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Empire of Ember

Empire of Ember

Become a battlemage, build a city, and command your troops in this fantasy warfare simulator. Jump into the fray and use your might, magic, and wits to fight enemies in battles of up to a hundred units and fully destructible city siege combat. The fate of an empire is in your hands.

Released Jan 20, 2022 Developer Poleaxe Games LLC Publisher Poleaxe Games LLC, Forthright Entertainment Platforms Windows 3DMedievalStrategyOpen WorldRPG
View on Steam ↗ $24.99 (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

65.3%positive150 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“excelente”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“abandonware”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

36achievements
1.3%median completion
0.4%rarest: Wizard
81.9% of players 46.2% of players 19.8% of players 15.3% of players 13.8% of players 13.4% of players 12.3% of players 9.7% of players 9.1% of players 8.0% of players 5.7% of players 5.5% of players 4.4% of players 4.1% of players 2.3% of players 2.0% of players 1.7% of players 1.4% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 0.9% of players 0.7% of players 0.6% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 81.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
81.9%Lessons learned — Retrieved Kroth's Ember without being knocked out
46.2%Slayer — Get the highest rank in a mission (by killing enemies quickly)
19.8%No Surrender — Kill 20 enemies in the first mission where you defend your city against the goblin attackers
Rarest badges of honor
0.4%Wizard — Beat the game on normal
0.4%The good of the many — Win the game, making only positive karma decisions
0.4%The good of the few — Win the game, making only negative karma decisions

Latest official news

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

Feb 13, 2022
Fix mana amulet

SniDrako : Fix mana amulet setting mana to 0 instead of removing mana burn SniDrako : Increase duration of mage light 50% SniDrako : Reduce steel upkeep of hero units

Jan 27, 2022
Fix for market gold diminishing returns

The market was previously given diminishing returns for gold. However, due to the structure of the game it wasn't possible to accurately reflect this in the gold per turn tooltip. Now the market no lo

Jan 20, 2022
Empire of Ember goes to FULL RELEASE TODAY!!!

Lightbringers! The wait is finally over!!! We're thrilled to announce that Empire of Ember has left Early Access today and is now fully released on Steam! Since the game went into Early Access on Marc

Jan 20, 2022
Release build update #2

A few scenes were broken via integration, this build fixes them.

Jan 19, 2022
Final release candidate 1/18/2022

This release contains a month of gameplay balancing and minor bug fixes. As long as no major issues are found this will be the final version for the 1.0 release. Overall player weapon and monster heal

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy
Player tags3D · Medieval · Strategy · Open World · RPG · Action RPG · Fantasy · Action · War · Base-Building · City Builder · Magic (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Italian, French *
ControllerFull support
Achievements36
Official sitehttps://www.empireofember.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 3500 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Storage: 30 GB available space