Powrush
Pale stone city of arched halls and glowing crystal spires on cliff terraces, with waterfalls falling into mist, a glowing portal, and robed lavender-skinned figures walking a bridge at sunset.

The lesson

Powrush

If you only take, the glow fades. If you allocate, the climate comes back.

Painted art. Not a screenshot of the current offline build.

Status

What you walk into

Powrush is a human game from Autonomicity Games Inc. (opens in a new tab). You walk a climate, harvest with mercy, and learn a resource-based economy by playing. The lesson is in the hands. The later hope is shared abundance, not extraction. It is a teaching, not a wage.

The yard is the universe at the scale of a well. One human, one machine. Offline first. The current build is offline and single-player, and it is in active development. Online play isn’t available yet. There is no Steam page, and there is no release date. It is not a public launch candidate.

Powrush has been under development since 2016 by Autonomicity Games Inc., as the studio’s Powrush page (opens in a new tab) says. The Powrush-MMO licence (opens in a new tab) reads “Copyright (c) 2016–2026”. The public repository is Powrush-MMO (opens in a new tab).

Doorways

Painted places

These paintings are not gameplay, and they are not screenshots of the current offline build. When the subject is the build itself, the look is gritty low-poly volume and high-detail light: desaturated earth, and one accent for the place.

  • Futuristic white cable-car station under an arched glass canopy where pale armored figures with long pink hair board a gondola above a valley of turquoise lakes and waterfalls.
    Painted art. Cable car above turquoise lakes.
  • Two lavender-skinned figures read a tablet on a terrace overlooking a tall white spire housing a glowing blue crystal, surrounded by pools, bridges and a waterfall city.
    Painted art. A crystal spire above the terraces.
  • Terraced farm with glass greenhouses and solar panels where workers pick tomatoes and push a cart of produce crates, with a lake and mountains behind.
    Painted art. Terraced greenhouses.
  • Wooden lakeside dock beside a solar-roofed field station, where people in field gear check equipment and tie up a utility boat, with rock spires on the far shore.
    Painted art. A lakeside dock.
  • Village market square of green-roofed timber stalls stocked with fruit and vegetables, with people shopping, a creek and footbridge, and jagged mountains and a waterfall beyond.
    Painted art. A village market square.
  • A lavender-skinned traveler with a backpack stands in front of an arched white bridge with violet glass railings over a waterfall gorge as two more travelers cross it.
    Painted art. A bridge over a waterfall gorge.