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The mountain has opened, and the descent has begun.

EMBERDEEP 2: Evil Lurks Below is now available to play in Alpha. It is free and runs directly in your browser:

https://treyz81.itch.io/emberdeep-2

An earthquake has uncovered a stairwell that appears on no village map. Beneath it waits a sprawling underground dominion filled with forgotten ruins, flooded caverns, medieval sewers, occult temples, hidden passages, and an army that does not breathe.

Choose from four distinct classes, recruit a companion or descend alone, and shape each run through class-specific techniques and build-changing upgrades. Explore procedurally generated depths containing handcrafted chambers, secret rooms, environmental puzzles, dangerous bargains, named champions, and multi-phase boss encounters.

The main story spans 25 depths, but the dungeon continues far beyond it. Those who survive can enter the Underwake and descend toward Depth 125, facing progressively stronger enemies and another boss every five levels.

The Alpha currently includes:

• Four playable classes with unique combat styles
• Eight companion choices, including a human combat partner
• 25 story depths and an extended descent to Depth 125
• Multi-phase bosses every five depths
• Procedural maps mixed with handcrafted rooms
• Secret passages, puzzles, traps, and hidden merchants
• Cursed altars, occult contracts, combat trials, and other optional risks
• Smarter enemies and champions with distinctive powers
• Interactive environments involving fire, water, oil, traps, and destructible objects
• Twenty recoverable parchment scraps
• Achievements, score tracking, run recaps, and the Hall of the Fallen
• Four difficulty settings
• Keyboard, mouse, and mobile touch controls
• An adaptive original soundtrack

This is still an Alpha release. Balance, performance, audio, content, and visual polish will continue to improve. Bugs may also be waiting in places even the dungeon map cannot reveal.

If you play, please leave a comment with the class you chose, the build you created, how deep you reached, and what finally ended your run. Bug reports and feedback are especially valuable during this stage.

EMBERDEEP: Legacy of the Molten King is also completely free for anyone who wants to experience the first descent.

Good luck down there. You’re going to need it.

Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying it. Also, great suggestion!

Thank you, I really appreciate it.

I’m facing a similar issue with several published games. It seems strange that legitimate projects can remain unindexed without any explanation, especially when that potentially costs both creators and itch.io sales.

I have read the Getting Indexed documentation. All three projects are published, publicly accessible, and have complete store pages, so I believe they meet the stated requirements for indexing. However, none of them appear in Search or Browse.

The games can be played or purchased directly from their pages:

https://treyz81.itch.io/beneath-the-clover

https://treyz81.itch.io/emberdeep

https://treyz81.itch.io/call-of-faedaria-alpha-v1

Is there anything visible on these pages that might be preventing them from being indexed?

I have also contacted itch.io support regarding this issue. My support ticket ID is 385122.

Any help identifying something I may have overlooked would be appreciated.

Greetings!

Beneath the Clover: Hidden Kingdoms is a real-time ant colony simulation inspired by classic games such as SimAnt. It combines autonomous colony management, direct ant control, territorial warfare, action combat, RPG progression, and exploration above and below the garden.

Game page: https://treyz81.itch.io/beneath-the-clover

You are one ant. The colony is your body.

Directly control a black ant as you forage, dig tunnels, tend brood, collect aphids, lay pheromone trails, develop your abilities, and lead your nestmates against a rival red colony.

You are not an invisible ruler looking down from above. You live inside the colony as one of its ants. If your body is destroyed, the nest can provide another while preserving your experience and equipment.

The red colony is building at the same time. Its workers forage, its queen produces brood, and its soldiers defend their territory. Red warbands can attack your queen, steal food, or carry eggs out of your nursery.

The rest of the garden is just as dangerous.

🐜 Build a living colony Workers forage, dig, haul resources, and care for brood independently. You can also disable automatic digging and shape every tunnel yourself.

🌿 Explore four battlefields Fight across the Clover Patch, White Clover, Mossy Verge, and Long Grass. Each map has its own terrain, vegetation, obstacles, and atmosphere.

⚔ Fight and develop your ant Rise through 25 levels while improving health, damage, armor, speed, stamina, critical strikes, healing, and carrying capacity. Combat damage varies slightly with every hit.

