NOTE:
This is a pre-order. Orders including pre-orders are held until everything is available to ship together. If you add additional items to your order, you may be charged additional shipping and your entire order will be held until Embers arrives. It is estimated that Adventurous Kickstarter Alternative products will ship in February 2026.

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Embers is a solo-only game of survival. Use your heroes to defend against waves of encroaching monsters and keep your campfire lit.

Each turn, spawn new monsters to face. Spend each hero’s action points to move them around the campfire, defend against monsters, upgrade their abilities, support each other, and forage for material to keep the fire going.

After the heroes act, the monsters strike: damage the nearest hero or even the fire itself.

When the night card appears, time passes. Survive four hours until dawn without the fire being extinguished to win!

Embers: The New Guard introduces three new heroes with unique maneuvers and special abilities. These heroes can be used in the base game or as part of the expansion.

The expansion keeps all the gameplay from the base game, and also introduces a new mechanic, where two upgraded heroes are placed into the tent during setup as Reserve Heroes. Each Reserve Hero is given a Reinforcement Requirement from one of the three Reinforcement Cards (12 possible requirements in total). When the player meets a given requirement, that Reserve Hero becomes available to deploy into camp to strengthen the party. Based on the chosen difficulty level, a certain number of requirements must be met to win the game, as well as surviving until dawn without losing all Fire Cards.

VARIANTS

Embers wallet game - required for all games

Embers: The New Guard - 3 card expansion packed in a card sleeve (requires Embers base wallet game)
https://buttonshygames.com/products/embers-the-new-guard

• Design: Steven Aramini
• Art: Steven De Waele
• BGG: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/434862/embers