I recently acquired Embers of Memory, a Throne of Glass game by Kuro! I’m beyond excited to see that one of my favourite series has gotten a card game. A word of warning if you’re still getting through the Sarah J Maas series, this game is set during the events of Kingdom of Ash, so there are spoilers ahead if you haven’t gotten there yet. The game is co-operative, so you and your partner must work together to find the memories needed to strengthen Aelin’s resolve against her inner demons. The most riveting part of this game is the fact that although it is cooperative, there is an added challenge that you’re not allowed to talk to your partner. You communicate through your cards, testing the bond between you and your partner to its limit.
From the moment I opened my package, I was blown away. The packaging the game comes in is gorgeous, and definitely worthy of displaying on a shelf. When you open it up, you have the instructions (which you should DEFINITELY read), and two sets of cards. Oh those cards! The artwork on them is stunning, and if I’m being honest, I wanted to rip them right out of their packaging, but again, those instructions are super important to look through before you do.
The instructions are not only important for rules, but are imperative to know what cards need to be used for each chapter of the game. It takes about 45 minutes to play, if you’re successful in each challenge. I personally recruited my husband to play the game with me, and it took us a little longer (they were not kidding about that bond part being challenging, haha). You have two decks: the captivity deck and memory deck. The captivity deck doesn’t become relevant until after you finish the prologue, while the memory deck has everything you need to play the game.
If I’m being honest we had to play the prologue a couple of times before we could proceed, and a couple of the chapters as well, but overall, it was quite enjoyable. I hesitate to elaborate more than this because I definitely think people should try it out for themselves. I loved getting to a new chapter, because there’s a whole new set of challenges awaiting the players. I highly recommend this game, especially if you enjoy cooperative games where your bonds are forged through silence. It’s a 10/10 for me!
Embers of Memory is available from Amazon, Book Depository, and other good book retailers.
Will you be picking up Embers of Memory? Tell us in the comments below!
The Nerd Daily may obtain commissions for qualifying purchases from the links included in this article.
From the descriptions that I have read so far this sounds a bit like this is a game that you can really only play once unless you keep playing it with different people. Is that accurate 9r do you feel like you could sit down with the same person and play game again?
Hi Heidi,
You can definitely play it more than once with the same person. The game comes with 27 pages of instructions and the memory deck sort of acts like a ‘playing card’ deck, so you won’t have the same cards each time you play as you shuffle the deck. Plus you can also lose, which means you have to repeat!
My only problem is that after the prologue i have difficulty understanding what the rules are… Does anyone have tips on how to understand the rules or is anyone able to explain the rules in lamens terms??