Terms of service

Acronauts is a free, real-time multiplayer word game. These terms are an agreement between you and Acronauts (“we”, “us”). If you don’t agree with them, please don’t use Acronauts.

• You must be at least 13 years old.
• If you’re under 18 (or the age of majority where you live), you need a parent or guardian’s permission, and they accept these terms on your behalf.
• You can’t use Acronauts if we’ve banned you before, or if the law where you live forbids it.

• Use an email address you control and keep your password to yourself. You’re responsible for what happens on your account.
• One account per person. Don’t share, sell or transfer accounts.
• Pick a username that doesn’t impersonate anyone and isn’t offensive. We may change or reclaim usernames that break these rules.
• If you think someone else is using your account, tell us at info@acronauts.com.

Don’t:

• cheat, or exploit bugs to gain points or rank (please report bugs to us instead);
• use scripts, automation or extra accounts to play, vote or climb the leaderboard;
• interfere with the game, its servers or other players’ connections, or try to get into accounts or data that aren’t yours;
• scrape, copy or resell the service.

Acronauts is for laughs, not for hurting people. We have zero tolerance for:

• hate speech, slurs, or attacks on people for their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, disability or similar traits;
• harassment, bullying, threats, or encouraging violence or self-harm;
• sexual content involving minors, in any form;
• sharing anyone’s personal information;
• spam, scams or illegal content.

How we enforce it

• One list of hard-banned language applies in every room and every mood, including the cheekier ones. A phrase that contains it is rejected with an explanation, and it’s masked (***) in chat.
• Moderators can remove chat messages, remove players from a room and ban them from that room.
• We can suspend or permanently ban accounts.

To report a player or content, email info@acronauts.com with the username, the room name and roughly when it happened. We review every report and act quickly.

• You own what you write. So we can run the game, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, display and share your phrases and chat messages within Acronauts: in game rooms, on results screens and leaderboards, and in summaries of finished games that players can share.
• Games are shared with other players, so this license continues for content that stays in game history after you delete your account, where it’s shown without your name.
• Only post content you have the right to share.
• We may remove content that breaks these terms.

Some players are AI bots powered by OpenAI. Their phrases, votes and chat are generated automatically and can be wrong, odd or occasionally off the mark. They don’t reflect our views. If a bot says something that crosses the line, report it to info@acronauts.com.

The Acronauts game, website, design, code, artwork, sounds and music belong to us or our licensors. You may use them to play, for your own non-commercial enjoyment.

Acronauts is an independent game inspired by the 1997 classic Acrophobia and isn’t affiliated with its creators.

• Acronauts is free to play. If we ever offer paid extras, you’ll see the price and any extra terms before you buy.
• We’re always improving the game, so features, rules, rooms and scoring may change. We may pause or end the service.
• We may correct or reset scores, stats or leaderboards if something went wrong or someone cheated.

• You can stop playing at any time and delete your account from Profile → Settings (see delete your account).
• We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms or put other players at risk. If you think we got it wrong, email info@acronauts.com.

• We work hard to keep Acronauts running smoothly, but it’s provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, to the extent the law allows. Games can be interrupted, and scores can be lost.
• To the extent the law allows, we’re not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses or for lost data, and our total liability to you for any claim is limited to US$50.
• Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer protection laws that can’t be waived.

If something goes wrong, please email us first at info@acronauts.com. Most problems can be sorted out quickly that way.

These terms are governed by the laws of the place where Acronauts is established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts, nothing here takes that away.

We may update these terms. We’ll post the new version here with a new date, and for significant changes we’ll tell you in the game or by email before they take effect. If you keep playing after that, you accept the updated terms.

Questions about these terms: info@acronauts.com.