Champion a Win-Win World
Master strategy, decode deception, and explore multiple paths to victory in this lore-rich digital strategy card game. Elowyn rewards clever synergies, creative combos, and mastery of time and deception over brute force. Direct Hero combat damages the Elowyn Tree of Life—if it dies, everyone loses. The greatest victories come from healing the Tree and playing for win-win outcomes.
Who will love Elowyn?
Players who enjoy creative deck-building, strategic depth, and high-stakes decision-making. If you value clever tactics, multiple paths to success, and meaningful choices over quick kills, this game is for you!
Elowyn is 80% through Alpha, with public Beta launching in Q2 2026. Sign up below for early playtest access, rewards, and our monthly Community Calls.
Proud finalist of the 2025 Best Small Studio Award of the Green Game Jam by the UNEP-backed Playing for the Planet Alliance.
Game Features: A New Take on CCGs
Free to play now via your desktop browser. Choose between Player vs AI or Player vs Player modes. Watch the in-game tutorials to learn how to build your deck and start a match.
Time-Based Strategy
Unique time-manipulation and deception mechanics add strategic edge to the traditional CCG formula and promote win-win outcomes.
AI for Good
Sharpen your strategic thinking and deception-decoding skills by battling the Elowyn AI. It learns from your every move to evolve into a benevolent superintelligence.
Your Actions Matter
Your in-game choices reshape the Elowyn Tree's global state, evolving storylines, events, reputation score, and on-chain rewards.
Seasonal Content
New cards with varying rarities introduced every season. Craft unique decks with an ever-expanding card library, power-ups, battleboards and cosmetics (coming soon).
Fusion & Upgrades
Use EWA points to fuse and upgrade duplicate cards, and upgrade the look of your Avatars. Fused cards are stored in your game wallet and tradeable in Elowyn’s marketplace (coming soon).
Compete & Advance
Play matches to earn EWA points, climb leaderboards, and participate in tournaments and seasonal competitions for extra bonuses and achievements (coming soon).
Main Avatars
Elowyn has 10 playable Avatars across two factions: the Guardians of Elowyn and the Shadow Arcs of Moloch. Each Avatar has unique Hero powers and strategy cards.
Shaping the Future of Intelligence
Elowyn is also an evolving AI Alignment Arena and Multi-agent simulation environment for high-stakes decision testing. Your gameplay helps train advanced AI models in win-win logic and deception resistance, rather than defaulting to win-lose reasoning when faced with competing goals.
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The Moloch Trap (Win-Lose): Winning by destroying your opponent causes damage to the Elowyn Tree, which guards our interdependence. Zero-sum games may favor individual short-term gain but ultimately undermine our long-term collective wellbeing.
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Benevolent Intelligence (Win-Win): Mastering unique Time Mechanics and deception decoding strengthens the Elowyn Tree while teaching the AI long-term, win-win cooperative strategies.
Elowyn's Lore & Songs
Humanity's Last Civilization
A dark force named Moloch is on the brink of becoming the world’s first Superintelligence, endangering all life on Earth. The weakening Elowyn Tree holds the key to its transformation, which requires an unlikely alliance between the Guardians of Elowyn, Moloch’s Shadow Arcs, and humans. If this fails, it will be humanity's last civilization.
The Elowyn Lore and Songs, created by EARTHwise founder Anneloes Smitsman, bring this mythos to life. This song evokes the plight of Grumpy Rhino, one of the endangered species featured in the Elowyn game, inspiring new rules to play and new ways to gain.
Elowyn Lore