Emberhaven - First Impression: My Experience

https://reddit.com/link/1v49mc0/video/h68m2tfzcyeh1/player

I'm one of the developers working on Emberhaven. Just finished a 4-day playtest and wanted to share my honest first impressions.I wandered into the Corrupted Lands and immediately regretted it. The mutants there don't just attack you — they twist the local wildlife into hostile versions and corrupt the soil itself. My resource yield tanked hard, and my whole early-game survival plan started falling apart. I decided it was time to clear a wave. Brute force didn't work. My day-1 strategy got me nowhere, so I rebuilt my approach around a bow I'd crafted — and wow, did it pay off. Fire arrows absolutely shred corrupted bears, bats, and blight insects. Night and day difference. My only regret: I was too resource-starved to try building terrain advantages into the fight. There's clearly a whole layer where you shape the battlefield itself to boost your combat and survival odds. Next run, I'm testing that Video is raw gameplay I recorded myself during development.