Indie developer Cygnus Cross has announced a release window for Emberville, their new action-adventure RPG with farming elements.

Emberville is set to launch sometime this summer for Windows PC (via Steam), via early access. The current build of the game includes a fully playable experience with a substantial amount of content. The game will get content updates throughout its estimated 12 months of early access development.

The pixelated action RPG and farm sim has been in development since 2023 and got attention from popular gaming Twitch streamer, CohhCarnage, who started a partnership with the team and started helping co-develop the title.

“Emberville is an amalgamation of everything we love, combined with new, fun, and immersive mechanics designed to make it stand out,” CohhCarnage said in a press release. “It’s made by gamers, for gamers. We can’t wait for you to take this journey with us, because it’s been one hell of an adventure over the last few years.”

Cygnus Cross also confirmed voice acting talent Alex Jordan and Doug Cockle are the first of “many beloved voice actors” that are lending their talents to yet unnamed characters in the game, with more to follow.

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

Emberville is anaction-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.