A cute tower protection sport launched final week that has you utilize tetromino blocks as a way to DIY a tower protection maze. Emberward, the debut title from indie studio Refic Video games, is a inventive little sport that makes you utilize your head to puzzle out best layouts to your maze earlier than utilizing a set of towers you have chosen your self to defend the bonfire at its middle. There is a demo out now that permits you to play via the primary space with a barely restricted set of skills.
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 profitable just a few waves of attackers per stage. You additionally get expertise to construct out your chosen character’s expertise tree, and you discover relics alongside the way in which that give little tweaks to your powers. It is a fairly customary setup, however the way in which 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 mixture of customizing your individual suite of towers with selecting block placement means you’ve got a perfect technique arrange upfront—like numerous switchbacks or lengthy straightaways—that you simply then should adapt to the tactical scenario if you truly see the structure of the extent you are combating 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 towards enemies, reasonably than lie in look ahead to 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 sport designs is so broad—I am to see what new characters and towers will carry.
Yow will discover Emberward on Steam for $15, with a ten% off launch sale for the following 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 last area with increased difficulties and but extra towers/relics/characters. Past these two updates Refic hopes so as to add customized sport modes, an in-game compendium, controller assist, further maps and variant boss battles, and Steam achievements sooner or later.
