Cygnus Cross has shown off all-new gameplay footage for their highly anticipated dark fantasy ARPG adventure, Emberville.
The new trailer showcased never-before-seen gameplay, including a brief look at character customization, extended combat sequences, the inventory and character stats screen, and a new NPC. Alongside the new gameplay comes the newest cast member reveal, Amelia Tyler, known for her role as the narrator in Baldur’s Gate 3, Hecate from Hades II, Elena Nightingale from Warframe, and many more voices across the games industry. Amelia joins a talented cast that already includes Alex Jordan (The Alters, Cyberpunk 2077), Doug Cockle (The Witcher) and Abubakar Salim (Assassin’s Creed: Origins).
Customization is key in Emberville. From cross-class combat skills to a full creative building area, players are encouraged to play their way. Building on the two-button combat system, Emberville offers a weapon-bound combo system in addition to class-related skills. Unlock new combos for a variety of weapons and chain different types of attacks to unleash devastating strikes on enemies. Learning skills from leveling multiple classes allows the player to tailor the active combat class for a unique playstyle.
The estate gives players a location to place buildings, decorations, farms, crafting equipment, and more, with many items and buildings offering further customization options. To ease inventory management between tasks like farming, fishing, building, and combat, Emberville features a dynamic UI system, which adjusts the HUD seamlessly when approaching areas for each task.
- 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 leveled-up class to another, allowing the player customize the active combat class.
- Fast-paced Combat Mechanics: The combat is fast-paced and action-oriented, with a wide variety of weapons, skills, and abilities.
- Multifaceted Game Progression: Progression is multifaceted, with players leveling up weapon and armor categories to unlock new classes, leveling up and learning crafting and gathering skills, rescuing NPCs to enhance and rebuild Emberville, and exploring the world to uncover hidden treasures and secrets.
- Farming, Gathering, and Crafting: Emberville features farming, gathering, and crafting skills that can be used to grow crops, gather plants, wood, and minerals, and craft items, which can be improved by leveling up, learning skills, blueprints, and recipes.
- Estate: A customizable creative player area, with houses, buildings, and objects that can be custom-placed and used to improve skills, craft items, and as a chill spot.
- Procedural Generation: The world of Emberville can be explored through a giant procedurally generated world that contains procedurally generated levels with a great variety of events, biomes, enemies, treasures, and so on.
Emberville launches on Steam Early Access this year.