are extremely hard to hit, anyway to make their hitbox a little bigger? I feel like luke shooting the death star when they are running at me. The guns: a lot of weaponry can be fun but if they aren't properly made correctly it takes the fun out of them... The AA launcher and the grenade launcher should do a little more Bang than just sounding of Boom... Your revolver and sniper should do anti armor for those annoying shields. Your dragon companion should be more aggressive since he isn't digging or fetching, increase the attack rate. Speaking of companions, your dog should do a better job of alerting you to an ambush instead of letting you know while it's happening... Have them fart or something in the area ahead to let the player know "hey there's something wrong up there." Before the ambush, I thought that was one of the abilities and still, would get jumped and the dog was like 🤷 The story. It's great, however I noticed during some parts if you didn't do it correctly, it would glitch out. Talking to someone in the open world before you were directed to can kinda mess up the game, resulting in restarting the level. Overall it's a fun game, replayability is 💯% where you can play levels over and over. If there was anything I would add, a blessed cursed salesman, sells some interesting items that might make the game more fun but challenging. During one round, meaning you have to spend special rainbow gems (basically one of each to make a rainbow gem) you can buy items that affect the game: Want more diamonds and gems? 5% increased enemies and stronger from both sides. Want more orbs? Or workers? Your third night has a larger wave from one side for one night. Increased health and ammo regen? More enemies roam the lands / increased chances of ambush. You get the idea. Super fun game tho. 👍
I'm a huge fan of the Kingdom series, and this game is exactly what I've been looking for. It offers so much more depth with its technologies, different maps, weapons, and all the strategic options. I've been searching for a game like this for a long time! I only wish it were more popular so it had shown up on my homepage much sooner. Great job to the developers!
A resemblance to Kingdom's Saga, but with, I belive, way less playtesting. This led to a lot of unbalanced mechanics that can hardly be reconciled by the overarching narrative. In general, the gameplay is interesting for the first 2 hours, but later it becomes a chore to do anything since everything relies on your character while your troops are almost useless. The meta-progression is extremely long-lived but has hardly any purpose outside of the neat character and weapon upgrades.
相比两位君主,这个多了操作与更多的策略。就是关卡少了点,希望能够出更多的关卡。 无尽模式太卡了,建议好好优化一下。另外无尽模式无法保存,还莫名其妙的触发了无敌,怪物怎么都打不死我,最后只有强退,无尽模式的经验也没拿到。
fun game and love the dog
Really wanted to like this one as I loved kingdom, but it's more like an awkward shooter than anything else.
Скорее да, чем нет. Калька с Kingdom, но с пушками. Больше исследования и стрельбы и меньше экономики. Много оружия, правда половина мусор. Играл на Стимдеке, было вполне удобно, но пару раз жутко фризило и иногда персонаж тупит и не вкладывает шарики куда надо. Ближе к концу пришлось снизить сложность, неохота тут гриндить было. Да, кстати, есть метапрогрессия, прокачка персонажа, оружия и лагеря. Очень спорная, нужно в забеге собирать кристаллы разного цвета и потом вкладывать их в прокачку. Мне не зашло, мало дают кристаллов для оружия, а стрелять, напомню, надо очень много. Поэтому на средней сложности даже было тяжко. На легкой уже повеселее. И отдельный котел в аду хочу для того, кто придумывал летающих врагов, их всегда много и трудно попасть. И еще котелок для тех, кто сделал выдачу патронов и переработку шариков с временным эффектом, тебе нужно вложить ресурсы и, БЛ((((9999ТЬ подождать, пока тебе выдадут патроны. Это ЗВИЗДЕЦ! В остальном, игра норм. Врагов много, они разные, есть боссы. Но стилистика очень на любителя. Цена тоже не маленькая, советую брать по скидке.
Fun Game. I like the low resolution esthetic and the overall progression system. It does leave me wanting more from the game at times but I think its coming along very nicely with every update.
Kingdom x post-apocalypse. A legitimate successor.
Excelente juego, si te gusta Kingdom's Saga este no lo puedes perder.
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