Reverdure
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Move to claim
Head out for a workout. The route you cover becomes territory you pull back from the contamination, tile by tile.
iPhone & Apple Watch · Now in beta
Move to take
the world back.
A territorial strategy game powered by your real workouts. Get out and move to reclaim ground after an alien invasion, clear it of contamination the aliens left behind, and Reverdure the world with green, collaboratively with the people around you.
The world is overgrown. After an alien invasion, a grey, creeping contamination has buried the map.
There's only one way to push it back: real effort, in the real world. Every workout you do turns into ground reclaimed. No effort means no progress, and there's no way to buy your way ahead.
How it works
A loop in two beats.
Clear & rebuild
Spend the effort you earned to clear the contamination and grow your tiles back to green with greenhouses, atmosphere domes, and decontamination outposts.
Bring someone outside
Cooperation only works with people who are physically near you. Your housemate, or the coworker who lives a few blocks over. You reinforce each other's territory, so when you want backup you aren't pinging a stranger online. You're getting someone you know to come outside.
What makes it different
A few things I won't budge on.
You can't fake the work
Your watch reads your heart rate, so the game knows whether you actually worked. Strap your phone to a record player to fake the GPS if you want. Without a real heartbeat behind it, you've earned nothing.
You don't have to be a runner
A walk counts. So does a bike ride, or a session on the rowing machine you forgot you owned. The watch only cares that your heart is working, and the map is just where that effort turns up.
No pay-to-win
Money never buys an advantage, and it never will. You can't skip the work with a credit card.
No way to grief anyone
You can thank people and reinforce their ground, but there's no way to grief them. No button targets a person, and there's no chat to be nasty in. Whatever you send another player, it can't be hostile.
Why it exists
Built to make you healthier.
The map and the aliens are there to make this fun enough that you keep opening it. The actual job is simpler: get you moving more, and still moving next month. When a feature would juice my numbers without making you any healthier, I don't ship it.
FAQ
A couple of honest answers.
Is the map rendering a bit janky?
Yes, I know. It's all built on an Apple Maps renderer right now. I'll redo it in a proper game engine eventually.
Why doesn't the game have sound?
Because you're probably listening to music during your workout.