💎 Discover rare equipment Defeated enemies can leave common, rare, epic, or legendary spoils. Equipment can improve your statistics or grant abilities such as acid attacks, reflected damage, charged trap-jaw strikes, healing effects, and an emergency molt.

🕷 Survive a hostile garden Face spiders, beetles, grasshoppers, caterpillars, the Roach Lord, severe weather, flooding, lawnmowers, and human footsteps. Not every threat can be defeated by one ant.

🔥 Find the World Heart Dig beyond the fungus chambers to discover a hidden crystal buried in the deepest part of the nest. Recovering it strengthens the entire colony for the rest of the map.

🌱 Five game modes

• Quick Game: Choose a map, build your colony, and destroy the red queen.
• Full Campaign: Conquer the property tile by tile as you advance from the clover toward the porch and kitchen.
• Siege: Prepare your defenses before recurring red warbands begin their assault.
• Drought: Secure enough survival plans through harvesting, stockpiling, colony growth, or war.
• Survive: Endure eight full days against escalating raids and garden threats.

🏆 Current features

• Five game modes
• Four selectable maps
• Four difficulty settings
• Autonomous black and red colonies
• Pheromone-based colony commands
• Movable food, brood, aphids, and pebbles
• Branching colony evolution
• RPG levels and equipment
• Dynamic weather and underground flooding
• Bosses, raids, wildlife, and human hazards
• Saving, high scores, and detailed run history
• Keyboard, mouse, and mobile touch controls
• Portrait and landscape mobile layouts

Beneath the Clover: Hidden Kingdoms is currently free to play in your browser while development continues. It is fully playable, but the Full Campaign and several planned features are still being expanded and refined. Once development is complete, the game will become a paid release.

If you enjoy ant colony simulations, autonomous strategy games, RPG progression, or watching two tiny kingdoms wage a surprisingly serious war, I hope you will give it a try.

Bug reports, balance feedback, and ideas are very welcome. I would especially love to hear which map and mode you played, how long your colony survived, and what finally brought it down.

Thank you for checking it out.

The red colony is already digging. Wake yours.

Glad you enjoy it!

Hello all!

EMBERDEEP: Legacy of the Molten King is a challenging pixel-art dungeon crawler focused on fast-paced combat, exploration, and the thrill of descending into an ancient ruin filled with danger and secrets.

Game page: https://treyz81.itch.io/emberdeep

The fire beneath the ruins cannot be extinguished. But it can be ended.

Five centuries ago, King Vharos buried an unquenchable flame beneath the world and took his place upon the throne to guard it. Fifteen forgotten depths stand between you and the Emberheart. History ends there. The dungeon does not.

EMBERDEEP: Legacy of the Molten King is a fast, punishing dungeon crawl where every descent brings new dangers, discoveries, and forgotten secrets.

Choose your path:

⚔ Four playable classes Play as a Knight, Ranger, Rogue, or Mage. Each class offers a unique combat style, with the option to recruit a loyal companion or descend alone.

🕯 Fifteen story depths Battle through procedurally generated ruins filled with locked vaults, hidden keys, wandering merchants, powerful champions, and legendary bosses guarding the deepest levels.

📜 Discover Ilsa’s Journal Find twelve scattered pages from the last adventurer who entered the depths. Read them in order. The final entry contains a warning.

🔥 The Abyss awaits Defeat the Molten King and unlock an endless gauntlet that stretches to Depth 100. Cursed floors, ember surges, and unnatural darkness will reshape every run. Something terrible waits at the bottom...

🏆 Features

• 31 achievements
• Hall of the Fallen leaderboard
• Four difficulty levels from Easy to Impossible
• Full keyboard, mouse, and mobile touch support
• Original soundtrack

A free browser demo is available on the itch.io page. Explore the first five depths and face the Ember Warden before deciding whether you are ready to descend further.

If you enjoy classic dungeon crawlers, challenging combat, retro pixel-art worlds, and exploring places that were never meant to be found, I hope you’ll give EMBERDEEP: Legacy of the Molten King a try.

Thank you for checking it out, and good luck reaching the bottom.