Version 3.0 · Effective 14 November 2026
https://helbreathevolution.com/terms

HB Evolution is an independently operated online role-playing game. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by the publisher or rights holder of any other game, and nothing on this page or in the game should be read as a claim that it is.

In these terms, "we" and "us" means the team that develops and operates HB Evolution, and "the service" means the game client, the launcher, the game servers, the website and the accounts you use with them.

When you create an account you are asked to accept these terms and the Rules, and an account cannot be created without accepting them. By downloading, installing or using the launcher or the game client, or by using the website, you also accept them. If you do not accept them, do not install the client and do not create an account.

If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only use the service with the consent of a parent or legal guardian.

The Rules published at https://helbreathevolution.com/wiki/rules are part of these terms. Breaking the Rules is breaking these terms.

These terms are written in English and translated into other languages for convenience. If a translation differs from the English text, the English text prevails, to the extent the law allows.

We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to install and run the launcher and the game client for one purpose: to connect to, and play on, the official HB Evolution servers.

The client is licensed, not sold. No ownership transfers to you. Everything not expressly granted here is reserved, and this licence ends automatically if you break section 4 or if your account is terminated.

4.1 What this section protects
This section protects the work created by the HB Evolution team: the artwork, animation, visual effects, audio, data, text, systems and code that we made for this game. That work represents thousands of hours of effort, and it is not free for the taking.

4.2 The assets are protected by a technical measure
This artwork is distributed inside an encrypted asset container format of our own, under keys we control. That container is a technological measure protecting a copyrighted work. Breaking it, decrypting it, dumping what is inside it, or writing, publishing or sharing the tools, keys or instructions that let someone else do so, is a separate wrong from copying the artwork: in many jurisdictions circumventing such a measure is unlawful on its own, whether or not a single asset is ever redistributed afterwards. We treat it that way, and we will pursue the tool and the person who published it, not only whoever used it.

4.3 What you may not do
Without our prior written permission, you may not:

1. Extract assets. Extract, rip, dump, capture or otherwise recover artwork, animation, audio, data or text from the client, from its asset containers, from its memory, or from its graphics pipeline — including by means of frame or texture capture tools.
   
2. Reverse engineer the asset format. Reverse engineer, decrypt, decompile or circumvent the asset container format used by the client, its encryption, its keys, or any technical measure that protects it; or write, publish, distribute or share tools, keys, documentation or instructions that do so.
   
3. Redistribute our work. Copy, publish, mirror, upload, sell or otherwise distribute the work described in 4.1, in whole or in part, in original or modified form, whether or not for profit.
   
4. Use our work on other servers. Use the work described in 4.1 in any other game server, client, emulator, mod, product or service, public or private.
   
5. Remove attribution. Remove, alter or obscure copyright notices, watermarks or other authorship markings, including markings that are not visible during normal play.

Recolouring, rescaling, re-encoding, cropping, mirroring, running an asset through a filter or an upscaler, or otherwise modifying it does not create a new work free of our rights, and does not make any of the above permitted. Neither does using our artwork as the input or the training material for a further derivation. The test is whether our expression is recognisable in the result, not how many passes it went through on the way.

4.4 How we identify our work, and what we do about it
We keep a dated version-control history of our work, with content hashes and independently recorded timestamps. Part of the artwork additionally carries authorship markings that are not visible during normal play and that survive copying, repackaging and extraction; the scheme is deliberately not published.

Where we find our artwork on another server, in another client, in a mod, in an asset pack or offered for sale, we will act on it — including takedown notices to hosts, distribution platforms, payment providers and search engines, and any other remedy available to us. We would much rather be asked first: permission is free to request, and it is sometimes granted.

Nothing in this section restricts uses that the law permits regardless of a rights holder's wishes — interoperability rights, quotation, fair use or fair dealing where those apply. This section states our position; it does not, and cannot, override the law. Fan art, screenshots, streams and videos of you playing are welcome and are not what this section is about.

You are responsible for your account and for keeping its password secret. Do not share, sell, trade or transfer accounts. We may suspend or close an account that is used to break these terms, to harm other players, or to attack the service.

We store the minimum needed to run the game and the account-recovery flow. We may also use your email to send occasional news about the game; every one of those emails has a one-click unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing does not stop account emails such as password recovery. The distribution and website servers keep access logs, including IP addresses, to keep the service working and to detect abuse.

Chat translation uses a third-party AI service (Anthropic). When a chat message is translated, because you clicked its translation mark or because it was translated for you automatically, the text of that message and of up to four earlier lines of the same conversation is sent to that service to obtain the translation. This includes whispers and group chats. No account name, email address or IP address is sent with it.

