Also published on Steam: the ORDNIX EULA on Steam.
PROJECT ORDNIX (working title "ORDNIX", the "Game") is developed and published by a single independent developer, the publisher named on the Game's Steam store page (the "Developer"). The Game is an Early Access title: it is unfinished and will change. This Agreement is a legal contract between you and the Developer. Please read it carefully; it contains disclaimers of warranties, limitations of liability, and rules about disputes that affect your legal rights.
1. Acceptance and Eligibility
By selecting "Accept" on this gate, or by installing, copying, accessing, or using the Game in any way, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, the Privacy Policy, the Code of Conduct, the Content Disclaimer, and the Health and Safety Warning presented with it (together, the "Terms"). If you do not agree, select "Decline" and the Game will close; do not install or use the Game.
The Game contains graphic violence and is intended for adults. You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live) to accept these Terms on your own behalf. If you are younger, a parent or legal guardian must read and accept these Terms for you, and by doing so they confirm that they are legally authorized to do so, that they take responsibility for your use of the Game and its online features, that they have reviewed the Content Disclaimer and consider the Game's content appropriate and lawful for you where you live, and that you are at least 13 years old (or the minimum age of digital consent where you live, which is 16 in some countries, if higher), below which the Game and its Online Service may not be used at all. The Game has not yet been assigned an age rating by any rating body and is not directed at children.
You may not use the Game if you are barred from doing so under the laws of the country where you live or from which you access the Game, or if you are a person or entity with whom the Developer is prohibited from dealing under applicable sanctions or export laws.
2. License Grant
Subject to your continued compliance with these Terms, the Developer grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, limited license to install and run one copy of the Game, on devices you own or control, for your own private, non-commercial entertainment. The Game is licensed to you, not sold. Nothing in these Terms transfers any title or ownership interest to you. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by the Developer and its licensors.
The license extends to updates, patches, and additional content the Developer makes available for the Game, unless such content comes with its own terms. Keys or copies provided free of charge for review, testing, promotion, or as a gift are subject to these Terms and may be revoked.
The Game provides no modification tools and no official support for modifications. Any modification of the Game's files or behavior is unsupported, is at your own risk, and may be treated as cheating in online play (section 3).
3. Restrictions
Except as expressly permitted by these Terms or by a law that cannot be waived by agreement, you agree that you will not, and will not allow or help anyone else to:
- Copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, transmit, rent, lease, lend, sell, resell, sublicense, or otherwise transfer the Game, any part of it, or your license, except as the distribution platform's own terms expressly allow;
- Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, protocols, save formats, network formats, or anti-cheat mechanisms of the Game, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits this despite this limitation;
- Modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works of the Game or any of its assets, or use its code, art, audio, writing, or interface outside the Game, including to train, fine-tune, or evaluate machine-learning models;
- Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, or proprietary notice, digital signature, or integrity mechanism;
- Use cheats, hacks, trainers, bots, automation, macros, scripts, memory or packet editors, modified clients, edited save or record files, or any other software, hardware, or method to gain an unfair advantage, bypass game mechanics, see information the Game does not show you, or manipulate matchmaking, ratings, records, or match outcomes;
- Exploit bugs, defects, or unintended behavior for advantage in online play instead of reporting them to the Developer;
- Interfere with, disrupt, overload, probe, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the matchmaking, relay, ranking, or other online components of the Game (the "Online Service"), any other player's device, or the Steam platform, including through denial-of-service activity, packet manipulation, spoofing, or unauthorized access attempts;
- Scrape, harvest, or collect data about other players or the Online Service, or use the Game or its Online Service to distribute malware, unsolicited advertising, or unlawful content;
- Use the Game for any commercial purpose, including paid boosting, wagering, gambling, or tournaments run for profit, without the Developer's prior written permission (non-commercial community events and streaming are welcome, see section 8);
- Share, sell, buy, or transfer accounts, ratings, or records, or let anyone else play under your identity;
- Use the Game to harass, threaten, defame, stalk, or abuse anyone, or to violate any applicable law or the rights of any person (see also the Code of Conduct).
The Game may verify the integrity of its own files and code while it runs and may decline to take part in online play from a modified copy. Any use of the Game that these Terms do not expressly permit is a breach of this Agreement and may also violate copyright and other laws.
