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Queue a fight, a harvest or a job at the forge, go and live your life, and come back to the loot. Embershard is a free medieval-fantasy RPG in your browser, with a chat room in every zone and an economy the players run.
Every swing is rolled and written down, round by round, whether you are watching or not. When you come back, the experience and the loot are already yours.
Not ready? Walk the map or look through everything in the game. Every place, item and drop rate is public, and none of it needs an account.
How it plays
The grind is the game
Combat, three gathering skills and five trades, each one to 99, on a curve where level 92 is halfway there. Progress is long on purpose, and it shows: profiles and leaderboards are public.
Every room has a conversation
Chat belongs to the zone you are standing in, and it shows who else is really there. Being somewhere means being in a conversation, not watching a progress bar alone.
An economy players run
Mine, farm and cut wood, carry it to the one city that knows the trade, and sell what you make at the single auction house. Break down what you outgrow to enchant what you keep, and brew elixirs for the hard fights. No shop sells you power.
Settle it in the arena
Stand in the Tiltyard, name your gear and a wager, and challenge anyone there. Neither of you sees the other's kit until the first swing. The winner takes the pot, and whoever runs is written down as having fled.
What is in it
- 37
- zones, and 14 more indoors and underground
- 105
- monsters, 11 of them bosses
- 462
- items, and 146 recipes to make them
- 41
- places to mine, farm and cut
All of it is in the reference, down to exact drop chances and the damage formula.
Your first 15 minutes
You wake on Ashfell Road with a hundred coins and no weapon. Goblins work the length of it, and there is copper in the ground. Dig some ore, cut an ash log in Greenglade next door, and pay the forge at Ironspire ten coins for a copper sword. Then go back for the goblins.
That is the whole game in miniature: gather, make, fight, then do it somewhere harder. Bare knuckles will not get you far, so arm yourself first. When you want coin, take work off a tavern board.
Where it is up to
Embershard is built in the open by one person. There is content all the way to level 99 and more arriving every week. Numbers get re-tuned as people play, nothing is ever wiped, and every change is written up in the news, with the reason why.
Latest: Coins from monsters, September 23, 2026.
There is a goblin on Ashfell Road with your name on it.