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A cute tower defense game launched last week that has you use tetromino blocks in order to DIY a tower defense maze. Emberward, the debut title from indie studio Refic Games, is a creative little game that makes you use your head to puzzle out ideal layouts for your maze before using a suite of towers you’ve chosen yourself to defend the bonfire at its center. There’s a demo out now that lets you play through the first area with a slightly limited set of abilities.
It’s a pretty neat setup. Each run through you’re given a starting set of towers and a deck of blocks, but from there you get new towers and blocks for your deck from winning a few waves of attackers per level. You also get experience to build out your chosen character’s talent tree, and you find relics along t…