Emberhold: Frozen City

The world has frozen. Around the last generator, a handful of survivors build the city that must outlive the cold — and you make every decision that keeps it alive, or buries it. Emberhold is a survival city-builder made for the phone in your hand: one thumb, portrait mode, sessions that respect your time. No ads, no in-app purchases, no internet required. Just you and the frost. BUILD THE LAST CITY • Raise homes, mines, kitchens and workshops in rings around the generator • Heat is life: every building freezes or thrives by its distance to the core • Push the generator into overdrive when the night gets deadly — and pay for it LEAD LIVING PEOPLE • Workers, engineers and children with hunger, illness and frostbite • Named families remember what you did to them • Loyalty and radicalization: push factions too far and face protests MAKE HARD LAWS • Two paths — Order or Faith — and the first law locks your road forever • Emergency shifts, child labor, moonshine, public funerals: every law costs something that is not money SURVIVE THE STORY • Six scenarios: hold 45 days to the Great Storm, shelter refugee waves, keep greenhouses alive, survive the last coal seam, hold a splitting city • Endless mode with ever-deepening cold waves and a lasting record • Dozens of events where both answers hurt — and the city watches your choice PLAN THE ESCAPE FROM COLD • Research heating, medicine, automatons and scouting • Send scouts into the white silence for survivors and supplies • Read the Engineers' Archive — the in-game book of survival rules Every game is fully deterministic: same choices, same outcome. No luck. Only consequences. The frost does not negotiate.