Planned Release Date: Sep 15, 2026

About This Game

The mountain caught you. It won't apologize.

A child falls beneath Mount Aldercap, into the home of the exiled emberkin - small fire-spirits whose great Forge is going out. An old hearth-keeper entrusts you with her last ember: carry it down to the Deep Forge, and for one breath, the way home opens.

Standing in the way: shy soot-sprites, anxious candles, a drowned wick, a water-drop lost from the sky, the last spark of a dead hearth, a captain in mourning, and a Forgemaster who stopped believing in doors. Every one of them can be talked down. None of them have to die.

Key Features

• Turn-based battles where you dodge bullet patterns as a small red ember - FIGHT, ACT, ITEM, or MERCY
  
• Kindness is mechanical: comforting a spirit visibly thins its attacks, and a WARMTH gauge fills as you act kindly and dodge cleanly - spend it to KINDLE, and mercy comes easy (even bosses soften)
  
• Five regions to descend - the Cinderfall, the abandoned Hollows, the Gloamway, the flooded Sump, and the Deep Forge - hand-lit with dynamic lighting, optional detours, two shops, and a superboss behind a door only the rain remembers
  
• Nine spirit types, a mini-boss, two multi-phase bosses with route-dependent variants, and one hidden superboss with mechanics all its own
  
• Three endings that remember your specific journey: who you spared, the cold hearths you rekindled, the small warm keepsakes you carried to the fire
  
• New Game Plus - the deep remembers past journeys and greets a returning ember differently - plus "The Deep Remembers," a bestiary of every spirit you've met, spared, or let go cold
  
• Original chiptune soundtrack with a "Songs of the Deep" jukebox, dialogue portraits, Assist Mode, Reduce Motion, and adjustable text speed

Spare everyone, or no one. The Forge takes what you bring it.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Some of this game's assets were made with the assistance of generative AI tools and were reviewed, curated and hand-finished by the developer. No content is generated while you play.