A cute tower protection recreation launched final week that has you utilize tetromino blocks so as to DIY a tower protection maze. Emberward, the debut title from indie studio Refic Video games, is a inventive little recreation that makes you utilize your head to puzzle out preferrred layouts to your maze earlier than utilizing a set of towers you have chosen your self to defend the bonfire at its heart. There is a demo out now that permits you to play via the primary space with a barely restricted set of talents.
It is a fairly neat setup. Every run via you are given a beginning set of towers and a deck of blocks, however from there you get new towers and blocks to your deck from successful a couple of waves of attackers per degree. You additionally get expertise to construct out your chosen character’s expertise tree, and you discover relics alongside the best way that give little tweaks to your powers. It is a fairly commonplace setup, however the best way you construct up offers you satisfying customization with out being overwhelming or requiring you to get over-involved in meta technique.
It is a fairly neat idea. The mix of customizing your individual suite of towers with selecting block placement means you will have a great technique arrange upfront—like plenty of switchbacks or lengthy straightaways—that you simply then should adapt to the tactical scenario while you really see the structure of the extent you are preventing on.
Issues get extra sophisticated as you discover bigger towers that require more room to position, and as you empower your block partitions with runes that enhance their effectiveness. I used to be even shocked to seek out “drone” towers that ship out attackers in opposition to enemies, reasonably than lie in anticipate them. After a pair runs of the demo this one went on my checklist of video games to look at sooner or later simply because the house for neat recreation designs is so broad—I am to see what new characters and towers will convey.
You’ll find Emberward on Steam for $15, with a ten% off launch sale for the subsequent couple of days.
The early entry launch of Emberward has two areas with their very own set of enemies, a forest and a desert. There are 25 towers and 42 relics, together with tower upgrades and a expertise tree for every of the three playable characters. The roadmap units out an replace including a Frozen Ruins area with new towers, relics, and characters, in addition to a closing area with larger difficulties and but extra towers/relics/characters. Past these two updates Refic hopes so as to add customized recreation modes, an in-game compendium, controller help, additional maps and variant boss battles, and Steam achievements sooner or later.
