Ember Hollow

Ember Hollow is a glowing platformer about carrying light into the dark. Years after her father went down to hold back the Hush, the dark that puts out lights and keeps whoever carried them, the lamplighter's daughter Wren returns with his lantern. Relight the furnaces one by one, follow the warmth down through the old works, gather the Lumens, wake the sleepers the dark has kept, and bring everyone home.

FIVE CHAPTERS, FIFTY LEVELS
• Chapter I, The Foundry: caves of furnaces, springs, lifts and crumbling stone
• Chapter II, The Deep Works: steam vents that carry you upward, conveyor belts, fire jets that breathe on a beat, and iron gates opened by hidden levers
• Chapter III, The White Deep: crystal caverns, glass ledges and long falls, ending at a door of black iron
• Chapter IV, The Ashen Wood: a petrified forest of rotten-bark bridges, thorn beds and root springs, where the lost sleep among the roots
• Chapter V, The Hush: the dark's own halls, every machine at once, and the First Light waiting at the bottom

LIGHT IS YOUR WEAPON
• Shades fear your lantern: meet one head-on and it freezes; none will walk into the glow of a lit furnace
• Grey sleepers sit beside the braziers. Touch them with the lantern, or light a furnace nearby, and they wake, giving you back a heart
• Every furnace you light pushes the dark back a little further

FIND THE LUMENS
• Every level hides a Lumen, a mote of white light off the beaten path
• Touch one to restore every heart and your whole lantern, and earn embers the first time
• Collect them to unlock exclusive outfits

TIGHT, FAIR PLATFORMING
• Tap to hop, hold to leap, slide down walls and kick off them
• An Ember Burst mid-air jump that costs lantern light
• Three hearts per run: spikes send you back to safe footing, furnaces restore everything
• Every level is checked to be finishable without a single burst or lost heart

AN ILLUSTRATED STORY
• Six story chapters and an epilogue, drawn in the game's own style, from a dark town to the First Light
• The ending remembers what you did: every Lumen gathered and every sleeper woken

RACE YOUR BEST
• Three stars per level: finish, find every ember, beat the par time
• Your best run comes back as a glowing ghost so you can race yourself

DRESS THE LAMPLIGHTER
• Spend the embers you collect in the ember shop on lanterns, cloaks and trails
• The rarest pieces unlock with stars and Lumens

MADE WITH CARE
• Hand-made levels, soft dynamic lighting and adaptive music that warms up near a lit furnace
• Every sprite, sound and song is generated by the game itself
• Touch controls you can swap for left-handed play and resize, plus keyboard support on desktop
• Haptics, screen shake, timer and ghost can each be turned off
• Plays fully offline; progress backs up with your Android backup

Ember Hollow is free and supported by ads.