Ember
Skip · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $3.49.
- Length
- 16.2h
- Value
- $0.22/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 2000 series or NVIDIA 8000 series, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Ember is a homage to classic role-playing games (RPG) that features a deep branching story, endless exploration across dynamic and living environments, a robust skill system, and an intricate crafting system.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was March 2020. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 86 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.49 at 65 percent off still sits 253 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 26 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Slormancer ($19.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut ($44.99, scores 37).
Of the 307 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 135 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
59% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Ember is an isometric action role-playing game developed by N-Fusion Interactive and published by 505 Games, conceived as a tribute to the classic CRPG era that defined the late 1990s and early 2000s. From its opening moments, it is clear that the game draws inspiration from genre staples such as Baldur's Gate and Ultima VII, embracing a top-down perspective, real-time combat with tactical pause, expansive quest...
A good little B-tier RPG game for under $10. Plot has fairly good tongue in cheek humor as it offers the usual tropes but makes pithy comments about them at the same time. Linear main path with a few optional side quests. Almost no character customization/builds or companion choices (pick 2 of the 3 offered). Minimal voice acting. Extensive crafting system for armor, weapons, and aids that is also almost entirely...
possibly one of the worst crpgs of all time, it screams "we make games cuz its a job" not "we play games", they learned nothing from the greats and youll be wishing for the glory days before you leave the first area....trash UI, looting, items, abilities, combat, tone, style etc etc, i hated it all, but if youre an incel simp cuck...it might be just your thing,
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Ember scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/339580/emberThe 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 Sep 22, price as of Sep 24.
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