
- 60/100
- Metacritic7 critic reviews
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 36/100
- GameFAQsplayers
- 0.5/5
- Player reviews
- 58% positive82 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$29.99
Where to get it

2022 · Sky Machine Studios · Strategy · Tactical
Winter Ember
Winter Ember is an immersive stealth action game that casts you into the role of Arthur Artorias, the faceless man. Step into the shadows and uncover a mysterious plot that saw your family torn from the history books. On the first night of winter, you unsheath your blade and seek vengeance.
- Released
- 19 April 2022
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4PlayStation 5WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/S
- Genres
- StrategyTacticalAdventure
- Developers
- Sky Machine Studios
- Publishers
- Blowfish StudiosGamirror Games
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Third personBird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionFantasyStealthSandbox
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
- Age ratings
- PEGI 18ESRB TACB MA 15+USK 18CLASS_IND 16
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
- Features
- Family SharingFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam CloudSteam achievements
- Time to beat
- 6hmain story28hcompletionist
›Story
Set in a Victorian-esque world, Winter Ember follows the story of Arthur Artorias, a faceless man in pursuit of answers and revenge. Returning after a near-decade of exile to the city of Anargal, where he was stripped of his family, fortune, and past, Artorias clashes with Greater Heaven, a tyrannical religious militant faction that has seized control of the town in his absence. To survive his homecoming, Artorias must rely on his wits and use the darkness to his advantage.
Infiltrate and explore vast Gothic sandboxes brimming with treasure and mysteries to uncover. Move quickly and quietly through the shadows while surveilling the environment, peering around corners and through keyholes in search of lurking enemies and hidden passageways. In Winter Ember, there are multiple paths forward and solutions to every problem. Stalkers are rewarded for studying their surroundings and identifying less obvious modes of entry or egress.
Even when backed into a corner and seemingly forced to use a weapon, Artorias can evade combat by crafting one of more than 30 specialty arrows to escape the situation. Water missiles, for example, can douse flames and create dark new hiding spots in which to disappear.
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