I've watched videos and read the reviews, but does anyone here have experience playing the RPG Ember? If so, what do you think about the game? Worth the time?

Many thanks in advance.

I have played through it, was a fair old way back, but he fact I completed says it’s not bad. Don’t go in expecting anything too deep and you will be happy with it. Plenty of length. For £1.79 you can’t really go wrong (and consider it is £9.99 on istore!). The 7/10 scores seem to be right to me.

My steam review from a few years back...
https://steamcommunity.com/id/melfice181/recommended/339580?snr=1_5_9__402

If you read the reviews, doubt I have anything to say that somehow didn't make it into my ~3500-word one :))

But, yeah, if you don't have good stuff lying around, or don't care for what you do have, can do much worse than Ember. Light on character development, and skills being determined strictly by gear is... unpleasant, but combat can be interesting, and reasonably tactical as you go along, and there's some nice reading in the books you can find, though sadly, and oddly, the actual story isn't at that level.

Hey, I own it.

When the hell did I buy that?

It's solidly all right!

But seriously, I enjoyed it well enough. It doesn't have much replay value, and it's not an all time classic, but it's still pretty enjoyable.

Here's my (albeit brief) review:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_finished_in_2017/post705

Thanks all! I appreciate it.

So my takeaway is...

Ember is ok, but a bit simple, short, and not best to be played either after better RPGs or when I want something without all the big RPG baggage.

I checked the N-Fusion site and looks like they released the game and then promptly forgot about it. Doesn't make me want to rush to play a probable one-off. Ah, the way of so many indies...

Anyway, thanks again!!!

True about simple and not good after a good RPG, but I had 44h on the in-game timer at the end, so wouldn't call it short. Then again, I am slow and thorough, but still...

And other than the crashes when changing areas (which the autosaves make a nuisance but nothing more, since you just get back where you were right away, autosaves being made just before area changes), wouldn't say that it needed any more tending to. The issue with the constant reading off disk, wear concern if you have it on a HDD, but that has to do with the engine, not much they could have done about it post release I guess.

Controls take some getting used to though, being clearly designed for tablets. But as I said in the review, once you do, they seem to work better for a PC than those designed for consoles that are quite the norm in plenty of other games.

Mine said 27 [hours playtime]. It's short compared to the classics, but yeah, it's decent sized.