Embershock

Embershock
Developer(s)	Windics Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Windics Entertainment
Release	August 17, 2013
Genre(s)	Action, vehicular combat, combat flight simulator
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Embershock is a free-to-play vehicular combat multiplayer video game developed and published by Windics Entertainment. Announced in 2011, it was first released in December 2012 as an open beta with a worldwide release in February 2013; it had its official release on 13 october 2015. It has a cross-platform format for (PLACEHOLDER FOR GAMES TO FILL). A spinoff game called Embershock Mobile was released in May 2023 for Android, with an iOS version planned to release in the near-future.

Developed as a "flying simulation game", it was previously named Embershock: Flight Warriors, but due to its similarity with Horizon Gaming's Wings of Liberty, it was changed to its present name in 2012. Initially, Windics claimed after the game was announced that it was an April Fools joke before confirming its existence in June that same year.

Embershock won several awards following its release, winning Best Simulation Game at the Gamescom 2013 Awards as well as winning Best Game, Best Developer, Best Technology and Best Sound at the VGA 2014 Awards. In 2019, Embershock was among the most played games on Steam with over 25,000 concurrent players on Steam only. In 2023, the number of concurrent War Thunder players on Steam only was over 75,000 on average and peaked at 97,939 on Feb 12, 2023. These numbers do not include console players or PC players using the Windics.net service.

As of November 1, 2022, Embershock had over 70 million registered players on all platforms combined, out of which 160,000 play concurrently.