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Emberward

Emberward

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

Released Jun 25, 2024 Developer Refic Games Platforms Windows Early AccessTower DefenseStrategyRogue-liteBase-Building
View on Steam ↗ $19.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

97.2%positive2,685 reviews
Recommended · 31 found this helpful

“Only tower defense game I've come across that lets me relive the joy of building elaborate mazes in Warcraft 3 custom map TDs in my teen years. Just a genuine delight of a game, and the recently added controller support makes playing on my ROG Ally a much better experience than…”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
Recommended · 13 found this helpful

“This is the Hollow Knight of tower defense games. That is to say, there's nothing really original about it beyond the primary gimmick, but it's done very, very well. The mechanic of using blocks to build your maze isn't too complicated but mixes things up just enough. There's…”

— a player, Steam review · 87 hrs played
Recommended · 7 found this helpful

“My favorite tower defense game so far, i had to stop playing because I see my dreams in puzzles now. If it keep updating ill probably be playing this game for a long time.”

— a player, Steam review · 92 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:25 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

176playing at last check
18224-hour peak
1,348all-time peak
0 500 1k 2025 2026 477 avg · Aug 2024

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

85achievements
1.8%median completion
0.2%rarest: World Wonder
39.3% of players 37.1% of players 34.9% of players 33.8% of players 32.2% of players 31.2% of players 30.0% of players 29.6% of players 28.3% of players 27.6% of players 27.1% of players 25.1% of players 24.3% of players 23.7% of players 23.7% of players 21.8% of players 19.5% of players 16.9% of players 16.0% of players 16.0% of players 15.0% of players 13.9% of players 13.5% of players 13.1% of players 11.9% of players 9.5% of players 9.3% of players 9.1% of players 8.9% of players 7.8% of players 7.7% of players 7.0% of players 6.4% of players 6.1% of players 5.4% of players 5.2% of players 4.7% of players 3.2% of players 3.2% of players 2.7% of players 2.2% of players 2.1% of players 1.8% of players 1.5% of players 1.4% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.8% of players 0.8% of players 39.3% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
39.3%Adventure Begins — Completed the training stage!
37.1%First Step — Learn your first talent.
34.9%Tower Apprentice — Build 10 different types of towers.
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%World Wonder — Build a maze that makes monsters walk over 1,000 tiles before reaching the Fire Source.
0.3%Naturally Talented — Clear the Sealed Citadel on Heroic difficulty without using any talents.
0.3%Sealed Citadel Conqueror — Without using an event character, clear Sealed Citadel on Heroic difficulty with Infernal Shard Level 24.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$19.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$11.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US19.99 USD
EU19.99 EUR
UK16.99 GBP
Australia29.50 AUD
Canada24.99 CAD
Japan2,300 JPY
Brazil49.99 BRL
China68.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$9.8 China Japan Canada US Australia UK EU≈$23

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jul 09, 2026
Pricing Changes!

Hi everyone!Although we just talked about what's coming in 1.0 recently, it didn't really hit me until I started writing this announcement. Emberward's Early Access is really almost over! I've been tr

Jun 14, 2026
Dev Chat: What's Coming In 1.0?

It's been almost 2 months since the last update!Recently I've been seeing more and more people ask when the next update is coming. (Someone even emailed me asking if I was sick) So I guess it's time t

Apr 16, 2026
Game Update! (v0.4.12)

New update!Another month just flew by!In this patch, there are some big changes to Endless Mode. Previously, Endless Mode had random anomaly effects to ramp up the difficulty, so you had to adjust you

Mar 09, 2026
Game Update! (v0.4.11)

New Update!Not sure if you noticed, but this week is Steam's Tower Defense Fest! The event is meant to help people discover more tower defense games, but it got me thinking... if it's a tower defense

Feb 12, 2026
Game Update! (v0.4.10)

New Update!Finally!! The feature that's been stressing me out the most is done!This update…I'd say about 90% of the time went into controller support. Since Emberward's demo launch, a lot of players h

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresIndie, Strategy, Early Access
Player tagsEarly Access · Tower Defense · Strategy · Rogue-lite · Base-Building · Deckbuilding · Rogue-like · RTS · Singleplayer · Tactical · 3D · Indie (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese
ControllerFull support
Achievements85
Estimated owners100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://www.reficgames.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7/10/11 Processor: 4GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 2GB GPU Memory, capable of OpenGL 3.0+ support Storage: 2 GB available space