Cradle of Ash — Official Trailer
Sixty-three seconds in Ashbrook. A molotov in a suburban street, and what the fire costs. This is the lead asset.
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Fact sheet
Everything below matches the Steam store listing. If something here contradicts the store page, the store page is right and we would like to know.
- Title
- Cradle of Ash
- Developer
- Ender Knight
- Publisher
- M.O.T.I.S.
- Release
- October 2026
- Platform
- PC — Steam (Windows)
- Players
- 1–4 player online co-op, or solo
- Genre
- Story-driven survival horror, first person
- Campaign
- Six acts, 8–10 hours, one ending
- Engine
- Unity 6
- Languages
- English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
- Content
- Mature. Intense violence, gore and body horror. Ratings pending.
- Steam App ID
- 5230310
- Store page
- store.steampowered.com/app/5230310
- Website
- www.cradleofash.com
- YouTube
- @CradleOfAshGame
- Press contact
- press@cradleofash.com
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Descriptions
Three lengths, written to be pasted as they are. Nothing here spoils the campaign past the first act.
One line
Burn the dead or they come back. A 1-4 player co-op survival horror game.
Short · about 60 words
Cradle of Ash is a first-person survival horror game for one to four players. The town of Ashbrook is sealed behind a quarantine nobody believes, and everything you put down gets back up worse unless the body burns. Ration the fuel, keep the noise down, and do not leave a corpse whole. Coming to Steam in October 2026.
Full · about 200 words
Cradle of Ash is a story-driven first-person survival horror game for one to four players, or for one player alone. You wake in a wrecked coach at the edge of Ashbrook, a company town sealed off behind a chemical-spill quarantine that nobody believes.
Every resident carries something that should never have had a body. Guns put them down. Only fire ends them: anything you drop gets back up in a minute or two, faster and angrier, unless what is left of it burns. Bottles are common. Rags are not. A half-burned body comes back as something that no longer fears fire.
They do not kill you, either. They grab you and drag you toward whatever is making the noise, and a teammate who comes for you can beat the hold loose. Fire does not check whose coat it is burning. A director reads your noise, your light and your fuel, and spends its budget where you are going rather than where you have been.
Six acts, eight to ten hours, one ending, and a truth under the maternity ward at Ashbrook Memorial that goes back a great deal further than the company.
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Features
The six things worth a bullet point.
- The fire economy. Anything you down gets back up unless the body is burned. Fuel is the real currency, and a half-burned body is worse than an unburned one.
- They take you, they do not kill you. Get caught and you are grabbed and dragged toward the noise. Fight the hold and shout; someone coming for you can break it.
- Fire does not know you. A burning pool takes whatever stands in it and spreads along what you spilled. The most dangerous thing in Ashbrook is usually the one you lit.
- Heard before seen. Every enemy is positional in headphones. Direction and distance are the read of every room, and whatever is singing in the dark sings slower the nearer it gets.
- A director, not a script. No fixed jump-scare loops. It reads your noise, your light, your fuel and how long since you last saw something, and spends where you are going.
- Six acts, one way out. An 8–10 hour campaign through the suburbs, the hospital, the flooded lower town, the old village and the abbey on the ridge. Sixty documents, twenty tapes, one ending.
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Trailers
All footage is pre-alpha and should be captioned as such. Direct 1080p files are linked so you do not have to rip from YouTube.
Cradle of Ash — Extended Trailer
The long version: the street, the ward, the tunnels and the ridge, and what the fire costs in each of them.
The Chapel
The abbey on the ridge, the seal under it, and the choir that arrives before anything else does.
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Screenshots
Eight stills, 1920×1080 JPG. Click any one for the full-resolution file, or take the whole set plus the logo and key art in one 3.3 MB zip. Pre-alpha; everything is subject to change.
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Logo and key art
The mark is a wheel with a seal at its centre. It is an SVG, so it scales to anything. Please do not recolour it, rotate it, or set it on a ground that drops the contrast below legible.
On #0A0806
On #E6DDD0
- Logo mark, vector SVG
- Key art, 1200×630 JPG
- Trailer poster frame, 1920×1080 JPG
- Everything above, plus all eight screenshots ZIP · 3.3 MB
Brand colours: ember #FF7A1A, deep ember #B8410A, ash #E6DDD0, ground #0A0806. Display type is Cormorant Garamond; the stencil face is Special Elite.
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Video policy
The short version: make whatever you want, keep whatever you earn, and you do not need to ask first.
Blanket permission
- You may record, stream and publish video of Cradle of Ash, including the full campaign and the ending, on any platform.
- You may monetise that video — ads, sponsorships, memberships, subscriptions, tips. We will never issue a content claim or a takedown against a video of this game.
- This covers preview and review builds as well as the released game, unless an embargo was agreed with you in writing for a specific build.
- You may use the trailers, screenshots, logo and key art on this page in articles, thumbnails and videos about the game.
- Please caption pre-release footage as pre-alpha, and please do not present the game as finished before it is.
- The only things we ask: do not resell the assets, do not use them to imply we endorse an unrelated product, and do not alter the logo.
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The developer
Boilerplate for the bottom of an article, ready to paste.
About · about 50 words
Cradle of Ash is made by Ender Knight, a solo developer, and published under M.O.T.I.S. It is a first-person survival horror game for one to four players, built in Unity 6, and it is coming to Steam in October 2026.
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Contact
Press enquiries, review keys, interview requests, and anything this page does not answer.
Review keys are available on request ahead of launch. Tell us the outlet or channel and roughly when you would want to cover it, and we will sort it out.