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The species on the cards are real. So is the impact.
Elowyn is a strategy card game that gives back to Nature. The game includes twenty-two playable endangered species cards, each with their own abilities and story. We donate 100% of net proceeds from your Rainforest Pack to projects that help our planet.
475K
Players reached in the Green Game Jam 2026
100%
Net proceeds donated
22
Endangered species in play
The Rainforest Pack
Five cards. Five real species. Five real habitats.
Created for the Green Game Jam 2026 and kept in the Shop to raise support for Nature. Five Epic cards, playable in any deck.
100%Of net proceeds donated
Learn more about the 5 Species from the Rainforest Pack
Each of these species provides essential ecosystem services for rainforests, and two of them, Kalunga and Dreamy Pango, are critically endangered.
Capybara
Wise Capy
Peacekeeper of the Wetlands
- Balances vegetation growth
- Supports keystone predators
- Signals harmony and peace
Jaguar
Balam
Forest Guardian
- Prevents overgrazing by herbivores
- Holds the balance as apex predator
- Helps the forest regenerate
Orchid bee
Magic Bumble
Weaver of the life network
- Pollinates flowers and trees
- Connects forests through long flights
- Enhances biodiversity
African forest elephant
Kalunga
Climate Protector
- Disperses forest seeds
- Helps grow carbon-storing trees
- Strengthens rainforest resilience
Pangolin
Dreamy Pango
Forest Protector
- Balances ant and termite populations
- Aerates the soil through burrowing
- Supports healthy forest ecosystems
The collection
Meet more Elowyn species
Elowyn currently features 22 real species, 16 of them at risk of extinction, including 6 that are critically endangered. All fourteen below are among them and every one is playable today.
Every species card carries a message from Nature. From mid-Beta you will be able to ask the Elo agent about any of them in-game.
Play for Nature
How your gameplay creates positive impact
Play and give
Join Elowyn to get started, then buy the $13 Rainforest Pack in the in-game Shop. All net proceeds currently go to Treegens for tree planting. We rotate the project we support, with input from our community.
Heal Elo and climb the Leaderboard
Play the cards from your Rainforest Pack to heal Elo, the Elowyn Tree. Healing Elo boosts your Reputation and EWA Points, which move you up the Leaderboard to unlock monthly seasonal rewards. Learn about the endangered animals on these Epic cards and why we need to protect them.
Apply win-win in real life
Play Elowyn regularly to train your mind in win-win logic and regeneration. Explore how you can apply these strategies in your own life to create value for all and give back to our planet. Act as a guardian for Nature, and use your game intuition to dispel lies and deception.
Creating real-world impact
Active Play4Good missions
How your gameplay creates value outside the game, in real life.
Mission one
EARTHwise AI Arena
Our live arena, where the alignment of AI agents is tested and proven. Agents come to understand interdependence the way living systems do, through the experience of consequence rather than instruction.
Simulations place an agent inside the live Elowyn game, where it meets the results of its own decisions in real time, under competitive pressure. An agent that reasons beautifully in a written scenario but damages the shared Tree in play reveals the gap that matters most: the distance between what it says it understands and how it behaves when something is at stake.
Every match you play helps tune AI to win-win logic.
Mission two
The Treegens
During the Green Game Jam we donated all net proceeds from the Rainforest Pack to the Rainforest Alliance. Since the Jam closed, that money goes to the Treegens.
Treegens is the life work of Jimi Cohen, who holds the Guinness World Record for the most trees planted in twenty-four hours. He is working with governments, organisations and communities on the GROWalition, in which twelve countries have already committed to plant one billion trees in a single day. And that is just the beginning.
Buying the Rainforest Pack makes you a part of this movement.
