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Emberward

Refic Games · 2024-06-25

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPGSimulationStrategyFree To PlayEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 25, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!

124
playing now
97%
positive of 3.8k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

124 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 124 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 454 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~57/week).
  • · Review velocity down 53% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 76k–172k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,812 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.24 at Steam (2025-04-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
49349320242026Week of 2024-06-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 493 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 450 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 225 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 19 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

132692026-08-11 19:00 — 89 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 96 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 102 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 102 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 84 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 111 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 98 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 117 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 101 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 100 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 75 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 89 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 91 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 79 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 103 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 102 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 94 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 125 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 130 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 98 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 96 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 108 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 69 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 88 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 90 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 74 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 100 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 132 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 124 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$11.242024-06-252026-07-152024-06-25 — best price $13.492024-07-02 — best price $14.992024-08-22 — best price $13.492024-08-27 — best price $14.992024-10-19 — best price $13.492024-10-26 — best price $14.992024-11-27 — best price $12.742024-12-04 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $11.992025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-01-24 — best price $12.742025-02-02 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $11.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-04-12 — best price $11.242025-04-19 — best price $14.992025-05-19 — best price $12.742025-05-26 — best price $14.992025-06-26 — best price $11.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-07-31 — best price $11.992025-08-07 — best price $14.992025-09-11 — best price $11.992025-09-18 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $11.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-10-18 — best price $11.992025-10-25 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $11.992026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-03-09 — best price $11.992026-03-16 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $11.992026-07-15 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

002026-08-26 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 09:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 14:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
40.2%
earned "Adventure Begins"
8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9850%100

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DRTSIndieBuildingCartoonyColorfulStrategyTacticalRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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