Super visually pleasing, super hard to follow

it's worth noting that most of my experience with Embers Rekindled is in the context of the Roguelike Adventures and Dungeons modpack. this is basically that modpack's token tech-that-isn't-tech mod, so to speak. it blends well with exploration, offering structures and enemies that integrate well into the world with organic encounters that pique the user's interest.

Embers Rekindled (and, I suppose, Embers) has a lore-heavy guidebook that gives a lot of hints as to how to progress, but therein lies the problem: it more or less offers only hints. as someone already not good with tech, this made it hard to follow. the realizations I would make after toying with positioning things and placing receptors and figuring things out were--in my case--not enough to outweigh the confusion.

all-in-all, it does a really good job at being tech that isn't tech. but it's still tech, and it's very complicated tech at that.