Refuge of Embers

Refuge of Embers Refuge of Embers is a story-rich adult visual novel for Android. Follow Biorn from a border village to Faruwine, make choice-driven bonds, and uncover secrets in a world in change.

Refuge of Embers

Refuge of Embers is a story-first adult visual novel packed with more than 55,000 words of narrative and dozens of erotic H-scenes. Step into a memorable adventure and enjoy a game world built to keep you engaged from beginning to end.

In Refuge of Embers, you begin in a quiet border village and travel all the way to the royal capital. Along the way, you’ll meet many characters with distinct backgrounds, personalities, and motives. As events unfold, you’ll learn what drives them—and the decisions you make during those moments will help shape both the plot and the emotional outcomes for you and the people around you. The game will keep expanding with new characters, story events, and H-scenes, so there’s always something new on the horizon.

Key Features

Captivating, story-driven adventure

Follow Biorn as he journeys through a world in dramatic transition. Expect twists, turns, and a growing sense of purpose as the story reveals more about what’s really going on.

A welcoming cast and relationships

Travel with Biorn and his companions in a remote frontier town. Their bonds and the friendships you form will influence how they react to the unfamiliar dangers of this new world.

Immersive locations and atmosphere

Venture to the edge of the known world: a brutal, impassable ring of dense forest filled with deadly creatures. Rich descriptions and detailed scenery are designed to spark your imagination.

Mysterious characters in a vast capital

Make your way to the enormous capital city of Faruwine, where Biorn encounters fascinating people. Learn secrets, form alliances, and navigate complicated relationships as the world grows stranger.

More depth as the story continues

As the plot progresses, you can expect character growth, stronger emotional beats, and major revelations that will leave you wanting to keep going.

What to Expect

• Visual novel format: Player choices steer the story, shaping character connections and story outcomes.
• Exploration and discovery: Move between varied settings—from frontier settlements to the busy capital city of Pyre—while meeting unique characters and uncovering mysteries.
• Branching, narrative-led gameplay: Follow a richly woven storyline with meaningful branching paths that affect Harth’s journey and the wider world.
• Hand-illustrated artwork: Detailed, hand-drawn visuals bring scenes to life and strengthen the overall mood.
• Character development: A varied cast with distinct personalities and backstories adds realism and narrative weight.

Changelog

Version 0.22 is live and available for play testing.

What changed in this update:

• We reworked major menu systems and the GUI, redesigning everything to improve controller support—especially on handhelds like the Steam Deck.
• The Android version received a more refined interface, including specially made assets rather than simply resizing PC assets.
• In the story, we focused on expanding and improving Eryn’s romance route. These improvements are part of a broader overhaul that is still ongoing.
• Total play time increased by about 10 minutes. This includes substantial rewrites to existing scenes, meaning some content was removed to accommodate the changes.
• As with the previous update, this version requires old persistent data to be deleted. If you run into unusual bugs on Windows, check your AppData folder for leftover persistent files, which may be located at:
  C:\Users[your username]\AppData\Roaming\RenPy\RefugeOfEmbers

UI and mobile adjustments:

• Based on feedback, we made the textbox and choice buttons slightly smaller in the redesign so there’s more room for artwork.
• The mobile version is where the biggest UI changes happened. The previous GUI was much larger, which caused layout problems.



• Earlier, dialogue and choice text could sometimes spill outside the text boxes on mobile. This was due to mismatched scaling between the mobile font/text boxes and the PC version. Now, both use the same percentage increase, so if it looks right on PC, it should appear appropriately scaled on mobile as well.

Quick menu improvements:

• We tested different quick menu button layouts (the small buttons along the bottom of the screen) and initially aimed to reduce them to only the most-used options.
• In the end, we decided it was better to let you control the number of buttons directly via a settings option.
• In Video Settings, you can switch between:
  • a standard 5-button panel

  

  • a full 8-button panel
  • or disable the quick menu entirely
• There may be a slight screen jitter when changing this setting for now, but we plan to address it in a later update.
• We added a film grain setting, which applies a subtle film grain effect.
• The visual direction aims for an older anime-inspired look, designed to complement the animations and add extra visual flair.

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