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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“excelente”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“abandonware”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement 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.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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
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
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
Release build update #2
A few scenes were broken via integration, this build fixes them.
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
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | 3D · Medieval · Strategy · Open World · RPG · Action RPG · Fantasy · Action · War · Base-Building · City Builder · Magic (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Italian, French * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 36 |
| Official site | https://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