End User Licence Agreement

RecursionSplash's licence terms for Community Button and Pixel Flip, which sit alongside Valve's Steam Subscriber Agreement.

Last updated 3 October 2026

How this licence applies

Community Button and Pixel Flip are distributed through Steam. Valve licenses you to download and use games on Steam under the Steam Subscriber Agreement, which is an agreement between you and Valve. This page sets out the additional terms RecursionSplash sets for its games. They add to the Steam Subscriber Agreement and do not replace it.

The permissions in section 3 apply to everyone. The other terms on this page apply to you once you have accepted them, or if you keep playing after being clearly shown them. If a term here conflicts with the Steam Subscriber Agreement, the Steam Subscriber Agreement prevails to the extent of the conflict. The exception is the permissions in section 3, which RecursionSplash gives in addition to that agreement.

1. Licence grant

RecursionSplash, an independent game studio based in Canada, grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and play our games for your own entertainment. The licence is for non-commercial use, except that recording, streaming and publishing videos of our games, including monetised videos, is permitted as described in section 3.

2. What you may not do

You may not:

Sell, rent, sublicense, or redistribute the software;
Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except to the limited extent that applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction;
Modify the software or create derivative works from it for distribution to others;
Use cheats, trainers, bots, memory editors or automation tools against our online services, except auto-clickers and accessibility tools in Community Button, which are allowed (see section 3 of our Terms of Service);
Circumvent, disable or interfere with any security, anti-cheat or entitlement mechanism;
Host, emulate or operate an unauthorised server for our games;
Extract and reuse our assets (art, music, code, text) in your own projects.

3. Content creation

Recording and streaming our games — including monetised video — is expressly permitted, and nothing in sections 1 or 2 restricts it. Capturing footage, taking screenshots and using our published screenshots and key art in your videos and articles is fine, and you do not need to ask us first.

What we ask: do not claim you made the game, and do not republish our assets as standalone work of your own.

4. Ownership

The software is licensed, not sold. RecursionSplash and its licensors retain all right, title and interest in the games. Some components are used under licence from their own authors — including third-party engine, library and font components, and asset elements produced with the help of generative AI tools and then reviewed and integrated by us. Your licence to the game does not grant you rights to those components separately.

5. Virtual items

Virtual items and currencies are covered by the virtual items section of our Terms of Service. In short: they are a revocable licence to use a feature, not property. Some Community Button items can be traded on the Steam Community Market under Valve's rules; we do not guarantee their value.

6. Updates

We may issue patches, updates and content changes automatically through Steam. Some updates may be required in order to keep using online features.

7. Suspension and termination

If you break section 2, we may end this licence and suspend or close your access to our online services, as set out in section 3 of our Terms of Service. We cannot remove a game from your Steam library or end your Steam licence: that is between you and Valve under the Steam Subscriber Agreement. Sections 2, 4, 8 and 9 continue to apply after this licence ends.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, RecursionSplash is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data or goodwill. Our aggregate liability is limited to the amount you paid, through Steam, for our games and any DLC or in-game purchases for them in the 12 months preceding the claim.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

If you live in the UK or the EU, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking this agreement or failing to use reasonable care. We are not responsible for loss that was not foreseeable.