When the Embers Wake

About the Game

When the Embers Wake is a third-person narrative adventure game where you play as a young Red Panda looking to survive amidst ongoing threats to the environment and wildlife.​

Game Features

• Third person exploration/walking simulator through the eyes of a red panda

• Wordless storytelling through animation and environment

• Hand-crafted environments to explore

• Meaningful interactions with wildlife and nature

• 2-hour intimate narrative experience

• Available on PC & Steam Deck​

Gameplay

A gentle, contemplative experience focused on exploration and emotional discovery

🌲Explore

Wander through hand-crafted environments that tell their own stories through visual details and atmospheric design.

🐾Interact

Connect with animals, objects, and natural elements in meaningful ways that advance the narrative without words.

✨Experience

Immerse yourself in a story that goes through the different life stages of a red panda, experiencing the new reality of the forest

Themes

Explore profound themes through gentle, wordless storytelling

💔Grief

Navigate the complex emotions of loss through a young red panda's journey of understanding and acceptance.

🌲Deforestation

Witness the impact of environmental change on wildlife habitats and the creatures that call them home.

🦔Animal Survival

Experience the resilience and adaptability of wildlife in the face of an ever-changing world.

💪Emotional Resilience

Discover the quiet strength that emerges from vulnerability and the courage to continue despite loss.

🌅Hope

Find light in the darkness and learn that even in endings, there can be new beginnings.

🤔💭Choice

​Will you help the other animals? or will you persevere on your own?

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Will the embers take the forest?