We are excited to announce that we are supporting WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation for World Ocean Day!
The WDC World Ocean Day Sale has started and runs until 12th June, 10am PDT 2025, Several games are donating a percentage of their profits to the WDC to support their conservation work.*
In Ashes
We’re excited to share that Studio Ephua has generously donated to the cause!
While our story highlights acts of heroism, it also places a strong focus on humanity’s impact on the natural world, as well as the sentient and non-sentient beings that inhabit it.
In the depths of the forest, a mysterious corruption has begun to affect many living creatures. It’s up to your hero to uncover the cause of this corruption, and more importantly, figure out how to stop it—and who can still be saved.
If you haven't already, add the game to your wishlist!
Who are WDC?
WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation are the leading global charity dedicated to the protection of whales and dolphins.
Their expert-led teams in the UK, Europe, the Americas, and Australasia work across the whole spectrum of threats, from climate breakdown to accidental entanglements in fishing gear, pollution, captivity and hunting and whaling. They bring together, and work hand-in-hand with, businesses, philanthropists, scientists, NGOs, governments and grassroots communities to find solutions to the problems faced by whales and dolphins.
Their mission is to reverse the global decline of whale and dolphin populations by creating safe seas for these majestic beings. And their vision is a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.
What is ghost gear?
Ghost gear is fishing gear that has been lost or abandoned at sea. It’s a deadly menace to whales, dolphins and other marine life.
When a whale or dolphin gets tangled in it, it can kill them in the most horrific way, by preventing them from getting to the surface to breathe. Or they can carry it for days, weeks or even months suffering a slow and painful death as it cuts into their skin, restricts their movement and hampers their ability to hunt and feed.
But it’s difficult and expensive for fishers and other ocean users to dispose of gear they find at sea, or even to responsibly get rid of their own gear at the end of its life.
Did you know that about 1/3 of marine litter found in European seas is discarded fishing gear? That's estimated to be over 11,000 tonnes entering the sea each year!
It is a massive problem and so WDC are working on some innovative solutions.
How your support will help this year
By purchasing games from this year’s World Ocean Day sale, you will help WDC continue their global conservation work, as well as their ghost gear removal project, funding 10 missions for divers to remove lethal entanglement hazards to marine life (and scuba divers) from reefs, seabed and shipwrecks in UK seas.
Whales and dolphins are awe-inspiring, intelligent beings. The ocean produces more oxygen and absorbs more carbon than all of Earth's forests combined, and whales help it flourish. Yet 300,000 whales die in fishing gear every year.
If you want to read more about WDC, you can do so here:
Keep up to date with all the awesome gaming activities WDC does by signing up to their mailing list here:
https://games.whales.org/#newsletter
And you can find many other amazing games in the sale here:
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Thank you for joining us and for supporting WDC!
*WDC is a UK registered charity (no. 1014705). Farewell, Adventurer
- Ephua