Hoplite
Melee bruiser
A spear-and-shield soldier of the phalanx. Valor, discipline, and the wall that does not break.
The Game
A real, mythic Greece — and a woman called Myrra
Embers of Olympus is a 3D action RPG in the spirit of Diablo, presented with the over-the-shoulder feel of World of Warcraft. The first release is one polished act, single-player, start to finish — a real game, not a demo.
The setting & the story
You begin on the Rarian Plain near Eleusis — Myrra's home ground. The threat starts human-scale: a blight, a failed harvest, a rite that will not take. Only slowly does a divine cause reveal itself beneath the everyday crisis. That's the rule the whole game follows: the quest is always a real human problem; the myth explains why it's going wrong.
Myrra never speaks. Everything about her is told through what others say to her. Her class is your choice; her name and origin are fixed — set up for a later reveal.
The three classes
The classic trinity, all cleanly Greek — and built to feel genuinely distinct.
Archer
Ranged / kiter
An Artemis-flavoured hunter — precision, mobility, and the favour of the wild.
Oracle
Caster
Elemental and divine magic — storm, fire and prophecy, in the shadow of Zeus and Apollo.
Combat that a small team can ship well
Tab-target, WoW-style: select a target, abilities resolve on it, and a global cooldown paces a rotation of cooldown-gated skills. It's chosen deliberately — it puts the effort into class identity and content instead of the hit-detection problems that make action combat so hard to finish alone. Each class earns points into its own skill tree, Diablo 2-style, where build choices matter.
The Diablo half: loot
The dopamine engine of the genre. Rarity tiers (normal, magic, rare), random affixes rolled on every drop, and a handful of uniques and sets to chase. Higher difficulty tiers — Mortal, Heroic, Divine — feed better loot, the cheapest replay multiplier there is.
The gods, and the things beneath
In the first act the twelve gods are world flavour — temples, story, the Mysteries — with one light mechanical touch: shrines that grant a temporary blessing. The act ends at a two-phase boss with a Greek name, the crisis's true face. The deeper system of earned divine favour waits for later acts.
The first release, at a glance
ScopeOne polished act, single-player
ViewWoW-style 3D, over-the-shoulder
CombatTab-target rotation
ClassesHoplite · Archer · Oracle
LootFull ARPG: tiers, affixes, uniques
Length1–2 hours, replayable
EngineUnity
WorldEleusis & the Rarian Plain