You may not use cheats, bots, automation, memory editors, modified clients, packet manipulation or exploits, and you may not attack, overload or attempt to gain unauthorised access to our servers or to other players' accounts. Abusing a bug instead of reporting it is treated the same as cheating.

You must also follow the conduct rules set out in the Rules: no harassment, hate speech or discrimination, no threats, no scams, no impersonating Staff, and no publishing other people's private information. Whether something is a breach is decided by us, on the basis of our server logs and records.

The game is free to play and offers an optional Cash Shop. In-game currency, coins, items and characters are part of the service. They have no monetary value outside the game, they are not your property, and they cannot be exchanged for money. If you purchase coins, you are paying for a limited licence to use them inside the game; the purchase is final except where the law or the store you purchased through grants you a right to a refund.

Content, prices and game balance can change, and virtual items can be adjusted, removed or reset as part of running a live game.

If your account or character is warned, muted, restricted, suspended, banned or has items removed for breaking these terms, you are not entitled to any refund, compensation or restoration of coins, items, characters, progress or playing time, whether they were earned in the game or purchased.

If you dispute or reverse a payment with your bank, card issuer, PayPal or a store (a chargeback) instead of contacting us first, we may suspend the account until the matter is resolved and remove the coins and anything obtained with them. A fraudulent chargeback leads to a permanent ban.

Trades, loans and deals between players are made at your own risk. We are not responsible for them, and we do not support or restore coins, items or characters obtained from third-party sellers.

We moderate the service to keep it fair and safe for everyone. Moderation decisions are made by us, at our discretion, guided by the Rules and by the context, intent, history and advantage involved in each case.

Depending on the case, we may: warn you; mute or restrict your chat; restrict your access to events, maps or features; remove or reset items, gold, coins, Enemy Kills, titles, rankings or characters; rename a character or guild; suspend an account temporarily; or ban it permanently. A sanction can apply to every account, character, device and connection that we reasonably link to the same person. We may skip steps for serious offences, and we may act without prior notice when that is needed to protect the service or other players.

Our server logs and records are the authoritative record of what happened in the game.

You may appeal a sanction once, through the process described in the Rules. The decision on the appeal is final within the service. To the extent the law allows, moderation decisions, including a sanction that is later reduced or lifted, do not give rise to any compensation.

Creating or using another account to get around a sanction is itself a breach of these terms and may turn a temporary sanction into a permanent one for every account involved.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you break these terms, if your account is used to harm other players or the service, if the law requires it, or if we reasonably need to in order to protect the service. You may stop using the service at any time by uninstalling the client. When your access ends, the licence in section 3 ends with it and you must delete your copy of the client.

HB Evolution is a live game. We may change, suspend or discontinue the service, in whole or in part, at any time. If the service ends, coins, items and characters end with it and are not refunded, except where the law requires otherwise.

The service is provided as is, without warranty of any kind. We do not promise that the game will be available, uninterrupted, free of bugs, or that progress and data will never be lost. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from your use of the service. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, for loss of data, virtual items, progress or profits, or for anything caused by other players, outages, attacks or events outside our reasonable control. Our total liability for all claims relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

You agree to compensate us for, and hold us harmless from, any claim, loss, cost or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your breach of these terms or of the law, or from your use of the service in a way these terms do not allow.

If you have a complaint, contact us first (section 15) and give us sixty days to try to resolve it before you start any proceedings.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Argentine Republic, and any dispute relating to the service is subject to the courts with jurisdiction over our domicile in the Argentine Republic. Where the mandatory consumer protection law of your country of residence gives you rights that these terms cannot remove, including the right to bring proceedings where you live, those rights are not affected.

To the extent the law allows, disputes are resolved individually: you agree not to bring or take part in a class or representative action against us, and any claim relating to the service must be brought within one year after it arose.

If any part of these terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the rest remains in force, and that part is applied to the greatest extent allowed. If we do not enforce a provision, that does not waive it. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another person or entity, such as a company set up to operate the game; you may not transfer yours. These terms and the Rules are the entire agreement between you and us about the service.

We may update these terms and the Rules. The current version and its effective date are always shown at the top of this page. When we make a significant change, we may ask you to accept the new version in the game, and you will not be able to keep playing without accepting it. Continuing to use the service after a change also means you accept the updated terms; the version in force is the one published here.

To request permission, to report infringement of our work, or to ask about anything stated on this page, write to legal@helbreathevolution.com, or reach us on Discord (https://discord.gg/SgHbjudnGx).