Emberfall
Released
A candle with gun boots falls into a pitch-black well. Your light is your life - feed the flame, or the dark wins.
A candle's descent into the dark
You are a tiny candle with gun boots, falling into a very dark well. Your flame is the only light down there - and it is also your life.
Stomp monsters by landing on them. Press jump in mid-air to fire your boots straight down: every shot slows your fall. Chain kills before you touch the ground for big combos, collect embers until you BLAZE, and choose an Ember of Power after every level. How deep can your little light go?
Stomp monsters by landing on them. Press jump in mid-air to fire your boots straight down: every shot slows your fall. Chain kills before you touch the ground for big combos, collect embers until you BLAZE, and choose an Ember of Power after every level. How deep can your little light go?
Light is life
- Your flame slowly burns down, and every hit costs a quarter of it
- The lower it burns, the smaller your candle and the less of the well you can see
- Embers, kills and combos feed it - land a 15+ combo for a big relight
- Blaze stops the burning for a while. Don't dawdle in the dark
Features
- Fast arcade roguelite with a new well every run
- 7 gun boots: Spark, Scatter, Stream, Lance, Nova, Twin and Seeker
- 25 Embers of Power, plus shops run by the Lamplighter
- 4 zones with their own rules: The Shaft, Mushroom Hollow (bouncy), Frost Veins (crumbling ice) and The Furnace (lava)
- A boss waiting at the heart of the dark - then endless mode
- Daily Dive: the same well for everyone, every day
- 8 unlockable color styles, from Gloomboy greens to Pico
- 12 achievements to hunt
- Procedural chiptune soundtrack
Controls
- A / D or arrow keys: move
- Space (or W / Up): jump - press or hold it again in the air to fire your gun boots
- S / Down: drop through thin ledges, visit the Lamplighter's shop
- R: reroll the Embers of Power
- P: pause
- Gamepad supported
Credits
- Game design, code, pixel art, music and sound: Forrest
- Everything is made from scratch - every sprite is hand-placed pixel art, and every sound effect and song is synthesized in code while the game loads. No stock assets.
- Built with s&box by Facepunch
- Thanks for playing! Feedback and bug reports are very welcome in the Forum tab.