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EcoMatch
Ecological Strategy Β· Reclaim Online

Be Our Ally

Fight back. Reclaim the world.

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Browser game Β· no download Β· 59 species Β· 7 missions Β· play with ads or credits

How it plays

Short runs. Hard choices. No right answer.

Each run is a sequence of encounters written in the voice of a dry, slightly exasperated war correspondent. A situation unfolds β€” a highway cutting through a migration route, a town overrun by rats, poachers moving through a conservancy at night β€” and you are given two moves. Both have a price. One usually looks better and hides a cost.

Your choices move four meters at once: how far the mission has progressed, how dangerous the situation is becoming, how healthy the surrounding ecosystem still is, and how much the humans who hired you still trust you. Push any of them too far and the run ends β€” in victory, in a messy compromise, or in collapse. Then you read what actually happened.

Solo

Play one species against a scenario written for its real strengths and weaknesses. Ants organise; wolves hunt; fungi wait.

Alliance

Pair two species whose abilities combine β€” and whose interests may not. One of them can betray the other mid-run.

Missions

Longer campaigns set in a real place with a real client: a conservancy manager, a river community, a park ranger. The client means well. The client caused this.

The roster

59 species, each with real biology

Every species plays differently because every species is different. Powers and weaknesses are drawn from how the animal actually lives β€” population size, intelligence, what it eats, what eats it, where it can and cannot go. The numbers below are real.

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Ants
20 quadrillion
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Mosquitoes
110 trillion
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Wasps
100 trillion
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Bees
2 trillion
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Rats
7 billion
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Jellyfish
500 trillion
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Wolves
300,000
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Locusts
70 billion per swarm
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Cockroaches
1 trillion
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Crows
2 billion
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Sharks
1 billion
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Fungi
Unmeasurable
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Raccoons
1 billion
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Spiders
10 trillion
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Lizards
60 billion
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Snakes
1 trillion
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Bears
1.5 million
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Orcas
100,000
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Dolphins
600 million
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Pigeons
400 million
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Silverfish
unknown β€” uncountable
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Fruit Flies
uncountable
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Lice
1.2 billion active infestations
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Mites
1 billion per human
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Fleas
uncountable
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Nematodes
57 billion per human
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Octopus
300 million
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Starlings
1 billion
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Mycelium
estimated 5 million species
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Deer
100 million
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Magpies
700 million
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Cows
1 billion
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Chickens
33 billion
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Parrots
350 million
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Elephants
400,000
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Whales
2 million
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Crocodiles
1 million
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Horseshoe Crabs
4 million
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Beavers
20 million
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Honey Badger
unknown β€” we don't stay where we're counted
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Kudzu
uncountable Β· by the acre
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Bamboo
trillions of culms
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Giant Hogweed
spreading, county by county
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Old Growth
the ones you left standing
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Cane Toads
200 million and climbing
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Anglerfish
unknown Β· the dark is large
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Colossal Squid
few Β· but very large
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Electric Eel
millions in the basins
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Tardigrades
everywhere Β· you're breathing some now
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Plankton
beyond counting
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Canada Geese
7 million Β· fully mobilised
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Bedbugs
in the walls Β· in the seams
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Seagulls
tens of millions, coastal
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Foxes
millions Β· urban and rural
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Termites
in the billions of colonies
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Slime Mold
one cell Β· vast
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Cordyceps
a spore on every surface
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Vultures
millions, circling
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Mountain Gorillas
just over a thousand β€” all of us
Theatres of operation

Real places. Real clients. Real trade-offs.

Africa

The oldest grudges on the planet.

Amazon & the Tropics

Everything here is trying to eat everything else. Including you.

Oceans

Seventy per cent of the planet. Zero per cent consulted.

Northern Wilds

Old forests, long winters, longer memories.

Remote & Extreme

The places you have never been, and the things that live there anyway.

The Cosmopolitans

Already in your city. Already in your street. Not leaving.

The Household

You invited us in. You just didn't know it.

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The Laikipia Problem
Laikipia Plateau, Kenya

Disrupt an organised poaching network before the dry season ends.

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The Acre Accord
TapajΓ³s River Basin, Brazilian Amazon

Drive illegal gold miners from Munduruku ancestral land before the river is poisoned beyond recovery.

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The Reef Brief
Coral Triangle, Philippines

End dynamite fishing before the blast concussions destroy the last intact coral system in the Triangle.

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The Bwindi Protocol
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

Get the mountain gorillas through a disease season without losing a family. Dr. Gladys sets the goal. The gorillas choose the means..

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The BiaΕ‚owieΕΌa Silence
BiaΕ‚owieΕΌa Forest, Poland–Belarus border

Stop the 'sanitary' logging of Europe's last lowland primeval forest before the harvesters reach the old stands.

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The Hadal Lease
Clarion–Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean, 4,500 metres

Stop a test-mining collector stripping the abyssal plain before the regulators vote on deep-sea mining.

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The Marseille Fog
Marseille, France

Stop a citywide insecticide fogging order without letting the tiger mosquito win.

How it works

Play the game. Fund the mission.

EcoMatch is not free to play, and that is the point. Your first species is on us; after that you unlock species, alliances and missions either by watching a short ad or by buying credits through a secure card payment. Nothing is sold that gives you an advantage β€” every unlock is content, never a win button.

A share of what players spend on the game's conservation missions goes to the field organisations whose work those missions are based on. When you play a mission set in a real place with a real client, the people doing that work on the ground get paid. Play the game. Fund the mission.

Watch an ad

A short rewarded ad unlocks a species, alliance or mission run. No account upgrade, no subscription.

Buy credits

Card payments via Stripe. Credits never expire and are spent only on unlocks you choose.

Fund the field

A share of mission revenue is passed to the conservation partners the missions are built with.

Why this game exists

Conservation is a trolley problem

Most games about nature put you in charge of saving it. EcoMatch puts you on the other side: you are the animal, the humans are the client, and the only tools you have are the ones your species actually possesses. There is no option that hurts nobody. The game is about noticing which costs you are willing to pay β€” and who ends up paying them.

Runs take five to fifteen minutes. There is nothing to install. Sign in, pick your first species, and see how long you last.