The yard
The yard is the universe at the scale of a well.
The public shape is post-apocalyptic. The lore goes further: a world much like Earth, where scarcity, fear, and separation had nearly consumed the web of life. Then the Great Shift: a turn toward mercy, and toward a resource-based economy. Diplomacy is the focus. The design is collaboration, or competition. You are free to be peaceful, or to start wars. The scale of that risk includes nuclear war, an extreme meant to be faced safely inside this world.
It is an open world. You craft your unique story and quests by flowing through your desires. Powrush has been under development since 2016 by Autonomicity Games Inc., as the studio’s Powrush page (opens in a new tab) says.
Five peoples. Under them, harmony pulls against consumption.
A faction system lets you be as diplomatic as you like. Two powers pull on that choice: a coalition of light, and an empire of consumption.
A coalition of advanced species, centered on light, resonance technology, unity, and progressive evolution. Harmony is the aim. Their mothership is the Auroral Unification Nexus (TAUN), a radial form with blue-white auroral light, a symbol of hope and of ordered power.
A predatory, hivemind-driven empire that seeks domination through mind control, consumption, and overwhelming force. The Brood is the aim. The Brood Spire is a tall, dark megastructure, and the hub of that domination. At the center of the Hivelord's helmet is the Crownstone, a large purple crystal that glows.
Ambrosians are crystalline-organic beings, living embodiments of harmonic attunement. The philosophy is Attunement over Domination. They are humanoid, elongated and elegant, with visible internal crystal lattices that glow. On the build, the Ambrosian accent word is prism cool.
The Cydruids are one of the five. A Cydruid is a human housed in a cyborg frame. The frame is worn. The grove is practiced. The person remains. They mend, and they offer. They weave living networks that heal, protect, and restore. “We do not conquer the wild. We become its most faithful expression.” Limbs, then torso, are swapped for machine parts, part by part, all the way to fully cyborg, an upgrade path open to every human. Machine parts mean fewer infections and bionic powers. The person is not a tree. Nature is a practice, not a species. What shows on the frame is teal and leaf-metal trim: metal accents, on a human.
Five doors, four places. Human and Ambrosian land in Sanctuary. A Cydruid lands in Heartwood. A Quellorian lands in Threshold. Draek land in Depths. In the offline hour a well can be idle, glowing, tended, resting, or stressed.
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.
Play boots in the Sanctuary yard. Depths is not the boot. Without the book, the other Places stay closed. There is no Heartwood mesh on Sanctuary. Sanctuary stays isolated. No Market.
What the default client does with those places is on Systems.