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PACTBOUND — DISCLAIMERS, PRIVACY & TERMS
Last reviewed: September 2026 · Beta 0.2 · Read before you play.
CONTENT WARNING · ADULTS ONLY (18+)
Pactbound is a dark-fantasy roleplaying game intended for players aged
18 or older, or the local age of majority where you live, whichever is
higher. The game shows a content notice on first launch that restates
this.
The game contains, or plans to contain:
- Themes of sacrifice, cost, grief, and moral consequence. The core
mechanic is bargaining away parts of yourself (health, lifespan,
memories, relationships). Play depicts loss.
- Sensuality and mature relationships. Berserk / Game-of-Thrones-tier
content: brothels, chains, gothic decadence, romance including
polyamorous or same-sex framing, and painted nudity. No depiction of
explicit sexual acts, and no sexual content involving minors under
any circumstance.
- Depiction of violence, blood, body horror, ritual imagery. Painted,
not photorealistic. Combat and death are permitted narrative
outcomes, including permanent character death.
- Villain paths and morally repugnant player choices. Becoming the
villain is a fully supported path. The game will not moralise about
the paths you pick, but it will record them.
- Themes that may be distressing: loss of memory, forgetting a loved
one, self-harm as bargain-cost (abstracted, not depicted), oath-
breaking, betrayal, mourning.
If any of the above is not for you, please do not buy the game. There
is no shame in it.
AI-GENERATED CONTENT NOTICE
Most of Pactbound's visual assets — character portraits, creature
illustrations, region maps, and location art — were generated using
AI image models, specifically Black Forest Labs' Flux Dev via
Replicate. All prompts, curation, iteration, and creative direction
are the work of the game's author, and a number of final images are
edited or painted over by hand.
Where AI art is used, we affirm:
- All creature designs, character archetypes, region names, lore, and
narrative writing are original to Pactbound. The game does not
reproduce copyrighted characters or settings from other properties.
- Every generated image is reviewed and approved by the developer
before it enters the game. There is no automated content filter
standing between generation and publication; the standard is human
review, not a model's safety setting. Images are held to the same
line as the rest of the game's content: no explicit sexual acts, no
depictions of minors in sexual contexts, no depictions of real
people. An asset that doesn't meet that line is discarded before it
is ever added, not published and pulled later.
- No user data of any kind is used as AI training input, because the
game accepts no user uploads and collects no user data.
- Nothing in the game is generated while you play. All assets are
produced before the game is built.
If you believe an AI-generated asset in Pactbound infringes your
copyright, character likeness, or trademark, please contact us (see
Contact) and we will remove or replace it promptly.
PRIVACY POLICY
Short version: Pactbound does not collect, transmit, or store any
personal data about you on any server. All game progress is stored on
your own computer and, if you have Steam Cloud enabled, synced through
Steam Cloud under your own Steam account. The developer never sees it.
Long version:
- What the game stores, on your device: your character choices,
alignment axes, pact history, codex progress, memory/bond ledger, and
UI preferences, in save files under the game's application data
folder. If Steam Cloud is enabled for Pactbound in your Steam
settings, Steam synchronises those files between your own machines.
That synchronisation is Steam's service under Valve's privacy policy;
the developer has no access to it.
- What the game does NOT store, anywhere: your name, email address, IP
address, geolocation, device fingerprint, or any account information.
Pactbound has no accounts of its own and no server-side database of
players.
- Third-party services at runtime: Steam only, for the features Steam
provides (achievements, cloud saves, overlay). Fonts and all images
are bundled with the game. The game makes no runtime calls to any
other third-party service. Development-time services (Replicate) are
used to generate art before the game is built and never receive
player data.
- Analytics: none.
- Your rights: you can delete your save data at any time by deleting
the game's save files and, if applicable, its Steam Cloud data from
your Steam settings. Nothing remains on any developer server, because
there is none. If we later add anything that collects data, we will
publish an updated policy first.
GDPR / CCPA note: because the developer collects no personal data,
these frameworks create no obligations on the developer's side at this
time. If you have a specific concern, contact us and we will respond
in good faith.
TERMS OF USE
- Pactbound is offered as-is for personal, non-commercial
entertainment, licensed to you through Steam under the Steam
Subscriber Agreement.
- You may not resell, redistribute, reverse-engineer for the purpose
of publishing an unofficial version, or scrape and republish the
game's content.
- You may screenshot, stream, or record your playthroughs, monetised
or otherwise, provided you credit "Pactbound".
- You may not use Pactbound art, prose, or design elements to train AI
models without written permission.
- The game is in Early Access and will change; content, systems and
saves may be altered between versions.
- Nothing in these terms limits your rights under applicable consumer-
protection law.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The name "Pactbound", the setting "Aeslin", all creature designs
(Ashkin, Vareth, Herald, Ysra, Vareska, Torrhen, Iravel, Kaerith,
Threnody, Kairon, Rhogan, and every later addition), all region names,
all origin prose, all mechanical designs including Resonance, Pact
Forms, and the Equivalent-Exchange framework are original creative
work and are © 2026 the game's author. All rights reserved.
Nothing in Pactbound is intended to reproduce or reference any pre-
existing copyrighted property. Similarities to other dark-fantasy
franchises (Souls, Berserk, Fallout, Mass Effect, Sunless Sea) are
stylistic tribute, not asset reuse.
Fonts used are licensed for embedding via their respective providers.
CONTACT · DMCA · TAKEDOWN
For legal notices, DMCA takedown requests, copyright concerns, or
accessibility questions, please contact the game's author through the
Pactbound Steam Community Hub. Good-faith requests will receive a
substantive response within a reasonable time.
Please include: (1) the specific asset or content in question, (2) the
basis for your claim, (3) your contact information, and (4) a
statement made in good faith that the use is not authorized.
