Cindervale Idle

A dark-fantasy idle/incremental RPG.

Status: In active development Studio: SmolderStudios Play: https://smolderstudios.github.io/cindervale/

Playing the game

Cindervale Idle is distributed as a packaged Electron application. See our discord for updates and news. Also check out our website

The rename

The game was called Embervale Idle until v0.9.14, when an unrelated Embervale — also an idle RPG — turned up on Steam. The rename went all the way down: repo, Pages URL, game filename, localStorage keys, Electron userData folder, and installer appId.

That was a deliberate save wipe, taken while the only players were beta testers.

Anyone still running an Embervale-era build must reinstall. GitHub does not redirect Pages when a repository is renamed, so smolderstudios.github.io/embervale/ now returns 404. Old wrappers poll that URL on launch, fail silently, and fall back to their cached copy forever — they have no way to discover the new address.

These identifiers are now frozen. Changing any of them again either wipes saves or strands installed copies:

• https://smolderstudios.github.io/cindervale/ — the update endpoint every wrapper polls
• cindervale_save_v1, cindervale_device_id — localStorage keys holding every save
• app.setName('cindervale-idle') — decides %APPDATA%/cindervale-idle
• appId: com.smolderstudios.cindervaleidle — change it and NSIS installs a second app rather than upgrading in place

License

All rights reserved. See LICENSE.