Emberdeck Play free

Build a deck. Walk the ash road.

Emberdeck is a free roguelike deckbuilder that runs in your browser. Pick a hero, choose your route across a burning frontier and win fights by playing cards. Every victory offers new cards, so the deck you finish with is the one you built on the way.

No download and no account needed. Plays in Chrome or Edge on a desktop or laptop.

Three heroes to start

Each hero has a different resource and plays like a different game. Reach Act 2 with anyone and three more wake up: Sootveil, Stormherald, Cairnwarden.

How a run goes

  1. Choose your road

    The map splits into lanes. A stop can be a fight, an elite, a camp, a merchant, a chest or an event. At every fork you pick one.

  2. Fight with your hand

    You draw five cards and get 3 Energy each turn. Enemies show what they will do next, so you know when to block and when to go all in.

  3. Grow the deck

    Wins pay gold and offer new cards. Relics change the rules for the rest of the run. Potions give you one strong turn when you need it.

  4. Rest or sharpen

    At camp you either heal 30% of your max HP or upgrade one card. Each camp gives you one or the other.

  5. Break the guardian

    Each act ends in a guardian fight with its own phases. Beat all three acts to finish the run.

Three acts, three guardians

The short version

Price
Free.
Where it runs
Chrome or Edge on a desktop or laptop. Nothing to install.
Saves
Your run saves in your browser as you play. Sign in with Google to keep it in sync between computers.
What is in it
324 cards, 65 relics, 13 potions, 12 events and 16 enemies, 4 of them guardians.
Difficulty
Gentle, Standard or Hard, chosen when you start a run.

Your first run starts with ten cards.

Play free in your browser