Ember the Werefox

Ember the Werefox is a story-driven game about young Ember, who explores a dream forest by day and fights its terrors as a mystical Werefox by night. You gather resources, craft supplies and prepare for darkness, then use fiery abilities, cosmic powers and combinations of upgrades to battle increasingly dangerous enemies. The four-chapter story follows Ember as memories from beyond the forest intrude on her dreams and she relies on magical friends to overcome the manifestations of her nightmares.

Explore the dream forest

During the day, you investigate the woods, collect materials and find fox foods by picking, pulling, gathering and catching them. Food empowers Ember’s Werefox form. Crafting has no menus: you combine components as you move through the forest, using the limited daylight to explore, scavenge and prepare light sources for nightfall.

The dream forest includes several procedurally evolving woodland biomes. Defeating the fragments of fear that appear at night gradually adds new food sources to the forest, giving Ember ways to grow stronger.

Fight as a Werefox

When darkness falls, Ember takes on her combat-proficient form and faces relentless spooky enemies. Meals let you combine skills, while fiery abilities and magical powers help you fight back against an increasingly heavy onslaught.

Each dream offers new choices and combinations:

• Feasting lets you experiment with Werefox abilities through a branching, expanding skill tree.
• Clever feats during the day earn Solis, which offer randomized choices of productive Sun Powers.
• Victories at night earn Lunis, which offer randomized choices of combat-oriented Moon Powers.

Grow between dreams

When Ember is defeated in a dream, she wakes in her bedroom, where her talking plush fox absorbs the dreamite she collected. The plush converts it into courage, which you spend on new abilities and permanent upgrades. Plush upgrades and story-based tasks completed in dreams remain permanent, while each new dream provides a fresh start.

Specific achievements in dreams unlock dozens of outfits that enchant Ember and the dream forest in different ways. Before returning to bed, Ember can also review illustrations in her dream journal, which tracks discoveries and progress and provides rewards.