Privacy & how it works
EcoSphere on the web is built the same way as our iOS apps: private by design.
Everything stays on this device
Your progress — best scores and XP — is stored only in this browser (on-device storage). It is never sent anywhere. Clear your browser data and it's gone; nobody else can see it.
No accounts, no ads, no tracking
There is no sign-up and no login. There are no ads and no in-app purchases. There are no third-party trackers embedded in the app.
How it works
In the Ecosystem Lab, you change one part of a real food chain — remove a predator, boost a plant — and a model shows how the change ripples up and down the levels. That ripple is a trophic cascade: the same idea scientists use to explain why bringing wolves back to Yellowstone helped the trees along the rivers grow again. In the Restoration Scenario, you predict what a real conservation project will do to a whole ecosystem before the model reveals it — because making a prediction first (even a wrong one) is one of the best ways to learn. Or run a Concepts kit: a short round of questions. A hint appears only after a first try, so you think it through first — and mistakes are treated as part of learning.
Hope-forward, not doom
Nature stories can feel heavy. EcoSphere is built to leave you understanding how ecosystems work and what helps them recover — protecting keystone species, removing invasives, replanting habitats — not frightened. Every restoration project in the game shows life coming back, because that is what really happens when people give ecosystems a chance.
Built for ages 9–14
The 400 Concepts questions come straight from the EcoSphere iOS app and are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards for ecosystems and Earth systems (grades 4–8). Everything works with the sound off and can be played entirely by keyboard. Meet the cast and read their stories at the cast page.