When the Embers Wake

When the Embers Wake is a third-person narrative adventure in which you play as a young red panda facing the flames destroying her forest home. Through her journey, the game tells the story of her relationship with her mother and explores emotional and environmental challenges.

Explore the forest

You wander through hand-crafted environments, where visual details and atmospheric design tell stories. Exploration and action interactions shape this two-hour experience, which focuses on emotional discovery and unfolds through narration, animation and the environment.

Emmie’s story

The narrative moves through the childhood experiences of Emmie, a young woman who faced a difficult childhood, and follows how her relationship with her mother evolved. Through the red panda’s journey of understanding and acceptance, the game explores grief, loss and emotional resilience, as well as the effects of deforestation on wildlife habitats and the creatures that live in them.