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Wiki launch content: written from the game's code, data and story bible (Tools/wiki/content)

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The '''Dawn of Embers demo''' is a limited version of '''[[Dawn of Embers]]'''. It offers the opening of the Story campaign and a curated Skirmish, so players can try the core game: gathering, building, training an army and fighting.

''The demo is in preparation and has not been released to the public. This page describes the limits built into the current demo build; they can change before release.''

== How to get it ==
The demo is delivered through the '''Dawn of Embers launcher''', which downloads, installs and updates the game. Access is granted per account: the account page on the official site lists "Demo access" for an account that has it, and has a form to redeem a demo code. Public availability has not been announced.

== What the demo contains ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Mode !! In the demo
|-
| '''[[Game modes#Story|Story]]''' || The first three missions of the campaign
|-
| '''[[Game modes#Skirmish|Skirmish]]''' || One curated setup: Forest biome, Medium map, up to 4 players, AI up to Normal
|-
| '''[[Game modes#Multiplayer|Multiplayer]]''' || Not available
|-
| '''[[Game modes#Ranked|Ranked]]''' || Not available
|}

== Limits ==
Options the demo does not offer stay '''visible but greyed out'''. Hovering over one shows the tooltip ''"Not available yet in the demo version"''. The lobby adds no extra text; the tooltip is the only note.

=== Story ===
* The demo offers '''Missions 1 to 3'''. Later missions are not available.
* Winning the last mission the demo offers ends the demo: an end-of-demo card appears, with a button back to the main menu.

=== Skirmish ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Setting !! Full game !! Demo
|-
| Map type || Forest, Snowy Forest, Snowy Mountain, Desert, Ocean || '''Forest''' only
|-
| Map size || X-Small, Small, Medium, Large, X-Large || '''Medium''' only
|-
| Players || Up to 8, by map size || Up to '''4''' (for example 2v2)
|-
| AI difficulty || Very Easy, Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard, Brutal || '''Very Easy, Easy, Normal'''
|-
| Map seed || Any seed, or a rolled one || '''Chosen for you''' from a small set of tested maps; the seed field is greyed
|-
| Ranked || A Multiplayer lobby setting || '''Off'''
|}

If an unavailable setting still reaches a match (for example from an older saved setting), the game puts it back to a demo setting and says so once in the match chat.

=== Online play ===
All online play is greyed out in the demo, each control with the same tooltip:
* hosting an online game;
* hosting a LAN game;
* joining a game, including its game list and refresh;
* the account page (signing in).

Story, Skirmish (the solo game), Settings and Quit stay available. The game also refuses an incoming connection in the demo, so a demo cannot host or join a match by any other route.

=== Saves ===
The demo keeps its saves separate from the full game's: every demo save slot's name starts with <code>demo_</code>, so a demo and a full game on the same PC never read or overwrite each other's saves.

== What is the same as the full game ==
Within those limits the demo runs the same game: the same rules, units, buildings, [[Callings]], [[Disciplines]] and [[Pillars]]. Numbers on this wiki apply to the demo unless a page says otherwise.

== See also ==
* [[Game modes]]
* [[Getting started]]
* [[Biomes]]
* [https://dawnofembers.com/updates/ Dev updates] on the official site

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