Ember District
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| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
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| Community | Flush · At a Glance — Pressure 5 Cut Diamonds removes Diamonds, heals 2 extra HP per Flush, and reduces Flush final damage by 40%. Prioritize Flow for 4-card Flushes, then add Foundation, Overload and Ignition for damage. Ember Dust upgrades Prioritize Starting Cash and Supply Warm-up for early Sigils and supply XP. Strength's Blessing adds base card damage. Add Wisdom's Blessing when you need slots and have Ember Cores. Press… | — | |
| Community | High Card · At a Glance — Pressure 5 High Card · High Seat does not wait for five cards: play different J/Q/K/A ranks. Prioritize Flow to allow number cards when face cards are missing. Still favor All High Cards whenever possible. Ember Dust upgrades Prioritize Starting Cash and Supply Warm-up for starting gold and supply XP. Strength's Blessing adds +1 base card damage per level. Wisdom's Blessing adds Sigil slots if you have Em… | — | |
| Community | Full House · At a Glance — Pressure 4 Gold Tempo earns 3 gold per Full House. Spend it on your main 2★ Sigils. Prioritize Flow next: refunded attacks allow more Full Hold growth, damage and gold. Ember Dust upgrades Starting Cash gives +3 starting gold per level; Supply Warm-up gives +2 starting supply XP per level. Add Survival Warmth (+6 starting HP per level) if early fights hurt. Add Wisdom's Blessing when you need slots and ha… | — | |
| Community | Four of a Kind · At a Glance — Pressure 4 Guard keeps you alive and converts damage reduction into damage. Prioritize Flow next: three matching ranks plus three unmatched cards replace the four-matching-rank requirement. Ember Dust upgrades Prioritize Starting Cash (+3 starting gold per level) and Supply Warm-up (+2 starting supply XP per level). Mind Armor adds +1% damage reduction per level, also boosting Guard. Add Wisdom's Blessing… | — | |
| Community | Beginner · Two Pair · At a Glance — Pressure 3 Two Pair · At a Glance New at Pressure 3: the first attack each round deals 10% less damage. With at least 3 non-Joker cards, a rank spread below 4 gives the boss a 10% shield. Later, include the indicated red/black card or a Joker. One odd pair and one even pair trigger permanent growth. Two pairs can span ranks and include the needed red/black cards. Use Two Pair · First Strike / Two Pair · F… | — | |
| Community | Scoring · beginner guide | Ember District Use larger hands for high single-hit damage Use larger hands for high single-hit damage. Defeat the boss quickly. Only the highest single hit counts, not total damage. A best hit of 12,000 adds 12,000 points. The first 2 discards and first attack are free. Count discard actions, not cards discarded. Each boss attack costs 6,000 points. This counts attacks, not HP lost. View full-resolution imag… | — | |
| Community | Beginner · Straight · At a Glance — Pressure 2 Straight · At a Glance Clear Pressure 1 to unlock 2× speed, then bring it into Pressure 2! New at Pressure 2: if the first discard each round contains fewer than 3 cards, the boss gains a shield worth 10% max HP (20% total cap). Follow the Weakness hint for +25% final damage. Discard a pair to draw replacements and gain a multiplier. Keep consecutive ranks; clear duplicates while considering th… | — | |
| Community | Beginner · Three of a Kind · At a Glance — Pressure 0 Three of a Kind · At a Glance Pressure 0 adds no extra boss rules. Learn the rhythm of Three of a Kind and discarding. Keep a pair and find the third card. Discards build burst damage and restore an action; later triggers also heal. Keep a pair. Use Three of a Kind · Qi Zhou / Three of a Kind · Low Seat for score according to rank. After 3 discard actions, play Three of a Kind to trigger Empowe… | — | |
| Community | Beginner Pair Build — At a Glance — I Pair Renewal: quick to assemble, easy to replace; healing on Pair attacks gives more room for mistakes. View full-size guide Select one Pair and check the preview. Selecting Two Pair changes the hand type. If a key card is sealed, look for another playable Pair. | — | |
| In-game event | 1.0.11 Update: Bug Fixes and Experience Improvements Hello everyone! Thank you for your support and feedback. Version 1.0.11 brings the following updates: · Fixed some known bugs. · Improved the interface and interaction experience. · Expanded and improved the beginner tutorials. · Improved localization and translations. · Refined various details of the gameplay experience. Thank you for your patience and support. Please keep sharing any issues a… | — | |
| Community | Beginner Flush Build Recommendation — At a Glance Trying a Flush build at Ember Pressure 0? Build score first, reach full crit, then invest in crit damage and Sync scaling. The full route, Pact picks and upgrade costs are in the chart below. View full-size guide High Pressure and Assault are optional, condition-based damage picks, not a required set. Upgrade costs assume you already own one copy and exclude refreshes and discounts. | — | |
| In-game event | Update: Bug Fixes and Five Additional Languages Thank you for playing and sharing your feedback! Fixes and improvements · Fixed an account verification issue that could close the game on startup for some players. · Improved parts of the interface and long-text presentation, and corrected translations of gameplay descriptions. Five additional languages German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian have been added. Together with Si… | — | |
| Steam news | Ember District Open Beta Is Live Ember District Open Beta Is Live Can you conquer Ember Pressure XIII and become the chosen one? Ember District is now available on Steam with a 10% launch discount for 14 days. Buy the game and start playing Hello, everyone! Build your strategy With Ember District, we want to take familiar card hands and turn them into builds and battles worth coming back to. Combine Pacts, Star Sigils and equi… | — |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.