A dark-fantasy action RPG
THE SUN DID NOT SET. IT WAS PUT OUT.
LAUNCHES 1 November 2026
In the game
The Quenching
Sixty years ago the light went out of Vaelmoor in a single afternoon. They called it the Quenching. Nobody agrees on what did it. Everyone agrees it is still hungry.
What is left of the light, people carry. A coal in a cage. A lamp of bone. Warmth you can lose. They call the survivors Emberbound, and the ones the dark got to first the Unlit.
Nine people still live at Lasthearth, around the last fire anyone managed to keep. They take turns not sleeping.
This morning the Hearthwarden took a coal from the ring and put it in your hands, which she has never done for anyone.
You have the last good coal from the last good fire. Walk out with it.
Four ways to carry a light
Four classes, each as a hero or a heroine. Name yours and walk out.
CLOSE · HEAVY · UNBOTHERED
A greatsword, and fury.
Wardens who walked into the Ashwood fire on purpose to see if it would take them. It did not. Something of it stayed under the skin.
HOW SHE FIGHTSWalks in. Hits the biggest thing. Gets angrier the longer it goes on.
RANGED · FRAGILE · LOUD
Lightning, frost and falling fire.
With no sun to draw on, the Weavers went up instead and took the weather. It is a poor substitute and it is entirely enough.
HOW SHE FIGHTSKills at distance, folds if cornered, and owns the room when it works.
FAST · PRECISE · SPITEFUL
Twin daggers and poison.
The only people who stopped fighting the dark and studied it instead. They move the way it moves. It has not forgiven them for it.
HOW SHE FIGHTSIn, four hits, out, and the bill arrives a second later.
SLOW · FRAIL · NEVER ALONE
The dead, raised and walking in front of you.
The Hearth keeps the living warm. Nobody asked it about the dead, so the Gravecallers did. What answers is cold, clumsy and entirely obedient.
HOW SHE FIGHTSWeak on its own. Every body on the floor is another pair of hands, and the floor fills up.
THEN CHOOSE AN ORDEAL. It lasts the life of the character.
Five acts · five guardians
The floors are laid out fresh each time you go in, and every act ends with its guardian. A guardian is warded until you break what feeds it.
ACT ONE
the road beneath the sand
Ash and sand swallowed the old caravan road. Sandstone walls still mark its courtyards, and kiln chimneys rise from dunes that never cool.
GUARDIANTHE CHARRED SHEPHERDhe still counts them
ACT TWO
a forest that stopped burning
Eleven years of fire and every trunk still standing, black to the heartwood. The road through it is the only road there was. The hamlets along it were not evacuated; they were simply left.
GUARDIANTHE IRONROOT WARDENkeeper of the burnt trail
ACT THREE
where the names were hidden
The Keepers wrote down the true name of every living thing and sank the library so the dark could not read it. The dark learned to swim.
GUARDIANNAMELESSthe eleventh keeper
ACT FOUR
a city on a bridge over a hot chasm
Eight thousand people lived on this bridge because the chasm below it still glowed. They were warm right up until the end.
GUARDIANGRAVELOWthe bridge-eater
ACT FIVE
the furnace beneath the world
The road breaks into black islands over a molten sea. A temple stands across the fractures, built from the sky that fell.
GUARDIANTHE QUENCHERvessel of the long dark
What the road holds
Narrated films open every act, and every guardian falls on film. The last is cut for your own hero.
The five: the Charred Shepherd, he still counts them; the Ironroot Warden, keeper of the burnt trail; Nameless, the eleventh keeper; Gravelow, the bridge-eater; and the Quencher, vessel of the long dark.
Watch the prologue
Five rarities, six item sets, relics taken from guardians, and gems for the sockets. Rare and better weapons, helms, gloves and boots show on your hero, and legendary and set pieces glow.
The forge brings an old favourite up to your level.
COMPANIONSGarrick Voss the sellsword, Soot the cinder hound, Mother Hesk the hedge-witch and Kestrel the scout. One walks beside you at a time, and they get back up when they fall.
BOUNTIESA named elite, a guarded strongbox or a captive, somewhere off the main road. Most companions are found at the end of one. Rescue the captives and they come to live by the fire.
PUZZLESBraziers lit in the right order, weighing stones, weeping statues. The answer is never written beside the puzzle: find the clues hidden around the room and work it out.
Maerin Coalwrightcoalwright
Old Vesskeeper of names
Tilda Ashapothecary
The Hearthwardentends the fire
LASTHEARTH AND THE CARAVANA ring of stones around a coal that has not gone out in sixty years. Nine people still live here. They take turns not sleeping. As the road opens they travel with you, to a new fire in every act: Maerin forges and cuts gems, Tilda brews your flasks, Old Vess keeps the names, and the Hearthwarden minds a chest your heroes share.
Three branches of talents for every class. At level 8 you swear an Oath that opens your branch's deepest skills, and you can save a whole build to swap back to later.
After the Quencher: ten ranks of expeditions down the roads you have already walked.
A floating or fixed stick, hold to attack, left-handed controls, and a HUD you can drag and resize. Colour-blind modes, text size, reduced flashing and reduced motion.
Your saves stay on your device. The Android app plays offline; the story films stream when you are connected.
The films
EMBERSWORN tells its story in painted, narrated films: one to open the road, one for every act, one for every guardian's fall, and a last one cut for your own hero.
This is the first of them.
With sound. The preview is muted.
From the game
Captured from the game itself, at phone and tablet sizes.
The last good coal
EMBERSWORN launches on 1 November 2026. Leave your email and we will write when the fire is lit.
Testing on Android. Before launch, EMBERSWORN is being tested on Google Play by invitation. To be invited, write to hello@embersworn.com with the Google account your phone uses. Already invited? Join the Android test.
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EMBERSWORN is made by Hire The Robots. Follow the work on YouTube.