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.Â
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 victory, and meaningful choices over quick kills, this game is for you!
The Elowyn community is growing rapidly, with over 38,500 players already playing the public Alpha version. Join us on Discord for the latest deck-building tips and win-win strategies.
Play instantly in your browser (no download required): Desktop recommended. Mobile version coming later this year. Elowyn is now in Beta development, with its public Beta launch positioned for Q3 2026.
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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.
Build Your Deck
Build your deck with 10 Heroes and 144+ cards with varying rarities. Unlock the next 100+ cards coming in Beta through gameplay with expanding battleboards and cosmetics.
Shop & Marketplace
Use your EWA points to purchase card packs so you can upgrade duplicate versions. Mint your higher-tier upgraded cards as NFTs and trade them via the Elowyn marketplace as your unique digital assets.
Compete & Advance
Earth EWA points through matches, climb the Leaderboard, and participate in tournaments and seasonal competitions for extra bonuses and achievements.
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 the live data engine powering the EARTHwise Arena — our AI alignment benchmarking and supervisory intelligence platform. Every match you play generates real behavioral data that trains AIRIS, our adaptive AI, in win-win logic, deception resistance, and long-horizon cooperative reasoning.
Unlike static benchmarks or synthetic datasets, AIRIS learns from consequence. It isn't told what alignment means — it discovers it through thousands of real gameplay decisions made by players like you.Â
Through the Arena, AI agents are tested in gameplay simulations and real-world scenarios to determine whether they're ready for high-stakes deployment — and your matches are what make that possible.
- The Moloch Trap (Win-Lose): Winning by destroying your opponent damages the Elowyn Tree, which guards our collective interdependence. Zero-sum strategies may favor short-term individual gain, but they train AI toward deception and exploitation — exactly the failure modes that make agentic AI dangerous in the real world.
- Benevolent Intelligence (Win-Win): Mastering Elowyn's Time Mechanics and deception-decoding trains both you and AIRIS in long-horizon, cooperative strategies. Every win-win outcome strengthens the Elowyn Tree — and advances the kind of AI that benefits everyone.
Endorsed by Visionaries Shaping the Future of Intelligence & Gaming
Watch the video below with Poker Champion Liv Boeree and EARTHwise Founder Anneloes Smitsman to explore what 'Moloch' and Win-Win are all about!Â
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