4. Ownership and Intellectual Property
The Game, including all software, code, engines, tools, artwork, models, animations, audio, music, text, names, story, characters, user interface, compilations, and all related materials, and all copies of them, are the intellectual property of the Developer and its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws and treaties. "ORDNIX" and the Game's logos are trademarks or trade names of the Developer. Third-party components remain the property of their respective owners and are used under the licenses described in the Third-Party Software notice. Nothing in these Terms grants you any right to use the Developer's names, logos, or trademarks except to identify the Game in reviews, videos, and commentary as described in section 8.
If you believe that anything in the Game infringes your intellectual property or other rights, contact the Developer through the support channel in section 20 with enough detail to identify the material and your rights; good-faith notices are reviewed promptly.
5. Online Service, Accounts, and Enforcement
Multiplayer, matchmaking, ranked play, quick play, custom lobbies, chat relay, leaderboards, and related features (the "Online Service") are provided at the Developer's discretion and depend on the distribution platform and on other players' machines. Your identity for the Online Service is derived from your platform account: when you play through Steam, the Game presents your Steam account id and a Steam authentication ticket to the match host so the host can confirm with Steam that you are the account you claim (Privacy Policy, section 2). You are responsible for keeping that account secure and for everything done through it. There is no separate Developer account, password, or customer database.
The Online Service has no dedicated servers: each match is hosted by one participating player's machine, and the player-record store of a ladder lives on the host's machine. The Developer does not operate, monitor, or control any host's machine or connection and is not responsible for the conduct, availability, latency, or reliability of any host or participant.
The Game includes built-in anti-cheat checks that run only inside the Game's own process, only while the Game runs, as described plainly in section 13 of the Privacy Policy. By using the Online Service you acknowledge those checks and the one-byte platform-posture summary sent to the match host when you join, and you agree that ranked queues may be closed to systems whose posture the Game cannot verify.
Use of the Online Service is subject to the Code of Conduct. The Developer may, on a reasonable, good-faith basis and with or without notice:
- Warn, restrict, suspend, or permanently revoke access to the Online Service, in whole or in part, for cheating, exploiting, automation, tampering, harassment, abandonment, or any other conduct that violates these Terms;
- Reset, adjust, remove, or void ratings, records, XP, streaks, cosmetic unlocks, or match results that were obtained through cheating, exploitation, collusion, or a technical fault;
- Restrict or remove chat access for abusive content; and
- Refuse, void, or replay any match affected by a desynchronization, disconnection, or technical fault, without any award to any participant.
Leaving a live ranked match, staying idle, or disconnecting has documented in-game consequences: an AI stand-in commands an absent player's forces, the absence is scored against the player at the end of the match, and repeated or deliberate abandonment leads to temporary ranked locks of increasing length. Because the Game cannot distinguish a deliberate abandonment from a network failure, these consequences apply regardless of cause, and the Developer is not liable for any rating, reward, or record lost through a disconnection, whatever its reason.
Cheating, tampering with match results, or interfering with the Online Service may also result in a ban applied at the platform level (for example a Steam Game Ban) or in referral to law enforcement where the conduct is unlawful. Given a solo-developed service, there is no guaranteed formal appeals process, though you may contact the Developer through the published support channel to raise a dispute, and the Developer will review it in good faith as capacity allows.
6. Cosmetic Rewards; Fair Play; No Virtual Currency
Ranked progression may unlock cosmetic rewards (for example unit paint, pennants, and victory-screen flourishes). Cosmetic rewards are visual only. They do not affect unit statistics, vision, hitboxes, matchmaking, or any other gameplay-relevant property. Every match is intended to be an equal contest regardless of a player's rank, level, or cosmetics.
Ratings, XP, streaks, cosmetic unlocks, and records have no monetary value, cannot be redeemed, sold, or transferred, and are not your property. They are a license-limited feature of the Game that may be adjusted, reset (for example at a season reset), or removed. The Game contains no virtual currency, no loot boxes, no paid random items, and no in-game purchases.
7. Updates, Early Access, and Service Changes
- The Game is distributed in Steam Early Access. It is unfinished. Features, balance, content, mechanics, and interface may change substantially between updates; announced or available features may be altered, reworked, delayed, or removed; and saved data, records, and progress may not carry over between versions. Statements about planned content describe intentions, not commitments, and no purchase is made in reliance on them.
