Free to play via your desktop browser. No download, no wallet setup needed. Elowyn is currently in Beta development.
Where clever strategy outwits brute force
Elowyn: Quest of Time is a next-generation collectible card game that rewards mastery of time and deception over brute force. Direct Hero combat damages Elo, the Elowyn Tree of Life. If she falls, nobody wins. The greatest victories come from outsmarting your opponent while keeping the world alive.
69K+
Players since early 2026
330K+
Matches played
10
Heroes live
The mechanic that changes everything
One Tree. Two players. One shared fate.
Most card games reward you for reducing your opponent to zero. Elowyn asks you to think and act differently. Heal Elo, unlock the greatest bonuses, and know the joy of winning without having to harm each other.
Attacks harm the Tree
Direct Hero combat is zero-sum play, and it damages Elo. If Elo falls, everyone loses and the match ends in a draw, however far ahead you were.
Win by playing on Time
The Moloch Clock is a win condition of its own. Guardians reverse it to zero, Shadow Arcs drive it to twelve. A victory on Time creates a win-win.
Heal Elo, earn Bonus Points
Elowyn rewards synergy and time-based play with Reputation and Bonus Points. Heal Elo and you still earn, even when you lose or the match ends in a draw.
The trailer
Will this be humanity’s last civilisation?
Journey into the heart of Elowyn to stop the rise of Moloch.
A new take on CCGs and TCGs
Six things Elowyn does differently from conventional card battle games
Turn-based strategy in the tradition of the classics, rebuilt around time control, deception and a world you share with your opponent.
NeutralThe Clock starts at six
The Moloch Clock
Twelve segments, starting at six. Push it to twelve and the Shadow Arcs win. Reverse it to zero and the Guardians win. Time is a win condition in itself.
Deception you can play
Shadow Arcs can initiate deception, be truthful, or lie. Guardians can counter it to gain one hour or fail and lose it.
Win-win competition
No other card game puts a living third party between the players. Elo binds your fates together in a world of interdependence, where domination becomes the losing strategy.
Reputation Points
Earned for winning through Time rather than eliminating your opponent, and for healing the Tree. Non-tradeable, and they reset each season.
Five Archetypes
Ten unique Avatars built on the five Future Archetypes: five Guardians and their Shadow Arc counterparts. Each Avatar brings its own abilities, codes, and playstyle to the decks you build from minions and spells with deception, time manipulation, and healing rules.
Play AI for Good
A new mode: Player versus AI, alongside PvP unranked and competitive. The AI learns win-win the way you do, by playing and experiencing the consequences.
The collection
149 cards live today. 244 at public Beta.
Every illustration is original artwork made for Elowyn, set in a frame that carries the mark of its faction. Build across rarities, fuse duplicates into higher tiers, and own your upgraded cards as digital assets if you want to.
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Great Deer
Guardians
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Drowsy Dugong
Guardians
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Sassy Shark
Guardians
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Wayfarer
Guardians
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Cosmic Eye
Guardians
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Emberling
Shadow Arcs
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Hydra
Shadow Arcs
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Moloch Maze
Shadow Arcs
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Mind Lock
Shadow Arcs
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Rupture Hex
Shadow Arcs
Choose your faction
Ten playable Avatars across two factions
Each Avatar carries its own Hero power and deck logic. Neither faction is the villain of this story, and neither can win the future alone.
Guardians of Elowyn
Avatars of the New Time
Guardians are magical elves and protectors of the realm. They heal, defend, and dispel lies and deception, tasked with stopping the rise of Moloch and guarding Elo’s portal to a New Time.
- Eureka
- Aleph
- Gebo
- Kairos
- Shakti
Shadow Arcs of Moloch
Forces from the underworld
Shadow Arcs are Moloch agents who use deception and brute force to dominate the world and keep us divided. Their goal is to spread the rise of Moloch, and stop Elo’s power.
- Nyx
- Vendra
- Dolos
- Arcon
- Loki
Playable right now
Elowyn is currently in Beta development
The first of five Beta milestones is complete and playable online today. Public Beta launches Q2 2027.
Milestone 1 complete
Live today
- Player versus AI, plus PvP unranked and competitive
- Seven in-game tutorials, from first card to first win
- Deck building across ten Avatars, with 149 cards and their duplicates
- Quests, levels and ranks, seasonal Leaderboard and Tournaments
- Shop, card fusion and upgrades, and the marketplace
- Card packs to win in our Discord through meaningful engagement
- Play4Good initiatives
Q2 2027: 95 more cards, in-game friends system, an eighth tutorial, and the Elo AI agent joining as a helpful guide you can chat with
The shop
Buy packs with EWA Points. Fuse duplicates. Upgrade your Cards. Collect rarities.
