Indie developer Cygnus Cross shared a new trailer for Emberville, their new action-adventure RPG with farming elements.

The new gameplay shows off more of action-adventure farming RPG, alongside news of new additions to its team. Assassin’s Creed: Origins actor Abubakar Salim has joined the game’s voice cast. 

“I look for projects that take risks, and Emberville is absolutely pushing the envelope,” Salim said in a press release. “Seeing how this team is deconstructing the genre is inspiring, and doing it with such intellect and intent is awesome.”

Previously confirmed as a core cast member, Alex Jordan (The Alters, Cyberpunk 2077, Dragon Age: The Veilguard) is now also serving as the game’s performance director.

“The thing that really makes any project stand out to me is the developers themselves, the people at the core of it all,” Jordan said in a press release. “You can have the best concept in the world, but if the team isn’t utterly devoted and approaching it with a level of detail and nuance, the result will always be mediocre. Cygnus Cross showed me that not only is Emberville an incredibly cool idea, but they also have that detail and nuance in overflowing abundance. Their care and commitment to creating something with legacy and quality for their players is what truly makes me excited about Emberville. Oh, and I lied to Doug about him getting sausages to help get the deal across the line… don’t tell him.”

Here’s a rundown on the previously announced game, plus a new trailer:

Emberville is an action-adventure RPG goes beyond the conventional expectations of similar “farm & fight’’ games, with a simple-yet-deep combat system, an inherited skill leveling system, and challenging boss fights, and the new gameplay trailer offers players a glimpse of what to expect.

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 creative area 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. 

Emberville will offer players an ambitious combination of game systems and mechanics that go far beyond the traditional staples of basic resource gathering and combat that “fight and farm” games are well known for. The leveling system in the game will let players not only swap between different classes, but also allow them to inherit active and passive abilities from that leveled class into a new one, which will allow for flexibility and creativity as each player can find a combination that is unique to their playstyle.

Exclusive Features

• 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. 

Key Features:

• Fast-paced Combat Mechanics: Action-oriented combat featuring a variety of weapons, skills, and abilities.
• Multifaceted Game Progression: Level up weapon and armor categories to unlock new skills, learn and improve gathering and crafting skills, rescue NPCs to rebuild Emberville, and explore the world to uncover hidden treasures and secrets.
• Farming, Gathering, and Crafting: Grow crops; gather plants, wood, and minerals; and craft items.
• Creative Area: Customize a player area with houses, buildings, and objects that can be used to improve skills, craft items, and relax.
• Procedural Generation: Explore the giant procedurally generated world of Emberville, featuring levels with a variety of events, biomes, enemies, treasures, and more.

Emberville is set to launch sometime this summer for Windows PC (via Steam), via early access.