Four ages of men have risen and fallen. Zeus means to end the last. Prometheus has other plans.
You wake from clay and Titan ash, made by the Titan who once stole fire for mankind. Survive a sun-baked Greek world, build a home from timber to marble, bond with the beasts of the wild, and stand against the gods who want you gone.
Hesiod told of the Ages of Man: Gold, Silver, Bronze, the Heroes, and Iron. Each was made by the gods, and each was unmade. Their temples still stand in the grass, cracked and overgrown.
Prometheus gave your ancestors fire, and for that gift he hangs in chains on a mountain crag. Yet he has not abandoned you. From clay and the ashes of the Titans he has shaped mankind once more: not one hero, not one king, but you.
“I gave your ancestors fire. Not merely to warm their hands, but to give them the power to shape their own future.”Prometheus
The gods have their own quarrels and their own ambitions. You will stumble, you will suffer, and you may even fall. But you will learn. And perhaps, in time, Olympus will learn something of you.
Hunger, thirst, day and night, storms. Keep your fire alive: wood burns down, and rain puts out a fire with no roof over it. Gather wood, stone, clay, fibre, ore and marble, and work them at the workbench, sawmill, stonemason and forge.
Snap together foundations, walls, arches, roofs, stairs, balconies and gates. Pave your own roads, plant gardens, raise a greenhouse of glass.
Echidna, Mother of Monsters, grants the Bond. Tame, name and ride the animals of Greece. Breed them for stronger young, with traits from mother and father and rare mutations along the way, and raise the young yourself: the bond you build makes them fight harder at your side.
The Minotaur waits in its lair. The bronze giant Talos walks the land. Seek out the Oracle of Apollo, the shrines of the gods, and a wandering trader in Hermes' service. Play alone, or with friends in co-op, each following your own story through the same world.
Villages with agoras, fountains and statues. Sanctuaries heavy with offerings. A fishers' landing on a quiet lake. And the volcano Thera, its crater full of molten rock. The map fills in with every place you find.
Every shot is from the game itself, in pre-alpha.
We keep a scrapbook of every step: the first dark plain, the struggles on the way, the feedback from our testers, and the world as it stands today. Day by day, nothing polished away.
Ember & Clay is in pre-alpha and grows with every update. Next on the road:
Later, other pantheons will join a never-ending story, and your bases stay with you through it all.
An independent game studio from the Netherlands. We work with AI: the ideas, the story and the final say are ours, and AI helps us build.
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