Ember

Ember (2016)

N-Fusion Interactive · September 9, 2016 · RPG, Adventure, Fantasy, Indie, Action RPG

Buy the Ember key for Steam from Eneba at $1.14 — the cheapest of 23 stores we compare.

PC
Mostly Positive75% · 99570Metacritic
Best price 59 Good deal
$1.14-86%
lowest tracked $0.74
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WinGameStore
WinGameStore
Standard Edition · Steam
-21%
$7.89
$9.99
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GameBillet
GameBillet
Standard Edition · Steam
-18%
$8.24
$9.99
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GamersGate
GamersGate
Standard Edition · Steam
-10%
$8.99
$9.99
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PlanetPlay
PlanetPlay
Standard Edition · Steam
-10%
$8.99
$9.99
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Gamesplanet
Standard Edition · Steam
-10%
$8.99
$9.99
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Fanatical
Standard Edition · Steam
-7%
$9.29
$9.99
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Zapagames
Zapagames
Standard Edition · Steam
-7%
$9.34
$9.99
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GreenManGaming
Standard Edition · Steam
$9.99
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Steam
Steam
Standard Edition · Steam
$9.99
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AllYouPlay
AllYouPlay
Standard Edition · Ubisoft Connect
$9.99
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Newegg
Newegg
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$9.99
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Humble Store
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Standard Edition · Steam
$9.99
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$9.99
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Nuuvem
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Standard Edition · Steam
$9.99
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Standard Edition · Steam
$9.99
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Cheapest Ember keys — keyshops

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Driffle INC
Standard Edition · Steam
$1.35
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Eneba
Standard Edition · Steam
$1.14
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Kinguin
Standard Edition · Steam
$1.39
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CJS CD Keys
CJS CD Keys
Standard Edition · Steam
$2.17
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Loaded
Standard Edition · Steam
-71%
$2.69
$9.39
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Playsum
Playsum
Standard Edition · Steam
-10%
$8.99
$9.99
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PlayerLand
PlayerLand
Standard Edition · Steam
-5%
$9.49
$9.99
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Ember price by region

Ember costs £0.77 in the United Kingdom, €0.88 in Europe (EUR), $1.14 in the United States, $1.14 in Georgia (USD), zł4.92 in Poland, R$7.61 in Brazil, CA$9.89 in Canada, A$11.61 in Australia and NZ$11.99 in New Zealand right now.

Cheapest Ember offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £0.77 −87% £5.73 £0.77 19
Europe (EUR) €0.88 −88% €7.14 €0.88 21
United Statesyour region $1.14 −86% $7.89 $1.14 23
Georgia (USD) $1.14 −84% $6.99 $1.14 22
Poland zł4.92 −84% zł31.48 zł4.92 18
Brazil R$7.61 −54% R$16.54 R$7.61 16
Canada CA$9.89 −21% CA$9.89 CA$13.54 19
Australia A$11.61 −21% A$11.61 A$13.97 17
New Zealand NZ$11.99 −21% NZ$11.99 NZ$17.15 16

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Ember

✦ AI summary

Ember is a classic-style RPG where you play as a resurrected Lightbringer protecting magical Embers across vast, handcrafted worlds filled with 70+ quests and hundreds of NPCs with their own stories. With over 30 hours of adventure, real-time tactical combat, 65+ skills, deep crafting, and meaningful choices that shape your destiny, it's a passion project that delivers old-school role-playing on an epic scale.

About Ember


“Back in the earliest days, there was no sun and the world was dark. The heavens opened up and stars fell like beacons into the pitch black world, and they were known as “Embers”. Powerful and wise druids of a primordial race, “the Lightbringers," roamed the land searching for this luminous matter. They performed a ritual of awakening to call the “Embers” out of their deep sleep. Suddenly the world became bright, and the veil of darkness was lifted. The Embers were the embodiment of magical flame, light, and life, but as word spread about the sheer power of the Embers, they came to be hunted and captured…and so the War for Ember began…”

Gameplay overview


A passion project 10 years in the making, Ember is a homage to classic role-playing games (RPG). Enter the world of Ember as a resurrected “Lightbringer” summoned to protect the dying Embers as the world is on the brink of collapse. Beginning in the Deep Barrows, traverse vast environments divided between above ground and underground realms – ranging from lush forests to dry deserts and dark abysses – to reach the City of Light. See how the story unfolds through encounters with strangers by making pivotal decisions about your own destiny.

Key features


  • Classic-style RPG with 30+ hours of epic adventure
  • Epic storytelling filled with fascinating characters, lore, adventure, and humor
  • Over 70 quests with diverse gameplay enabling players to choose their path
  • Engaging party-based real-time combat system with tactical pause
  • Over 65 combat skills for the player to use in customized battle party strategy
  • Encounter hundreds of NPCs with their own tales to tell
  • In-depth crafting system, from baking bread to forging magic weapons
  • A seamless world with over 20 handcrafted environments and dark dungeons that are fully interactive and feature movable objects, weather changes and day / night cycles
  • Adventure with different companions with their own backstory quests

Ember — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Ember receives sharply divided opinions from players. Supporters praise it as a fun and addictive CRPG with simple, engaging gameplay and mouse controls, while detractors criticize nearly every aspect including poor UI, clunky combat pathfinding, stuttering performance, overwhelming inventory management due to mandatory healing items, and a lifeless world that fails to match classic CRPGs. Most critical players suggest avoiding it entirely, though the low price point is noted as the game's main positive attribute.

Not recommended Sep 5, 2026
A CRPG with good potential, but it falls short on just about every angle except pricing. The price is good. The game is bad. Game is stuttery as all heck if you play windowed fullscreen. Inventory management is a nightmare. Your party resources don't regen naturally over time so you're forced to carry endless healing items around you. Alone, the diversity of these can and will consume over 50% of your inventory capacity. You can't even really sort by availability because while some shop keeps never refresh their stock, some have infinite stock (including infinite food). The world feels kinda empty and dead. The controls are awful. Pathfinding is clunky and janky and makes getting into position in combat a pain; ESPECIALLY if you pick a ranged weapon. Your party's pathfinding in combat is effectively forever nerfed if you do not main melee. Party AI also doesn't exist. They just prioritize your target and happily stand in AoEs and DoTs that will kill them very quickly. The game forces you to sleep a lot to regen resources, but sleeping also respawns enemies. This leads to the player developing an aversion to combat; based on my own experience and reading other reviews. This game has…
6 found this helpful
Not recommended May 30, 2026
possibly one of the worst crpgs of all time, it screams "we make games cuz its a job" not "we play games", they learned nothing from the greats and youll be wishing for the glory days before you leave the first area....trash UI, looting, items, abilities, combat, tone, style etc etc, i hated it all, but if youre an incel simp cuck...it might be just your thing,
1 found this helpful
Recommended May 25, 2026
Different and fun. Can play with mouse.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 26, 2026
Pretty good game! worth a playthrough
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 25, 2026
What great CRPG fun, keep it simple, very addictive and difficult enough to keep the player interested.
Recommended Apr 21, 2026
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 If this game were a person they would be a Dungeon-Master with a doctorate in the same from Harvard or better yet Oxford or a Wordsmith at the Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences with another doctorate in Female Pleasure studies from Cambridge or Harvard. A must buy if not for you then for the pizza you never bought your dog or cat or for the seed you never fed those always starving wild birds. WORDLOW OLIVER CONTACT ( wordlow@protonmail.com ) STEAM FRIEND CODE 🖥️ 844304038 🕹️ "Listen with the intent to listen--not reply." 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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