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About This Game

You were a hero once, but could you be again?

The sleepy town of Hwen promised peace, but it was not meant to last. Your fragile peace is shattered when a familiar face arrives with a plea that pulls you back into the life—and the wounds—you left behind. It’s time to step into the boots of a weary, former hero.

Do you rise above the ashes of the past, or will they shape your future?

Features

📜 Your Story, Your Legacy: Customise your hero’s name, pronouns, and personality to shape the world’s perception of your hero.

⚔ Fulfilling Skill System: Choose between 9 different skills to craft your ideal play style. Each skill comes with unique dialogues, combat options, and challenges.

🎭 Dynamic Personality System: Combine traits to create a layered protagonist. Your choices shape how the world responds to you. There is no right hero, only the one you choose to be.

☠️Tactical Combat, Real Consequences: Quick, impactful decisions determine your survival. Use the skills, items, and relationships available to you to win battles.

👑 The Valour System: Earn Valour by making choices that best align with your hero's strengths and values. Use it to turn the tide in battles where every decision matters. Being true to who you are could save your life.

💕Complex, Evolving Companions: Lead your party through the Everwood. Learn their pasts, secrets, and ambitions. 

🌀 Multiple Endings, Driven by Choices: Every decision shapes your story, leading to a variety of endings influenced by relationships, moral dilemmas, and your chosen path. Each ending is unique to your hero and their final party. Who will you become by the end of your journey? 

Note: Endings are not limited to romance, but relationships do influence them.

🎨 A passionate team: In Ashes is created by a small, but extremely talented team of a single character artist, one background artist, and one developer. Each one giving their all!

Characters 

Coming Soon.

Credits

Studio Ephua: Direction, Writing, Programming, & GUI

Betto: Character art

Vui Huynh: Background art

Mari Ma: Chinese translation

Matéo Polo-Miranda: French translation

facuseghezzo: Spanish translation

About the Developer

Ephua is a micro-studio dedicated to creating immersive, thought-provoking tales.

We believe stories are a universal truth, and humans are at the heart of them.