Emberholt

Emberholt — A Cozy & Brutal Medieval Dynasty Simulator

Emberholt is a medieval survival and dynasty simulator built with a clean vector art style, designed specifically for upright/portrait play on mobile browsers (though it plays completely fine on desktop too!).

This is my very first game! I absolutely love playing grand strategy and management games like Crusader Kings and Rimworld, but I noticed there really isn't anything quite like them for phones or for playing on the go. To make it worse, almost every mobile game in the genre is completely loaded with intrusive ads and microtransactions. I wanted to build something clean that anyone could just pick up and play without constant interruptions, so Emberholt is entirely ad-free and microtransaction-free.

The game is currently in active development, so you can expect regular updates as I take your feedback into account and build out new features!

The Premise

You start as the head of a tiny medieval hold with just a handful of souls and a dream. Your goal is to give your folk jobs, construct buildings, marry off your children, and keep the family line going generation after generation. It's easy to pick up, but choices matter deeply and winters are punishing. Your bloodline is always one bad choice away from extinction.

Core Features

• Consequences That Haunt You: Your choices have real weight. If you turn away an orphan or banish a problematic villager, don't expect them to just disappear—they might just return generations later at the head of a rebellion to steal your crown!
• Visual Hold Management: Develop your settlement directly on an interactive 2D map. While building locations on the map are pre-determined, you choose exactly which essential structures to raise—including field plots, cottages, granaries, and sheep pastures—to support your growing population.
• Balance Critical Resources: Keep a close eye on your food stores, wood, stone, renown, and coin to keep your village functioning.
• Weather the Seasons: Watch your environment shift and guide your folk through the dynamic cycle of the year. Face seasonal challenges like summer rot in your granaries or freezing, resource-draining winter frosts.
• Shape Your Dynasty: Track your lineage with a visual family tree. Marry off your children, monitor your chosen heir, and watch your family grow. Deal with internal family drama, sudden illnesses, and unexpected tragedies.
• Emergent Narrative Events: Make tough moral and tactical decisions when illustrated character cards for random wanderers, orphans, or colorful characters knock at your gates.
• Write Your History: Your choices directly generate an ongoing historical log. Your rulers will be permanently remembered by the hold’s chronicler with distinct mononims—whether they earn the title of "the Kind" or pass away entirely unremarked.

Form Factor & Tech

• Made for Phones: Completely tap-to-play and works best upright in portrait mode with a clean, responsive layout.
• Autosave: Progress saves automatically directly in your local browser storage so you can easily pick up where you left off.