The Ash Remembers

The Ash Remembers is an idle dark fantasy RPG set in the land of Veyr. The player arrives at the gates of Emberwake as an amnesiac stranger called Wanderer. The game keeps running in the background and while offline. It is bought once, with no energy bars or paid waiting times. A recent update added 21 DLC items on Steam.

Play centres on six heroes (Kaelen, Dorn, Veyl, Sera, Nyx and Liraël), each with its own strengths and weaknesses, and 21 skills that can each be levelled to 100. Content includes 110 enemies with individual loot tables and weaknesses, 7 dungeons with 35 bosses across normal, heroic and mystic difficulty, 11 world bosses and 11 titans. There are over 1,000 items with affixes, sockets and tempering, 67 uniques, and a boss forge for crafting specific weapons. Other systems include 38 companions, a homestead called Emberhome, daily contracts, three houses to join, and a collection log, museum and bestiary. Three modes are available: Standard, where death costs gold; Ashen Path, a single-life mode; and Hermit, which removes the market and trading. After repeated defeats to the same enemy, the game explains the likely cause using the player’s own figures and offers a weaker opponent.

The rebirth system, called Ashfall, resets progress while keeping ember ash and a growing ember tree. Achievements, companions, titles and Emberhome carry over. Ashfalls unlock further content, including the Ash Wound, an underground area with 25 foes in five layers, hourly changing conditions and a voiced chronicle of 11 chapters. Later updates added the Shaft of Names dungeon, the Silent Chamber laboratory for catching and researching 45 creatures, Ember Grades for setting endgame boss difficulty, three Titans of Ash, and the Ash Book with 120 entries and new gemstones.