Frostwake: The Last Ember Demo

THE LAST EMBERThe dead took the world. What was left of humanity fled north by ship and climbed into the crater of a sleeping volcano, where a coal Furnace can still be lit. The dead do not come this far. Up here it is the cold that kills. Frostwake is a survival city builder where heat is the map and every decision has a bill attached. You build the streets, place the buildings, assign the workers and sign the laws of the last town on Earth, while the calendar counts down to the Great Storm.

Whoever is still alive after it will face the Thaw. Who will you feed first? Who works the mine? And who will you be when the ice finally melts?KEEP THE FURNACE BURNINGEvery tile has a temperature. The Furnace warms a circle around it, roads carry that warmth outward, and a building with no road back to the Furnace simply does not work. Coal keeps it alive; when the coal runs out you can burn wood and watch the city's hope go up the chimney with it.

Gusts and blizzards arrive with warning, never with mercy.FEED, HOUSE AND HEALYour citizens have names. Workers, engineers and children walk from home to work and back, eat one ration a day, get sick in the cold and die if you let them.…