Last reviewed: September 2026 · Beta 0.2 · Read before you play.
CONTENT WARNING · ADULTS ONLY (18+)
Pactbound is a dark-fantasy roleplaying game intended for players aged
18 or older, or the local age of majority where you live, whichever is
higher. The game shows a content notice on first launch that restates
this.
The game contains, or plans to contain:
- Themes of sacrifice, cost, grief, and moral consequence. The core
mechanic is bargaining away parts of yourself (health, lifespan,
memories, relationships). Play depicts loss.
- Sensuality and mature relationships. Berserk / Game-of-Thrones-tier
content: brothels, chains, gothic decadence, romance including
polyamorous or same-sex framing, and painted nudity. No depiction of
explicit sexual acts, and no sexual content involving minors under
any circumstance.
- Depiction of violence, blood, body horror, ritual imagery. Painted,
not photorealistic. Combat and death are permitted narrative
outcomes, including permanent character death.
- Villain paths and morally repugnant player choices. Becoming the
villain is a fully supported path. The game will not moralise about
the paths you pick, but it will record them.
- Themes that may be distressing: loss of memory, forgetting a loved
one, self-harm as bargain-cost (abstracted, not depicted), oath-
breaking, betrayal, mourning.
If any of the above is not for you, please do not buy the game. There
is no shame in it.
AI-GENERATED CONTENT NOTICE
Most of Pactbound's visual assets — character portraits, creature
illustrations, region maps, and location art — were generated using
AI image models, specifically Black Forest Labs' Flux Dev via
Replicate. All prompts, curation, iteration, and creative direction
are the work of the game's author, and a number of final images are
edited or painted over by hand.
Where AI art is used, we affirm:
- All creature designs, character archetypes, region names, lore, and
narrative writing are original to Pactbound. The game does not
reproduce copyrighted characters or settings from other properties.
- Every generated image is reviewed and approved by the developer
before it enters the game. There is no automated content filter
standing between generation and publication; the standard is human
review, not a model's safety setting. Images are held to the same
line as the rest of the game's content: no explicit sexual acts, no
depictions of minors in sexual contexts, no depictions of real
people. An asset that doesn't meet that line is discarded before it
is ever added, not published and pulled later.
- No user data of any kind is used as AI training input, because the
game accepts no user uploads and collects no user data.
- Nothing in the game is generated while you play. All assets are
produced before the game is built.
If you believe an AI-generated asset in Pactbound infringes your
copyright, character likeness, or trademark, please contact us (see
Contact) and we will remove or replace it promptly.
PRIVACY POLICY
Short version: Pactbound does not collect, transmit, or store any
personal data about you on any server. All game progress is stored on
your own computer and, if you have Steam Cloud enabled, synced through
Steam Cloud under your own Steam account. The developer never sees it.
Long version:
- What the game stores, on your device: your character choices,
alignment axes, pact history, codex progress, memory/bond ledger, and
UI preferences, in save files under the game's application data
folder. If Steam Cloud is enabled for Pactbound in your Steam
settings, Steam synchronises those files between your own machines.
That synchronisation is Steam's service under Valve's privacy policy;
the developer has no access to it.
- What the game does NOT store, anywhere: your name, email address, IP
address, geolocation, device fingerprint, or any account information.
Pactbound has no accounts of its own and no server-side database of
players.
- Third-party services at runtime: Steam only, for the features Steam
provides (achievements, cloud saves, overlay). Fonts and all images
are bundled with the game. The game makes no runtime calls to any
other third-party service. Development-time services (Replicate) are
used to generate art before the game is built and never receive
player data.
- Analytics: none.
- Your rights: you can delete your save data at any time by deleting
the game's save files and, if applicable, its Steam Cloud data from
your Steam settings. Nothing remains on any developer server, because
there is none. If we later add anything that collects data, we will
publish an updated policy first.
GDPR / CCPA note: because the developer collects no personal data,
these frameworks create no obligations on the developer's side at this
time. If you have a specific concern, contact us and we will respond
in good faith.
TERMS OF USE
- Pactbound is offered as-is for personal, non-commercial
entertainment, licensed to you through Steam under the Steam
Subscriber Agreement.
- You may not resell, redistribute, reverse-engineer for the purpose
of publishing an unofficial version, or scrape and republish the
game's content.
- You may screenshot, stream, or record your playthroughs, monetised
or otherwise, provided you credit "Pactbound".
- You may not use Pactbound art, prose, or design elements to train AI
models without written permission.
- The game is in Early Access and will change; content, systems and
saves may be altered between versions.
- Nothing in these terms limits your rights under applicable consumer-
protection law.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The name "Pactbound", the setting "Aeslin", all creature designs
(Ashkin, Vareth, Herald, Ysra, Vareska, Torrhen, Iravel, Kaerith,
Threnody, Kairon, Rhogan, and every later addition), all region names,
all origin prose, all mechanical designs including Resonance, Pact
Forms, and the Equivalent-Exchange framework are original creative
work and are © 2026 the game's author. All rights reserved.
Nothing in Pactbound is intended to reproduce or reference any pre-
existing copyrighted property. Similarities to other dark-fantasy
franchises (Souls, Berserk, Fallout, Mass Effect, Sunless Sea) are
stylistic tribute, not asset reuse.
Fonts used are licensed for embedding via their respective providers.
CONTACT · DMCA · TAKEDOWN
For legal notices, DMCA takedown requests, copyright concerns, or
accessibility questions, please contact the game's author through the
Pactbound Steam Community Hub. Good-faith requests will receive a
substantive response within a reasonable time.
Please include: (1) the specific asset or content in question, (2) the
basis for your claim, (3) your contact information, and (4) a
statement made in good faith that the use is not authorized.