Developer Cygnus Cross has announced an Early Access release window of (Northern) summer 2026 for ARPG and town/farm sim Emberville. For the gameplay, think Diablo-lite meets Stardew Valley. The game goes beyond traditional “farm and fight” games with a simple (yet deep) combat system, an inherited skill levelling system, and challenging boss fights. Today’s new gameplay trailer showcases what players can expect from the title.
Emberville is all for customization. There’s everything from cross-class combat skills to a full creative building area. The game builds upon the two-button combat system with a weapon-bound combo system in addition to class-related skills. Unlock new combos to perform devastating attacks. Levelling up multiple classes allows the player to tailor the active combat to their play style. The levelling system lets players swap between classes and inherit active/passive abilities from one levelled class into a new one.
The creative area is where players can place buildings, decorations, farms, crafting equipment, and more. The dynamic UI makes inventory easy, even between tasks like farming, fishing, building, and combat. The HUD adjusts seamlessly when approaching areas for a task.
Here are Emberville’s exclusive and key features, via Cygnus Cross.
Exclusive features:
- Unique Multi-layered Combat Mechanics: In addition to the traditional two-button combat system, Emberville features a weapon-bound combo system and class-related combat skills.
- Dynamic UI: A User Interface mechanic that changes the HUD in accordance with the player’s needs, making it easier to deal with multiple features without preventing the player from making their own decisions or managing their inventory.
- Inherited Skills: Combat skills that are inherited from one levelled-up class to another, allowing the player customize the active combat class.
Key features:
- Fast-paced Combat Mechanics: Action-oriented combat featuring a variety of weapons, skills, and abilities.
- Multifaceted Game Progression: Level up weapon and armour categories to unlock new skills, learn and improve gathering and crafting skills, rescue NPCs to rebuild Emberville, and explore the world to uncover hidden treasures and secrets.
- Farming, Gathering, and Crafting: Grow crops; gather plants, wood, and minerals; and craft items.
- Creative Area: Customize a player area with houses, buildings, and objects that can be used to improve skills, craft items, and relax.
- Procedural Generation: Explore the giant procedurally generated world of Emberville, featuring levels with a variety of events, biomes, enemies, treasures, and more.
Developed and published by Cygnus Cross, Emberville will be released in Early Access for PC via Steam this summer.
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