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Emberward

96% positive of 4,350 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Refic Games.

About the game

Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!

Tagged by players

  • Falling Blocks
  • Tower Defense
  • Roguelike Deckbuilder
  • Deckbuilding
  • Base Building
  • Roguelite
  • Tactical
  • Building
  • Roguelike
  • Procedural Generation
  • Resource Management
  • Cartoony

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Overwhelmingly Positive

What players say

  • Recommended
    As a roguelike it's pretty bad but as a tower defense game it's pretty good! The different characters change the playstyle dramatically and there's a lot of different maps and layouts and clever ways to build. The visuals are solid and there are a lot of unique towers and strong ideas that benefit from all different types of mazing. All the different maps and zones introduce mechanics to play around and there's…

    15 h played when written. 6 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Honestly I'd give this a "meh" rather than a thumbs down if I could. It's *fine*, it has good bones, it is quite polished, but if you're an experienced TD player you will find it lacking. The concept of getting mazing blocks as a separate resource to towers, plus the roguelike elements are what sets it apart from other TD games (though there are other roguelike TD games), but I'm going to echo what another negative…

    20 h played when written. 7 found it helpful.

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