Emberward
Worth it · Roguelike · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Cost per hour
- $1.94/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 4,555
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 10.3h
- To 100%
- 152.7h 14.8x the story
- Achievements
- 100
Price and sales
- Sales
- 19 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $11.24 April 2025
- Sale every
- 39d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 318 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 9% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
51% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
19 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Rogue Command ($19.99, scores 65) and Overdungeon ($14.99, scores 51) both come in lower.
More about Emberward
This site sampled 444 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 261 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 10.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 153, 15 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 36 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
In my mind, Emberward is exactly what I want a tower defense game to be. -The ability to build a maze, separately from positioning towers, which it accomplishes by giving you wall cards that you draw from your deck and can place every turn. -A wide variety of towers to choose from. -A wide variety of environments and decent variety of enemies, with various effects that change how I think about building my...
2 more reviews
Meanwhile this is a release review The definitive Tower Defense game A culmination of innovative ideas, condensed into a most fun and replayable experience. Concept, artistic direction, music, sound design, atmosphere, visuals, it all comes together. As the game progresses, the possibilites and variations for your prefered style of playing just increase. Even after hundreds of hours I still find new approaches. The...
Great tower defence game. Bring multiplayer than it will be perfect. One mode should be co op, other mode should be againts each other.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2GB GPU Memory, capable of OpenGL 3.0+ support, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Emberward scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2459550/emberwardReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.