Emberglass

Welcome to the open world, mini-metroidvania of your dreams.

You wake in a circle of speaking stones, in a strange sunless land filled with ruins and monsters. You remember going to sleep, back in your world, on a hill near the cresting lights. Some called it a faerie hill, and warned of kidnapping and dancing and taken to the land of the good folk, the grey folk, the faeries.

But there are no fair folk here, it is empty and lonely and littered with hollow bones. You have only one thought: to return back home. But how? How. The experience is beautiful and immersive. Expect to get lost, and love finding the interesting places you discover.

This game has:

-Non-linear layout. Defeat any boss in any order you like. Find any item in any order you like. Solve puzzles using whatever tools you have on hand.
-No health bar. You fade away each time you get hit, until you completely disappear
-Only two items. One for each hand, each time you want a new one, you have to drop an old one. This leads to interesting strategy and puzzle solving
-You can pick up anything and use it as an item
-Speed run and game challenge tools. Press escape, turn on the speed run timer or the kill count timer. Try beating the game with 0 kills! It's hard, but not impossible. Or beat the game with only 5 kills. Or 100! 
-Multiple different ways to solve each puzzle in the game. This allows players to find their own way.
-Controller support (tested on 8bitdo controllers, Xbox, and PS3/4)
-A full Day/Night cycle
-A weather cycle including fog, rain, overcast
-About 2-4 hours of gameplay, but a speed run can be as quick as 30 minutes
-Four bosses. Three bosses hidden throughout the land and one final boss.

The Items you can find:
 Lantern. Hold down the button to create light in dark places

Bow. Fire arrows that can be stuck in walls. These arrows can be stood on

A quiver of arrows. Allows you to hold more arrows

A stray arrow to add to your quiver.

A hollow bone.  ???????

A hollow skull. ????????

A wand to summon vines. Hold down on the button to make vines grow.

Wear this ring to summon the rain

Wear this ring to summon the fog

 A potion. ?????? Drink and find out

A potion. ?????? Drink and find out

A potion. ?????? Drink and find out

A potion. ?????? Drink and find out

Magical wings. Fly and be free!

Haunted bones. Hold down on button to summon a ghost shield

The lost sword of the Hollow Prince. Rumored to be magical.

And a few items not listed here. If you see something, try to pick it up and find out!

keyboard Controls:

Switch Joycoon/8Bitdo controls:

PS3/PS4 Controls:


The game takes notes from original Legend of Zelda, the Castlevania franchise, Metroid, Ico, and Shadow of the Colossus.

This game is available on Windows, OSX, and Linux