FAQ

Yes. The game is free and will never be pay-to-win: no gear, gold or boosts for real money, and no loot boxes.

As a guest, your hero is saved by itself in your browser, on the device you play on. When Discord login opens (after 100 players have signed up), your heroes are also saved online and your guest hero comes with you. Clearing your browser data or using a private window removes them. You can see it in the game under Heroes → Save.

Please don't. A private or incognito window deletes everything when you close it, so your hero is lost. Play in a normal browser window. When Discord login opens (after 100 players have signed up), your heroes are also saved online.

Tap Play as guest and you can start right away, no sign-up. A guest plays 1 hero up to level 30: about 75 of the 200 quests and about 20 of the 50 achievements. You can delete it to start a new one. Sign up with Discord in the game: when 100 players have signed up, Discord login opens for everyone. Then you play the whole game with up to 4 heroes, saved online, and your guest hero comes with you.

Tap Sign up with Discord in the game (on the login screen or under Heroes → Save). The button shows how many players have signed up, for example 37/100. When 100 players have signed up, Discord login opens for everyone by itself. Then log in with the same Discord account: your guest hero comes with you.

Only your Discord ID and display name. No e-mail, password, servers or messages. See the privacy page.

The game now lives at www.RealmOfEmbers.com. Played on realm-of-embers.pages.dev before? Open the game there and tap "Take my heroes to www.RealmOfEmbers.com": your heroes, gold and bank come along in one tap, and a copy stays on the old address as a backup. Logged in with Discord? Just log in again on the new address. The old address keeps working for a few weeks, then it sends you to the new one.

Yes. Open Settings → Play on another device and make a code. On your other device, scan the QR code, open the link or type the code. The code works once, for 15 minutes. Play on one device at a time: the old device keeps its old copy. With Discord login (opens at 100 sign-ups) your heroes are also saved online.

Yes, Realm of Embers is also on itch.io. Your hero there is saved separately from this website. To move it, use Settings → Play on another device. Unique hero names are on this website, and the leaderboard is coming here soon.

Download a backup file now and then: Settings → Download a backup file. Keep it safe. If your save is ever lost, send that file to the Game Master on Discord and we restore it for you.

3 to 15 letters, no numbers, no spaces. Letters with accents (é, ö) are fine. On the website every name is unique, so pick it quickly before someone else does!

Yes. The game works in the browser on phones, tablets and PCs. On a PC the screen uses more space.

No, but coming back after a break gives a Rested bonus: your next fights give +50% XP until the bonus is used up. The longer you were away (up to 8 hours), the bigger it is.

Instinct (left of Brace, key A) makes a hasty move for you: one skill you can use right now, usually a strong one, sometimes a weaker one or Basic Attack, and it hits (or heals) for 80% of its normal power. It only heals when you are below half HP and never uses potions, Brace or Flee. After 10 weak Instinct moves your instinct falters: you choose your next 3 moves yourself, then it is back. Every move you pick yourself calms it again, so mixing both works best.

Buy them in the Shop: they go into your bag (up to 10 of each). In a fight, tap the flask button next to Potion (key E) and pick one. Using it takes your turn, like a potion. Elixirs, wards and oils last 20 fights, scrolls 30 minutes. A new Weapon Oil replaces the old one.

Yes, on a computer: 1–9 for your skills, 0 basic attack, A Instinct, B brace, Q potion, E elixirs, F flee, Space next fight, C camp and R rest.

In Realm of Embers they are separate. Up to level 9 every level gives a skill point. From level 10, even levels give a talent point and odd levels a skill point: 34 skill points and 26 talent points at level 60. Skill points make your skills stronger, talent points buy talents and passives. You cannot max everything, so every hero becomes your own build.

At level 20 you choose one of three specs in the Talents tab. Every spec card shows its role (DPS, TANK or HEALER), its bonus, weapons, what makes it unique and its spec skills. When you choose, all your skill and talent points come back for free, and a short guide tells you how to build for your spec. Changing your spec later costs gold.

When a companion fights beside you (the Archer pet, the Mage Elemental from level 25 or the Duskcaller Duskshade from level 45), you sometimes meet a pack of 2 or 3 monsters, like a wolf pack. They all attack, and you hit the front one until it falls. Pack monsters are weaker on their own, and each one gives XP, gold and a loot roll. Bosses, elites, rares, dungeons and the Tower never come in packs.

200 quests for every class (Archers get 9 more on the Hunter’s Path) and 50 achievements. Some quests are marked Hard: you need good gear for them, and they give extra loot. Achievements include exploring every zone and a bestiary: defeat 10 of every monster kind in a zone.

Yes, with the Mailbox in the Shop (needs Discord login, which opens at 100 sign-ups). Send any amount of gold and gear up to Legendary to another hero by name. Every mail costs a small fee of 2.5%. Mythic, Set and Relic items are soulbound and cannot be sent. Untaken mail goes back after 30 days.

100 silver is 1 gold. Monsters drop a few silver; quests, dungeons and selling items give more. On a phone you see gold with one decimal (12.4g), on a computer gold and silver (12g 45s).

On purpose: gear should feel special. Normal monsters often drop nothing or junk (sell it for gold). Elites, rares, bosses and dungeons drop better gear. Legendary and Mythic items are for the hardest content.

Every boss has its own mechanic, like Raise the Dead, Soul Siphon or Storm Volley. The fight starts with a warning that explains it, and the fight info shows when it comes next. Each dungeon has a Guide with all its bosses, their mechanics and the loot. The first time you enter a zone, a zone card shows its effect, its monsters and its boss; tap the book icon on a zone to read it again.

Casters charge an arcane bolt that goes through armor. Tap Brace in time to block 80% of it. Melee damage dealers (Bloodrage and Warmaster Warriors, all Rogues, Vindicator Paladins) can also strike the caster to break its focus: a skill has a 60% chance to cancel the bolt, Basic Attack 35%.

A little, and every race is useful. Human: +10% XP while leveling and small bonuses to everything. Moon Elf: dodge, crit chance, darkness and ice resistance. Dwarf: HP, less damage taken, fire and poison resistance. Orc: damage, crit damage, lightning and darkness resistance. Not every race can play every class.

Nothing is lost: you rest and try again. Only in Ember Ascension a failed run lowers that dungeon one level.

With Discord login (opens at 100 sign-ups) every hero from level 5 joins by itself (Battle tab → Leaderboard). The server checks every score, so impossible scores do not count. It shows Level, Tower, Ember Ascension, the current Season, Ember Levels, and for fun the most Deaths and Flees, and updates every 2 hours. Reaching the Top 10, the Top 3 or #1 earns achievements, and #1 on a board earns its own title.

Post it in the Discord with your class, spec, level and what you did. A screenshot helps a lot. Discord is for players 13 and older.