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. Six worlds deep, six guardians - how far can your little light go?
New: your keys, your language
- Every key can be rebound in OPTIONS > CONTROLS - the arrow keys always work too, and every hint names the key you actually use
- Play in English, German, Spanish, Russian or Chinese - the pixel font learned umlauts, accents, Cyrillic and Chinese
Hallow Night
- A spooky side dive of its own, right on the title screen: three graveyard levels and THE PUMPKIN KING
- Hopping jacks, shy spooks that only move while you look away, grave hands and spiders on their threads
- Everything you snuff can drop candy - every sweet relights your flame a little
- Survive it to unlock JACK O'WICK, a pumpkin candle for every dive, and the HALLOW style
- In October the title dresses up and candy drops are doubled
Light is life
- Your flame slowly burns down, and every hit costs a chunk 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
- 6 worlds, 24 levels: The Shaft, Mushroom Hollow, Frost Veins, The Furnace, the Sunken Cathedral and The Deep - each with its own monsters and hazards: dripping water, falling icicles, fire bars, swinging censers, living darkness
- 6 bosses, each in its own arena: The Broodmother, The Rot King, The Frost Warden, The Ember Wyrm, The Hollow Bishop - and The Gloom at the heart of the dark
- Elite monsters with glowing outlines: hardened, swift, spiked or vengeful - and full of embers
- 9 gun boots: Spark, Scatter, Stream, Lance, Nova, Twin, Seeker, Hail and Cannon
- 37 Embers of Power, plus shops run by the Lamplighter
- The Chapel: every dive earns wax, and you keep it when you die. Walk the candlelit chapel and spend it on candles to play, 8 altar blessings and 12 relics - 7 candles in all, one waits in Hallow Night
- Darkness 1-10: beat The Gloom to unlock harder dives that pay more wax - every level adds a new rule
- After the last boss: endless mode - and every loop the well adds two more Darkness rules
- 9 unlockable color styles, from Gloomboy greens to Pico and Hallow
- A bestiary in the chapel for every monster you snuffed, and a statistics page
- 25 achievements to hunt
- Hand-made pixel art, real-time dithered lighting and a fully synthesized 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
- In the Chapel: walk and jump to an item, S / Enter to buy or equip it
- Every key can be rebound in OPTIONS > CONTROLS (default layout above)
- Full controller support: stick or d-pad to move, A to jump and fire, RT to fire, Y to reroll, B back, Start to pause
Languages
- English, German, Spanish, Russian and Chinese - switch any time in OPTIONS > LANGUAGE