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Emberwake

Night has fallen on the Ashen Flat — gather embers, forge an army, and burst the enemy Core before dawn.

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No install. No account. Works on phone and desktop.

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Features

  • Ember economy — gatherers haul glowing embers to your Lantern Core; every ember fuels your war effort and your score.
  • Forge an army — train Forgers and Rippers in a live queue, select units, and order attacks with a click or a tap.
  • Living enemy AI — enemy warbands leave their Core in waves that grow fiercer as the night wears on.
  • Dawn deadline — one night, five minutes: destroy the enemy Core before first light, or watch your own go dark.
  • Fully procedural — every model, colour, particle and sound is generated in code, seeded and reproducible.
  • Runs anywhere — pure WebGL in any modern browser, keyboard and mouse on desktop, touch d-pad and taps on phones.

How to play

Goal: destroy the enemy Core before dawn. You lose if your Core falls or dawn arrives with the enemy intact.

  • WASD / arrows — pan the camera (or drag; on phones use the d-pad buttons).
  • Mouse wheel / pinch — zoom in and out (+/- buttons work too).
  • Click / tap a unit — select it; shift-click adds more units.
  • Click / tap ground — ordered units move there. Tap an enemy unit or the enemy Core to attack it. Tap an ember vein to send gatherers.
  • Buttons — train Gatherer (20) and Forger (40), select your whole army, pause (P).

Gatherers feed the Core on their own. Spend embers on units, keep them alive, and push on the Core.

The night is short.

Five minutes of dawn-breaking strategy. One click to start.

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