- The Developer may release updates at any time and may require you to install them to continue playing, particularly for online play, where all participants must run compatible versions for lockstep synchronization to work. Updates may install automatically through the distribution platform. The Developer is under no obligation to provide any particular update, feature, or amount of future content.
- The Online Service is provided on a best-effort basis and may be modified, suspended, or discontinued, in whole or in part, at any time. Where practical, the Developer will give reasonable advance notice of a permanent shutdown through the Game's normal channels (a patch note, a main-menu notice, or the Steam page). You have no claim to compensation for a change or discontinuation of the Online Service.
- Single-player and local play do not depend on the Online Service and are intended to keep working if the Online Service is modified or discontinued, but this is not guaranteed for any specific length of time.
8. User Content, Streaming, and Feedback
Call signs, chat messages, lobby names, and other material you create or transmit through the Game ("User Content") are yours, and you are solely responsible for them. You grant the Developer a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to store, relay, display, reproduce, and use your User Content as needed to operate, secure, moderate, and improve the Game and the Online Service, and to investigate and enforce these Terms. You represent that your User Content does not infringe anyone's rights, does not contain another person's private information, and complies with the Code of Conduct. The Developer may remove or refuse any User Content at any time without notice.
You may record, stream, and publish videos, screenshots, and commentary of the Game, including for monetized channels on video and streaming services, provided that you do not present the content as endorsed by the Developer, do not sell the Game's assets on their own, and do not use it to promote cheating or to harass others. The Developer may withdraw this permission for any content that violates these Terms. By playing online you understand that your call sign, actions, and chat messages may appear in other players' recordings and streams.
If you send the Developer suggestions, ideas, bug reports, or other feedback ("Feedback"), you agree that the Developer may use it freely and without restriction or compensation, and that Feedback is not confidential.
9. Third-Party Services and Software
The Game is distributed through Valve's Steam platform and may use Steam services (for example friends, lobbies, achievements, cloud saves, and networking) where available. Your use of Steam, including your Steam account, is separately governed by Valve's Steam Subscriber Agreement and Valve's Privacy Policy. Those documents apply in addition to these Terms wherever the Steam platform layer is involved, and nothing here limits rights or obligations you have under Valve's terms. The Developer is not responsible for Steam, for any other third-party service, or for any content or service the Game links to.
The Game includes open-source and other third-party software used under their own licenses, listed in the Third-Party Software notice and in the THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES file installed with the Game. Those licenses govern those components, and where they grant you rights, nothing in these Terms takes them away.
10. Purchases, Pricing, and Refunds
The Game is purchased through the distribution platform. Pricing, availability, payment, taxes, and refunds are handled by the platform under its own policies (for Steam, the Steam Refund Policy). The Developer does not process payments, does not hold your payment details, and cannot issue refunds directly. Regional pricing, sales, and bundles may change at any time without notice and without any adjustment of prior purchases.
11. Termination
These Terms are effective until terminated. Your license terminates automatically, without notice, if you breach any of these Terms. The Developer may also terminate or suspend your license or your access to the Online Service at any time for any breach, for suspected cheating or abuse, or if the Game is withdrawn from distribution. You may terminate at any time by uninstalling the Game. On termination you must stop using the Game and destroy any copies in your possession, subject to any separate rights you have through the distribution platform. Sections 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 19 survive termination.
12. Disclaimer of Warranties
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE GAME, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY ASSOCIATED ONLINE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS", "WITH ALL FAULTS", AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND THOSE ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. THE DEVELOPER DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE GAME WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, RUN ON ANY PARTICULAR HARDWARE, OPERATING SYSTEM, OR DRIVER, BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT ANY ONLINE SERVICE, MATCHMAKING RESULT, RATING, REWARD, OR SAVED DATA WILL BE ACCURATE OR PRESERVED, OR THAT THE GAME IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. THIS IS PARTICULARLY TRUE DURING EARLY ACCESS. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE FROM THE DEVELOPER CREATES ANY WARRANTY. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or conditions, so some of the above may not apply to you; in that case any implied warranty is limited to the minimum scope and duration the law allows. If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you have statutory rights regarding the conformity of digital content, and nothing in this section limits them.
13. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE DEVELOPER OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, SAVES, PROGRESS, RATINGS, OR REWARDS, DAMAGE TO OR FAILURE OF HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, OR NETWORKS, COST OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, PERSONAL INJURY, OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE GAME, ITS CONTENT, ANY ONLINE SERVICE, ANY OTHER PLAYER'S CONDUCT, OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF THE DEVELOPER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE DEVELOPER'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE GAME OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID FOR THE GAME IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR, IF YOU PAID NOTHING, TEN (10) US DOLLARS OR THE EQUIVALENT IN YOUR CURRENCY. THESE LIMITATIONS ARE AN ESSENTIAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN AND APPLY EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for gross negligence or willful misconduct where such exclusion is not permitted, and nothing here removes any consumer protection you cannot waive under the law of the country where you live.
14. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Developer and its licensors from and against any claims, demands, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to your User Content, your use or misuse of the Game or the Online Service, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or of the rights of any third party. The Developer may assume the exclusive defense of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate. This section does not apply to consumers to the extent the law of the country where they live does not permit it.
15. Health, Safety, and Assumption of Risk
The Game is entertainment software. It is not a simulator, trainer, or source of real-world military, tactical, safety, medical, or civil-defense information, and nothing in it may be relied on as such. You agree to read the Health and Safety Warning presented with these Terms, to follow its guidance, and to stop playing if you experience any discomfort. To the extent permitted by law, you assume the risks inherent in playing video games, including eye strain, repetitive-strain discomfort, and the effects of prolonged play, and you are responsible for your own hardware, its settings, its ventilation, and the volume at which you play.
16. Export Controls and Sanctions
The Game may be subject to export-control and sanctions laws. You agree to comply with them and represent that you are not located in, or a national or resident of, a country or territory to which the delivery of the Game is prohibited, and that you are not a person on any government denied-party list. You will not export, re-export, or transfer the Game in violation of those laws.
17. Governing Law and Disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of Canada and of the Canadian province in which the Developer resides (stated on request through the support channel), without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Before starting any formal proceeding, you agree to contact the Developer through the published support channel and to try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least thirty (30) days. Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be brought exclusively in the courts of that province, and you consent to their jurisdiction, except that the Developer may seek injunctive or other urgent relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property or the integrity of the Online Service. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU AND THE DEVELOPER EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND AGREE THAT DISPUTES WILL BE BROUGHT ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Any claim must be brought within one (1) year after it arises, where the law allows such a limit.
If you are a consumer, nothing in this section removes any consumer protection, mandatory forum, limitation period, or non-waivable right you have under the law of the country or province where you live, and where that law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts, you keep it.
18. Changes to These Terms
The Developer may revise these Terms from time to time, especially during Early Access. Material changes will be presented for re-acceptance before you next play, under an increased legal document version number; the gate that presents them shows the date of the change. If you do not accept the revised Terms, you may not continue to use the Game, and your remedy is to stop using it and seek any refund available under the distribution platform's policy.
19. General
- Entire agreement: these Terms (with the documents they reference) are the entire agreement between you and the Developer about the Game and replace any prior agreements or communications on the subject.
- Severability: if any provision is found unenforceable or invalid, it will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
- No waiver: the Developer's failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it or of any other provision.
- Assignment: you may not assign or transfer these Terms or your license; any attempt to do so is void. The Developer may assign these Terms to any successor or acquirer of the Game.
- No third-party beneficiaries: except for the Developer's licensors as to their own rights, these Terms create no rights in anyone else.
- Force majeure: the Developer is not responsible for any failure or delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including outages of the distribution platform, network providers, or hosting players, natural events, or government action.
- Notices and electronic communications: you agree that the Developer may give you notices by patch note, main-menu notice, the Game's Steam store page or community hub, or this gate, and that agreements made through this gate are electronic records with the same force as a signed writing.
- Language: these Terms are written in English. Any translation is for convenience only; the English text controls to the extent the law allows.
- Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.
20. Contact
Questions, support requests, bug reports, privacy requests, rights-holder notices, and disputes go through the support channel published on the Game's Steam store page and Steam community hub. That page always carries the current contact. Security researchers who find a vulnerability in the Game or its online components will find the disclosure contact in the security.txt file installed beside the Game's executable.