EcoQuest — Our Impact

EcoQuest exists to make people care about the natural world by first helping them fall in love with it. Part of how we honour that is a standing financial commitment to the places and species the game is about.

Rachamim Labs pledges 20% of EcoQuest's revenue to environmental conservation partners. This is a corporate commitment — a fixed share of what the company earns from EcoQuest, given to organisations working to protect real habitats. It is not a per-purchase transaction, a tip, or an add-on at checkout: you pay the price on the pricing page, and the pledge is something the company does with its own revenue afterwards.

For this pledge, "revenue" means EcoQuest's gross revenue over the calendar year, net of merchant-of-record fees (charged by Paddle) and any refunds.

The pledge is one half of how we try to be useful. The other half is where the game points people's attention in the first place.

EcoQuest is built place-first. You find a location before you meet anything that lives there, which is the opposite of how most wildlife content works. That is deliberate, and it follows published conservation science. Research led by Macquarie University with The Nature Conservancy, Oxford University and the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (McGowan et al., Nature Communications, 2020) found that choosing conservation sites which contain a well-known, charismatic species still retains 79 to 89 percent of the biodiversity benefit of choosing sites on biodiversity grounds alone, and up to 97 percent across the highest-return sites.

In other words, the famous animal is a door into a place, and the place is where the living things are. So the species in EcoQuest are chosen, not just collected. Alongside the animals most people already love, we deliberately feature species that have every quality that makes a flagship work and no campaign behind them at all: the bay cat, the white-backed vulture, the Malayan sun bear, the marbled murrelet.

Two things worth being straight about. Our conservation giving supports habitats and the organisations working in them, and is not tied to any individual animal shown in the game. And featuring a species in EcoQuest is an editorial choice about what is worth knowing. It is not a claim that our giving has protected that species.

Each year we publish what we actually gave: the organisations we donated to and the amounts. We report donations made — money we have given — and do not claim environmental outcomes on their behalf.

We'll update this page as each annual report is finalised.

Questions about the pledge or our giving? Email support@ecoquest.app.