Amber Trail

In Amber Trail, you rebuild a settlement around the only structure left from the previous one: a destroyed tower. The former settlers died, and you must establish a foothold along the trade route without sharing their fate. Fight monsters, develop your character, recruit an army and workers, grow the economy, and build defenses. Fame unlocks trade with other settlements, where you can exchange goods and open up new settlements. The trail can bring wealth and fame, but it can also consume you.

Develop your character

You gain experience by killing monsters. Your character can reach level 54, choosing a new active or passive skill at each level. You can also improve your sword at a blacksmith building using raw materials; each upgrade changes its appearance and increases its attack and damage range.

More than 10 unique monsters attack the settlement, each with a different role that affects how you defend against them. Their types include ranged, magic, melee, charging, tanking, supportive and biome monsters.

Recruit and manage workers

You can hire workers for various jobs, set their task priorities and manage food consumption. Workers have needs: they may become hungry and crave specific foods, need somewhere to sleep, or want to pray to a particular god. Meeting those needs makes them happy and earns fame points.

Workers can also serve as soldiers. The three available types are:

• Archer: a ranged defensive unit that can climb towers and avoid direct contact with monsters. Archers can be upgraded one level at a time.
• Swordman: a melee unit that effectively blocks monsters.
• Witch: a supportive unit that heals wounded units, prays to the gods and accelerates plant growth.

Build and trade

The game has five building categories: Houses, Farming, Industry, Defense and Faith, with three buildings currently in each category. Buildings require resources and free space to construct, and can be upgraded with rarer resources. You can obtain these through trade with other settlements or as gifts from traveling merchants.

There are 22 different resources. Raw materials have different values based on rarity, but their prices fluctuate, so the same goods may cost more or less at different times. Trading with other settlements also earns fame points, which unlock the ability to trade with them.