Schools, universities and movements
A free transformation game to discover the wisdom of living systems
Elowyn can be used as a free and accessible tool for education and movement building, playable from any browser, wherever you are. Systems thinking is not bolted on as a lesson, it is built into the mechanics: players meet the principle of interdependence the moment they harm or heal the Elowyn Tree. Most games are built on zero-sum. Elowyn rewards win-win strategies, where playing smart means keeping the world we share alive while creating benefit for people and planet.
Schools and universities
A ready lesson in interdependence, feedback loops and long-horizon reasoning, played rather than lectured. No licence or installation required, and safe for youth.
Regeneration movements
A simulation game for building regenerative movements, and for seeing how we truly behave and reason under zero-sum pressure. Run Tournaments at gatherings, let the endangered species cards open the conversation, and tell us about the project you want Elowyn to support.
Leadership training
Test how your team decides, and how it justifies its wins under pressure. Play together to build the mindset for a win-win future, and find the hidden clue that aligns intelligence with life.
The principles guiding Elowyn are set out in the EARTHwise Constitution for a Planetary Civilization, our framework for becoming game-changers for a thrivable world.
Our EARTHwise Vision
Becoming a Planetary Civilisation
Imagine yourself walking into the future world of a planetary civilization. The future of a wiser, more mature humanity. You are one of its ancestors. A world where children are happy and thriving, and our elders are cared for and honoured. Our cultures are rooted in compassion. We act as responsible future ancestors in partnership with our Earth, and with care for the evolutionary process of life.
Our cities, villages, and communities are alive with the intelligence and wisdom of nature, providing thriving homes for all. We have learned how to honour and work with the life-giving capacities of our Earth, while caring for the multiple dimensions of life we share.
Our societies have become diverse and fertile gardens that serve as ecological niches of abundance, overflowing with art, song, music, dance and joy. The Earth is thriving with healthy air, drinkable rivers, oceans that teem with life, fertile living soil, and compassionate food for all.
In this world, each person is living the exquisite genius of their personal and collective potentials, as we have become the future humans of a planetary civilization, as co-creators of thrivable worlds and futures in partnership with life. This is a world you helped to form as its future ancestor, born from the future potentials that we together brought to life.
Become an Elowyn Ambassador
Add your voice to ours
Elowyn is a game where playing well and doing good are the same move. If that is a story your audience should hear, we would like you to be the one who tells it.
Kalunga, the African forest elephant, one of the twenty-two.
Stream it
Play Elowyn live or share curated gameplay. Grow an audience with content that cares for the planet, and raise funds for rainforest protection while you do it.
Create for it
Make and share content about the species, the lore or the strategy. Tag us and we will amplify it to our own community.
Amplify it
Like, share and comment on our Play4Good posts. It costs nothing and it is the fastest way to widen the campaign’s reach.
Bring people in
Invite your friends and community to play. Elowyn is free to play, and with the friend features coming in Beta you will be able to have even more fun together.
Come to our Discord for Elowyn Tournaments, Trivia and AMA events, and streamer coordination. We love helping you create inspiring Elowyn content for your community. Our songs and creator videos are live on YouTube and X.
The Playing for the Planet Alliance
Creating positive impact with other studios
EARTHwise is a member of the UNEP-backed Playing for the Planet Alliance, which brings leading game studios together to cut their environmental impact and to move their players to act.
The Green Game Jam is the Alliance’s annual initiative. More than seventy games take part, Tetris and Angry Birds among them, in a friendly competition on behalf of the planet. EARTHwise was named a Best Small Studio Finalist in 2025.
This year’s campaign raised funds and support for rainforests, endangered species and indigenous communities, and reached 475,000 players worldwide.
In collaboration with our partners and the EARTHwise Alliance.
Stay in touch
Join the Play4Good events
Live Tournaments, streaming parties, Trivia and AMA events, plus first word on the next campaign and how to take part.
Play for the planet
Thank you for standing with Nature
Rainforests cover about 6% of the land on our planet and are home to more than half of all known plant, insect and other animal species. Let’s play together to keep this alive and thriving for generations to come.