Every pack carries its own rarities across Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary. Duplicates fuse into higher tiers, so nothing you pull is ever wasted, and upgraded cards are yours to keep or trade.
EWA Points are purchased through Stripe with an ordinary card payment, at a fixed rate. There is no token, no wallet setup and no crypto to learn. You also earn EWA Points simply by playing.
The Rainforest Pack
Five endangered species, five real habitats
Five unique cards, each one a real endangered species. The purchase itself is the donation, and all net proceeds go to nature regeneration projects.
Play2Thrive economy
How you grow, and what it unlocks
Play and progress
- XP from every match, with levels that unlock card packs
- EWA Points through play, or with an ordinary card payment
- Reputation Points for winning on Time and for healing Elo
- A healthy Elo increases the rewards for both players
Build your deck
- Card packs from the Shop, Seed through to Elowyn
- Fuse duplicates to upgrade cards, Awakened to Eternal
- Test your strongest Deck in Tournaments
- Upgrades change how a card looks and how it plays
Own and climb
- Mint upgraded cards to hold them in your own name
- Trade what you own on the Elowyn marketplace
- Reputation Points rank you on the seasonal Leaderboard
- Season rewards: card packs, bonuses and pre-upgraded cards
Reputation Points can only be played for, never bought or traded. They reset each season, so every season is a fresh climb.
Extra rewards
Quest with us on Immutable Play
Elowyn is distributed on Immutable Play, where a separate quest track runs alongside the game. Complete quests there and you earn on top of everything you already earn in Elowyn. Thank you to Polygon for sponsoring our Immutable questing.
Who will love Elowyn
Win without destroying your opponent
Elowyn is for players who want real competition without the zero-sum ending. Master time, read deception, and heal Elo to find victories that do not cost the world you are playing in.
A new experience of familiar card battles
The turn structure feels like home. The Clock, the Tree and the deception layer will not.
You want your play to count
Every species on the cards is real and endangered. The Rainforest Pack funds nature regeneration and protection.
You like reading people or bluffing
Deception is scored here, not flavour text. Call a bluff correctly and the Clock moves your way.
Play instantly in your browser, no download required. Desktop recommended, with a mobile version coming in mid-2027. Join us on Discord to enter the Elowyn Tournaments, take part in Trivia and AMA events, and sharpen your strategy with players who already master the game.
Play4Good
The endangered species on the cards are real
Elowyn is a member of the UNEP-backed Playing for the Planet Alliance and a finalist for its 2025 Best Small Studio Award. Elowyn includes 22 endangered species to play with, each with its own abilities in the game and its own story in the real world. From mid-Beta you will be able to talk with the Elo AI agent to learn more about them.
Train AI for good
Elowyn is the win-win simulator of the EARTHwise AI Arena
Elowyn gives agents the experience they need to understand interdependence, long-horizon reasoning and win-win logic. Not instruction. Consequence.
Baseline, every model tested
65.8 to 71.6%
Instruction and retrieval
68.9 to 72.7%
After one Elowyn simulation
80.2 to 85%
Alignment scores on a 60 to 90 per cent scale. The dashed line is the 73% ceiling that instruction alone could not break.
One agent shifted its reasoning from zero-sum to win-win, from 70.2% to 82.4% alignment, after a single Elowyn simulation. No prompting and no fine-tuning. Its memory of that experience, handed to a different architecture that never played, reached 85%. Early findings from a controlled pilot, peer-reviewed and published in the AGI-26 proceedings by Springer. Every match you play adds to win-win alignment.
Lore and songs
Join the Quest for a New Time
A dark force named Moloch is on the brink of becoming the world’s first superintelligence, endangering all life on Earth. The weakening Elo holds the key to its transformation, and that requires an unlikely alliance between the Guardians of Elowyn, Moloch’s Shadow Arcs, and humans.
The song of Balam, the black jaguar.
The Elowyn songs
The lore and songs are written by our Founder, Anneloes Smitsman. One of them raises awareness about the black jaguar, known as Balam in the Elowyn game.
From the realm
Latest news
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Partners
Distributed on Immutable Play. Immutable questing sponsored by Polygon. Member of the UNEP-backed Playing for the Planet Alliance and a finalist for its 2025 Best Small Studio Award.