Gods of Pushups

A push-up RPG

Push-ups, but there is something at stake.

Prop your phone against something and start. The camera counts every rep you do — and every one of them lands on whatever you are fighting.

Free at launch · No ads · The video never leaves your phone

How a fight goes

Nothing here is a rep counter with a theme on top. What you can attempt is gated by what you have actually done.

  1. Pick your fight Every boss names a rule — one unbroken set, three sets with a shrinking rest, a ladder up and back down, a round every minute. Six formats, and the rule is the fight.
  2. Prop the phone up The front camera watches you and counts. Shallow reps don't score, and it tells you which ones they were.
  3. Empty the bar Each rep is damage. Break the format or run out of time and the boss keeps whatever health is left — come back when you can take it.

Four ways to spend a set

Solo

Gates

Fight a boss alone. Six gates to climb on each one, from Disciple to Mythic. A gate is bought with coin and earned by clearing the one below — neither alone is enough.

1 v 1

Duel

Thirty seconds, most reps wins. Live against a friend, or against the ghost of a set somebody already did — so there is always someone to fight.

Co-op

Raids

One health bar, several people, everyone counting at once. A raid is a fight nobody clears on their own.

Your record

Codex

Your heroes and their levels, every fight you have finished, and the faces of the things you have beaten — worn as your own.

Six gates, and no shortcut

  • Disciple
  • Adept
  • Master
  • Elite
  • Legend
  • Mythic

Each gate demands more volume, or a harsher condition, than the one under it. A Disciple run and a Legend run on the same boss look different from across the room.

What is waiting

A pantheon of them, and push-ups, pull-ups and squats each have their own ladder to climb.

  • Cerberus, a three-headed hound wreathed in lava and chains, standing under a burning sigil.
    Cerberus of the Three Throats Three heads, three sets. Get past all of them or past none.
  • Kitsune, a masked nine-tailed fox spirit holding blue flame beneath a blood moon.
    Kitsune of the Nine Tails Nine rounds, one for each tail. Every minute, until she is out of them.
  • Wukong hanging from a golden staff against a green-lit night sky.
    Wukong Equal to Heaven Five hundred years pinned under a mountain. Ten minutes on a bar is not going to impress him.

The video never leaves your phone

Counting happens on the device. Each camera frame is turned into a set of joint positions, used to decide whether a rep happened, and thrown away — the next frame overwrites it. Nothing is recorded, nothing is uploaded, and there is no code in the app that could.

What crosses the network during a fight is a rep count and a timestamp. Even a ghost — the recorded set you duel against — is a series of numbers, never a video.

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