烬堡 EMBERHOLD

Emberhold (烬堡) is a third-person souls-like set in a ruined keep. You wake in the Nameless Cell, fight your way through the Pillar Hall, the Old Armoury and the Long Stair, and pass through the fog gate to face the keep's warden, the Ashen Crown.

Every enemy drops ash. Spend it at a lamp to level up, or die and leave it where you fell: walk back to the spot to pick it up again. Lamps also refill your ember flasks, and they bring the enemies back.

The game's text is in Chinese.

How it's made

Claude Fable 5.2 built it from a prompt asking for an Elden Ring-like souls game in a single HTML file, with no human models: the knight, the husks, the spear sentinels, the armoured brutes and the boss are all put together from geometric shapes and animated in code. The prompt pointed at SUBLEVEL 07 as the reference for the 3D look. Follow-ups during the session added a real dodge roll, a two-handed sword grip with reworked animations, and a hidden cheat. Three.js loads from a CDN; everything else is in one 182 KB HTML file.

Credits

Made by lingki1 with Claude Fable 5.2.

Objective

Fight from the Nameless Cell to the fog gate, then defeat the Warden, the Ashen Crown. The level ends with your time, deaths and kills.

Enemies

Enemy	Health	Ash	Notes
Husk (空壳兵)	64	60	Hunched swordsman, staggers easily
Spear sentinel (矛卫)	100	120	Raises a guard and circles you
Armoured brute (重甲卫)	270	500	Hard to stagger; keeps swinging through your hits
The Ashen Crown (灰冕)	1150	3000	Boss. At half health it roars and enters a second phase

Your character

• 100 health, 100 stamina. Every attack and roll costs stamina.
• Light attacks chain three hits (22, 23, then 33 damage; 15/15/20 stamina). The heavy attack hits for 48 and costs 30.
• A roll costs 20 stamina.
• 3 ember flasks to start. Each restores 62 health over about half a second, and taking a hit cuts the rest off, so drink out of reach. A flask shard adds one more use.

Lamps and levelling

Rest at a lamp to refill your flasks and spend ash on one of three stats:

Stat	Each level
1 Vigour (体魄)	+18 max health
2 Endurance (耐力)	+12 max stamina
3 Strength (力量)	+9% damage

A level costs 150 + 90 × the levels you already have.

Death

"余烬熄灭" (the ember goes out): you return to the last lamp and your ash stays where you died. Reach it before dying again to take it back.

Tips

• Watch the stamina bar. A three-hit chain plus a roll leaves you almost empty.
• Lock on (Q) to the spear sentinels: they strafe and are easy to lose.
• Break the brutes' poise with heavy attacks, then back off; they don't flinch from a single light hit.
• Save a flask or two for the boss's second phase.
• If the frame rate drops, press G to step the graphics down from 极致 (ultra) to 高 (high) or 流畅 (smooth).

Controls

Input	Action
W A S D	Move
Mouse	Camera (click the screen to capture the mouse)
Left mouse	Light attack (3-hit chain)
Right mouse	Heavy attack
Space	Roll
Shift	Run
Q	Lock on
R	Drink an ember flask
E	Interact: lamps, items, the fog gate
G	Graphics quality
V	Hit shake: off / light / strong
M	Mute
Esc	Pause