Emberhold

Emberhold is a free strategy game made with AI by @lameck0, and you can play it right here in your browser.

Emberhold is a cozy-but-epic village defense strategy game: take command of a tiny woodland settlement and hold it through ten nights of monster waves — each one bigger, meaner, and hungrier than the last.

Build by day, survive by night

Days are for building. Spend food, wood and stone to raise watchtowers and heavy ballistae along the palisade, upgrade the whole wall ring from wooden stakes to fortified stone, work the farm, sawmill and quarry, and recruit heroes — a stalwart Knight, a keen-eyed Ranger, and a Mage who hurls searing starfire.

Choose which monsters you fight

At dusk, scouts bring word of the horde: packs approaching from different sides, named face by face — "6 Goblin Raiders and a Dark Shaman." Pick one pack for your heroes to meet out in the open field, where every kill pays double loot... and every pack you leave alone throws itself at your walls. It's the choice at the heart of every night: fight smart, or brace hard.

From outpost to city

Every dawn the village wakes: villagers produce resources, scouts return with loot (or something better), walls are repaired for stone, and the settlement climbs from Outpost toward Hamlet, Village, Town... and finally a City — the hall itself grows taller, stone and banners rising with every milestone. Monsters scale up every single night, troll bosses stomp in on the big nights, and if the hall falls, everything falls.

Ten nights. One bonfire. Hold the walls.