Before the Ember Dies

Can you save Lucy and Teddy?

Roguelite Puzzle Strategy Light horror
Coming soon to Android and iOS

Build an old manor room by room, find Lucy, and escape before your lantern goes out.

You, Lucy and Teddy are trapped in an old manor. A voice in the dark welcomes you. The man neither Heaven nor Hell would take challenges you: find Lucy and the way out before your ember dies. If the light fails, the night begins again.

Draft the house: pick one of three floorplans for the room behind a door
Draft the house

Build the house as you go

Every door you open, you choose what lies behind it. Pick one of the floorplans and lay the manor out room by room: halls, bedrooms, gardens, shops, and rooms with a price of their own.

Every step costs an ember: the turnip lantern in the Front Hall
Mind your lantern

Every step costs an ember

Your turnip lantern burns on borrowed embers, and each doorway takes one. Find keys for locked doors, apples for the finer floorplans, coins for the shops and dice to redraw a bad draft. Plan your route, or the dark plans it for you.

Stars, lasting upgrades and keepsakes at the end of a run
Roguelite

Every night is different

No two houses are the same: 40 rooms, drawn at random behind every door. Earn stars, buy lasting upgrades, collect keepsakes, and go back in better prepared. Find Teddy, find Lucy, and see how each night can end.

A voiced story scene: someone left a light on
Story

A story with four endings

A mystery told in voiced scenes, with subtitles. Who leaves the house, and who stays behind, is up to how you play.

Features

What waits inside

A night takes about ten minutes. The game plays offline, and a night left halfway is waiting when you come back.

  • Roguelite strategy and puzzle runs in a haunted mansion
  • Choose the room behind every door and draw the map yourself
  • 40 rooms with their own doors, costs and secrets
  • Lasting upgrades and keepsakes between runs
  • Four endings and a voiced story, with English voices and subtitles in 13 languages
  • Runs of about ten minutes, playable offline

English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Português, Русский, Türkçe, हिन्दी, Bahasa Indonesia, 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文

Key art: the old manor at dusk Draft the house: choose the room behind every door Mind your lantern: every step costs an ember A story told in the dark: it started with a picnic on the hill Old puzzles: light every candle and see what catches Strike a deal: someone in this house likes to trade Fully voiced: someone left a light on for you Come back stronger: keep what you find, spend what you earn

Light horror: dread, creaking floors and things not quite right, without gore.

Support

Questions or feedback?

Write to oztamazapps@gmail.com. If something went wrong, the device model and the game version help a lot.