Emberglass

Emberglass is an open-world mini-metroidvania about finding your way home from a sunless land. You wake among speaking stones in a strange place of ruins, monsters and hollow bones, with only a memory of falling asleep in your own world on a hill near the cresting lights. The place is said to be a faerie hill, where people can be taken to the land of the good folk, the grey folk and the faeries, but this land is empty and lonely. You explore it in search of a way back.

Explore the land

The world is made up of 54 unique maps. Its layout is non-linear: you can find items and defeat bosses in any order, and solve puzzles using the tools you have available. Each puzzle has multiple solutions, so you can find your own way through it. The game also has a full day-and-night cycle and changing weather, including fog, rain and overcast conditions.

Items and survival

You have no health bar. Each time you are hit, you fade until you disappear completely. You can carry only two items, one in each hand; to take a new one, you must drop one you already have. Anything you pick up can be used as an item, making your choices part of solving puzzles and navigating the land.

Bosses and challenges

There are four bosses: three hidden throughout the land and one final boss. Optional timers track your speedrun time or kill count. You can attempt to finish the game with zero kills, five kills or 100 kills.