Emberward
Fair · RPG · 2024 · Early Access
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $16.99. Buy it if you want it.
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- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2GB GPU Memory, capable of OpenGL 3.0+ support, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $11.24. That was April 2025. 19 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $16.99 at 15 percent off still sits 51 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cave Crawlers (free, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Where Winds Meet (free, scores 59).
This site sampled 414 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 227 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Emberward scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2459550/emberwardThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 23.
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