Terms of Service

Agreeing to these terms

By installing, signing in to or playing any of our games, or by using this website or our community spaces, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use them.

"We", "us" and "Gothika Gaming" mean the developer of these games. "You" means the person playing. Some games or offers have extra terms of their own, such as the Blackwood Forge pre-registration reward terms. Where those extra terms say something different, they win for that game or offer.

How we handle your information is set out in our Privacy Policy, which is part of these terms.

Who can play

• Our games are not made for children under 13. Several have chat with other players, so please don't make an account or sign in if you're under 13.
• If you're under 18, or under the age of adulthood where you live, you need a parent or guardian's permission to play and to make any purchase. They agree to these terms on your behalf.
• You may not play if we have closed your account before for breaking these terms, unless we have said you may come back.

Your account

• Some games make an account in the game itself; others use your Google Play Games sign-in. Either way, you are responsible for what happens on your account, so keep your sign-in details to yourself.
• Accounts are personal. Don't sell, buy, share, lend or trade accounts or characters. If you do, we can't help you get one back if it goes wrong, and we may close the accounts involved.
• Character, guild and display names must follow the rules of play below. We may change or remove a name that doesn't, and we may hold back names that look like ours or our staff's.
• You can delete your account where a game offers it; the Privacy Policy explains what that removes.

Your license to play

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to play our games for your own non-commercial entertainment, on devices you own or control. The games, their art, music, words, characters, world and code belong to Gothika Gaming or to those who licensed them to us. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of any of it to you.

You may stream and make videos of our games, and you may earn money from them through the usual platform programs, as long as the content isn't hateful or misleading and doesn't pass itself off as official. You can't sell our games, their art or their parts, or charge others to get into them.

In-game currencies and items

• Currencies such as Embers, coin and gold, and every item, card, cosmetic, pet, character and unlock in our games, are part of the game, not property. When you buy or earn them, you get a license to use them in that game under these terms.
• They have no cash value. They can't be exchanged for real money or anything outside the game, by us or by anyone else, and they can't be moved between our games unless a game says so.
• Where a game lets players trade, sell to each other or use a market, that is only for in-game value inside that game. Selling or buying in-game currency, items or accounts for real money (outside the game's own store) is not allowed.
• We may need to change or rebalance items, prices, drop rates and currencies to keep a game fair and working. We may correct currency or items that came from a bug, an exploit or a mistake, including by taking them back.
• If an account is closed under these terms, or a game ends, its currencies and items go with it, except where the law requires otherwise.

Purchases and refunds

• Purchases are made through the store you downloaded the game from, such as Google Play, or the payment service a game names. That store's terms apply to the payment as well as ours.
• Prices are shown before you pay. Purchases deliver what they describe, to the account you made them on.
• Refunds are handled by the store you paid through, under its refund rules. If something you bought didn't arrive, contact us and we'll put it right.
• If a purchase is refunded or reversed (a chargeback, for example), we may remove what it gave you, including anything made from it.
• A subscription or membership, where a game offers one, renews until you cancel it in the store you subscribed through. Cancelling stops the next payment; you keep its benefits until the end of the period you paid for.
• Nothing in these terms takes away any right to a refund that the law where you live gives you.

Advertising

Some of our games show optional rewarded adverts: you choose to watch one in exchange for something in the game. They are served by Google AdMob under Google's policies, as the Privacy Policy describes. We don't promise how often adverts are available or what they reward, and those rewards follow the same rules as any other in-game item.

Rules of play

Our games are shared spaces. You agree not to:

• Cheat: use hacks, bots, macros, automation, modified clients or other software that plays for you or gives you an unfair advantage.
• Exploit bugs or glitches on purpose, or keep using one after you find it. Please report it instead.
• Attack or overload our servers, get into parts of a game or server you aren't meant to, or copy, take apart or reverse engineer our games, except as the law allows.
• Trade for real money: sell or buy accounts, characters, currencies or items outside a game's own store.
• Harass, threaten, bully or stalk anyone, or encourage others to.
• Post hateful content attacking people for their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, disability or similar.
• Post sexual content, or anything that sexualizes minors; content promoting violence, self-harm or illegal activity; or other people's private information.
• Scam, spam or advertise, including links to cheats, other games or services, or trades for real money.
• Impersonate Gothika Gaming, our staff, moderators or another player.
• Make misleading reports or abuse the report button.

Chat and what you post

Some games have public, party, guild or private chat, and our community spaces have their own. Anything you type there is yours, but you give us permission to store, show and use it as needed to run the games and keep them safe, as the Privacy Policy describes. Others will see what you post, so please don't share anything private.

We don't watch every message, but we may filter, hide or remove anything that breaks these terms, and every game with chat lets you report and block other players. Our community spaces on Discord also follow Discord's own terms.

When the rules are broken

If you break these terms, we may, depending on how serious it is: warn you, mute your chat, remove names, items or currency gained unfairly, reset progress, or suspend or permanently close your account. For the most serious cases (cheating, real-money trading, threats or anything involving the safety of a child) we may close an account without warning, and we may report illegal activity to the authorities.

If you think we got it wrong, contact us through Support or by email and we will look at it again.

Testing, early access and changes to our games

• Games in testing or early access are unfinished. Things will change and break, and progress, characters, items or currencies there may be reset or wiped, sometimes without notice.
• We keep working on our games. We may add, change or remove features, content, balance and rules at any time.
• Online games need our servers. They may be down for maintenance or have outages, and we may require you to update a game to keep playing.
• We may one day end an online game or its servers. If we do, we will give reasonable notice where we can, and we will stop selling anything for it first.

Other companies' services

Our games use services run by others, such as Google Play, Google Play Games, Google AdMob and Discord. Your use of them is covered by their own terms and policies, and we aren't responsible for them.

No warranty

We work hard to make our games fun and reliable, but they are provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no promises that they will always be available, free of bugs or errors, or that anything will be kept forever, and we disclaim implied warranties such as merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Gothika Gaming is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost data, progress or in-game items. Our total liability to you for anything to do with our games is limited to the amount you paid us in the six months before the claim, or US$50 if that is more.

Some places don't allow these limits, so some of them may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law says can't be limited.

Ending this agreement

You can stop playing at any time, and delete your account where a game offers it. We may close an account under "When the rules are broken" above, or when we end a game. The parts of these terms that by their nature should continue (about ownership, currencies, liability and the law) keep applying after an account is closed.

The law that applies

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Mississippi, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute that can't be settled by talking to us first will be decided in the state or federal courts located in Mississippi, and you and we agree to that jurisdiction.

If you live outside the United States, you keep any rights the consumer laws of your own country give you that can't be signed away, including the right to bring a claim in your own courts where those laws allow it.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as our games grow. The date at the top shows when they last changed. If a change matters, we will let players know in the game, on Discord or on this site before it takes effect. If you keep playing after it takes effect, you accept the new terms; if you don't agree, you can stop playing and delete your account.

The rest

If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce something straight away, we can still enforce it later. You can't transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else; we may transfer ours if our games move to someone else, and these terms will go with them.

Contact

Questions about these terms, or something to report: gothikagaming01@gmail.com, or our Support Discord.