About This Game

Embers of Eternal Night is a gothic single-player, top-down survival action game. You move, evade hordes and avoid ground warnings while your hunter attacks automatically. Defeat enemies, collect experience and turn your starting weapon into a build that can break through the encirclement.

Different hunters, different ways to fight

Choose a hunter with a distinct weapon and attack rhythm. Cut through enemies with an iai strike, unleash chain lightning or control a crowd with area freezing. Learn your weapon coverage and create room to attack through movement.

Choose one of three upgrades and shape your build

Each level offers three random choices. Strengthen weapons, choose modules, blessings and relics, then meet the requirements for evolutions and synergies. Extra projectiles, wider attacks and linked effects can take the same hunter in different directions.

Survive the escalation. Defeat the final boss.

Hordes, elites, environmental traps and bosses build pressure over roughly six minutes. The timer reaching zero does not end the fight: if the final boss is still alive, keep moving and attacking until it falls or you do.

Cross Mourning Graveyard, Sunken Bell City and Ossuary Cloister, adapting to their environmental mechanics, altars and obstacles.

Return with a new goal

Spend embers earned on expeditions on permanent growth. Complete hunter contracts to unlock more characters, or take on map mastery for cosmetic and record rewards. Return with a different hunter, build or difficulty.

Review your unlocked hunters, maps and abilities in the main menu before your next expedition.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some pre-generated 2D artwork, visual effects, icons, maps, promotional images, and achievement artwork were created or refined with generative AI during development. All AI-generated output was reviewed, edited, and integrated by the development team. The game does not use generative AI at runtime and does not generate player-facing text, images, audio, music, code, or other content while you play.