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Emberward

Roguelite tower defense with card-drawn blocks for building mazes

Refic Games · Released Sep 17, 2026

IndieStrategyFree To Play

Reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
96% of 4,518
Recent reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
96% of 151 in 30 days
Players
270
daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Last update on Steam
4 weeks ago
Oct 8, 2026
Minimum PC
2GB GPU Memory
4 GB RAM · 3 GB disk
Full requirements

What is Emberward?

Emberward is a single-player roguelite tower defense game where you place wall blocks drawn from a deck to route monsters, then position towers around the resulting maze. Runs span changing maps and tower selections, with new block cards, towers, runes, relics, and talents shaping each defense.

For you if...

  • +you like building your own mazes in tower defense
  • +you enjoy randomized runs and deckbuilding decisions
  • +you want several single-player challenge formats

Not for you if...

  • −you prefer fixed maps over rebuilding defenses each run
  • −you dislike randomness affecting towers, cards, and relics
  • −you expect a smooth, predictable difficulty curve

What players say

96% of 4,518 reviews are positive · 96% of 151 in the last 30 days

Players most often praise the block-based maze building, range of towers and relics, and variety of possible combinations. Common complaints are that runs can become repetitive, difficulty can jump abruptly, and later waves sometimes reduce careful planning to extending the maze and adding more towers.

Players over time

▼ -66% vs a month ago

Players online on Steam, one sample a day.

Highest since Sep 2026: 1,461 players on Sep 27, 2026.

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Nov 7, 2026270
Nov 6, 2026176
Nov 5, 2026239
Nov 4, 2026258
Nov 3, 2026257
Nov 2, 2026235
Nov 1, 2026326
Oct 31, 2026328
Oct 30, 2026221
Oct 29, 2026231
Oct 28, 2026239
Oct 26, 2026287
Oct 25, 2026391
Oct 24, 2026368
Oct 23, 2026277
Oct 22, 2026311
Oct 21, 2026326
Oct 20, 2026339
Oct 18, 2026529
Oct 17, 2026452
Oct 16, 2026373
Oct 15, 2026393
Oct 14, 2026370
Oct 13, 2026450
Oct 11, 2026633
Oct 10, 2026532
Oct 9, 2026500
Oct 8, 2026457
Oct 7, 2026474
Oct 6, 2026547
Oct 4, 2026809
Oct 3, 2026790
Oct 2, 2026764
Oct 1, 2026872
Sep 30, 2026911
Sep 29, 20261,057
Sep 27, 20261,461
Sep 26, 20261,354
Sep 25, 20261,221
Sep 24, 20261,238
Sep 23, 20261,440
Sep 23, 20261,342
Sep 22, 20261,308
Sep 21, 20261,265

How many players finish Emberward?

6.0% of Steam players have unlocked «Void Depths Traveler», the achievement for finishing the main story.

Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.

Screenshots and trailer

Emberward screenshot 1

Emberward system requirements

Minimum: 2GB GPU Memory, 4 GB RAM, 3 GB of disk space.

As published by the developer.

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Minimum

OS
Windows 7/10/11
Processor
4GHz
Graphics
2GB GPU Memory, capable of OpenGL 3.0+ support
Memory
4 GB RAM
Storage
3 GB available space

Recommended

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Does Emberward have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Does Emberward run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

  • Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
  • Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
  • The native resolution is not the default one
  • All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
  • Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Full controller support
Platforms
Windows
Achievements
100
Steam features
Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Languages
Text only: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Spanish - Latin America.

Does Emberward use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Nov 6, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam

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