Terms of Service
The rules for using this website and the RecursionSplash online services behind our games.
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1. Agreement
These Terms govern your use of recursionsplashgames.com and the online services that support our games — leaderboards, cloud progression, the global counter and in-game events. By using them you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the services.
RecursionSplash is an independent game studio operated by a sole proprietor based in Ontario, Canada.
The games themselves are additionally governed by the End User Licence Agreement, and their distribution is governed by Valve's Steam Subscriber Agreement, which is a separate agreement between you and Valve.
2. Who may use the services
You must be at least 13 years old, or older where local law requires it. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only use the services with the consent of a parent or guardian.
3. Your account
Your identity on our services is tied to your Steam account. You are responsible for keeping that account secure. We are not liable for loss arising from someone else using your Steam credentials.
We may suspend or terminate access to our online services if you:
- Cheat, automate, exploit or otherwise manipulate game systems in ways the game does not itself offer;
- Attempt to disrupt, overload, reverse engineer or gain unauthorised access to our infrastructure;
- Harass other players;
- Use the services for anything unlawful.
If you think we got it wrong, email support@recursionsplashgames.com with your SteamID. We will look at it again and reply. We would rather fix a mistake than lose a player to one.
Suspending your access to our online services does not remove the game from your Steam library — that relationship is between you and Valve.
4. Virtual items and currencies
Any in-game currency, item, pet, boost or collectable is a limited, revocable, non-transferable licence to use a digital feature of the game. It is not your property, has no monetary value outside the game, and cannot be exchanged for cash or transferred to another person.
We may modify, rebalance, add or remove virtual items as part of normal game operation. In an Early Access title in particular, balance changes are expected and are not a defect.
If we permanently discontinue a game's online services, we will give reasonable notice on this website and in the devlog.
5. Purchases and refunds
All purchases are processed by Valve through Steam. We never receive your payment details. Refunds are handled under Steam's refund policy, not by us directly — Valve is the merchant of record.
Nothing in these Terms removes any right you have under consumer protection law, including the Ontario Consumer Protection Act and equivalent legislation where you live. Where those rights conflict with anything here, those rights win.
6. Early Access
Community Button is distributed in Early Access. That means:
- Features may change, be replaced, or be removed.
- Balance and economy values will be adjusted based on live data.
- Service interruptions are more likely than in a finished product.
- We intend to preserve player progress across updates, but cannot guarantee it in the event of a critical fault.
Buy or play it for what it is today, not for what it may become.
7. Availability
Our online services are provided on an "as available" basis. We do not guarantee uninterrupted uptime, and we may take services offline for maintenance or discontinue them with reasonable notice.
8. Feedback you send us
If you send us feedback, bug reports or suggestions, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to act on them without obligation or payment. You keep ownership of anything you create; we simply need permission to use an idea you have chosen to send us.
Please do not send us confidential information or anything you are not free to share.
9. Intellectual property
The games, this website, our logos, artwork, music, code and brand names are owned by RecursionSplash and protected by copyright and trade mark law.
You may record, stream and publish video of our games, including monetised video, without asking us. You may use our screenshots and key art in articles, videos and thumbnails. That permission is real and you can rely on it. What you may not do is claim you made the game, or republish our assets as if they were your own work.
10. Disclaimers and liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the services are provided without warranties of any kind, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you have paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Our games are free to download, so for most players that amount is zero.
Nothing in these Terms excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.
11. If part of these Terms fails
If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, that part is removed and the rest continues to apply. If we do not enforce something straight away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.
12. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. The courts of Ontario have jurisdiction over any dispute.
If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live, and it does not prevent you bringing a claim in your local courts where the law gives you that right.
13. Changes
We may update these Terms. Material changes will be posted here and announced in the devlog, and the date at the top of this page will change. Continued use after a change means you accept the revised Terms.