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GLIMTIDE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
Last updated: 29 October 2026
This End User License Agreement ("Agreement") is between you and XPLOIT FZE (licence 4425872.01, Business Centre, Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) ("we", "us"), the developer and publisher of Glimtide (the "Game"). It applies to the Game distributed through Steam, its updates and the online island it connects to.
By installing, launching or using the Game you accept this Agreement. If you do not accept it, do not install or use the Game.
1. OTHER TERMS THAT APPLY
- The Steam Subscriber Agreement governs your Steam account and your use of Steam. Valve Corporation is not a party to this Agreement and is not responsible for the Game.
- The Game shows the same shared island as glimtide.io. Our Terms of Service (https://glimtide.io/legal/terms) and Privacy Policy (https://glimtide.io/legal/privacy) also apply and are part of this Agreement. Where they differ from this Agreement for the Steam version of the Game, this Agreement prevails.
- This Agreement is published in English and Russian. If the two versions differ, the English version prevails.
2. LICENCE
We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to install and run the Game on devices you own or control, through your Steam account, for your own non-commercial entertainment. The Game is licensed to you, not sold. We and our licensors keep all rights that are not expressly granted to you in this Agreement.
3. WHAT YOU MAY NOT DO
Except where the law expressly allows it, you may not:
- copy, sell, rent, lend, sublicense or distribute the Game or any part of it;
- decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or modify the Game, or create derivative works based on it;
- remove or alter copyright notices, trademarks or other notices in the Game;
- use cheats, bots, scripts, automation or any other unauthorised software that interacts with the Game or our servers;
- use bugs to your advantage (please report them to us instead);
- attack, overload or try to get unauthorised access to our servers, other players' accounts or our admin tools;
- harass, threaten or deceive other players;
- sell, buy or hand over accounts, or use the Game for any commercial purpose without our written permission.
4. AN ONLINE GAME AND A LIVING WORLD
- The Game needs an internet connection and has no offline mode. It shows one island that lives all the time on our server and is shared by players on Steam and in the browser.
- Glims are born, grow, have families and die by the rules of the game. Seasons change, disasters happen, new mechanics arrive, and when the glims die out a new island begins. Because the world is alive, we do not promise that any glim, family, species or village will survive, or that any action will have the result you hoped for.
- Steam may download updates to the Game automatically. Some updates are required to keep playing.
5. YOUR ACCOUNT
- When you launch the Game, you are signed in with your Steam account. If you already have a glimtide.io account, you can link it, so that your glims and species are the same on Steam and on the site.
- You must be at least 13 years old, or older if the law of your country sets a higher age for using online services on your own. If you are under 18 (or under the age of majority where you live), you need the permission of a parent or guardian, and they must agree to any purchase.
- You are responsible for what is done from your account. If you think someone else is using it, write to us at hello@xploit.games.
- You can ask us to delete your account at any time by writing to hello@xploit.games.
6. BUYING THE GAME AND REFUNDS
- You buy the Game once through Steam. Everything in the Game is included: there are no in-game purchases, no virtual currency and nothing else to pay for.
- Steam sells the Game and handles its refunds under the Steam Subscriber Agreement and Steam's refund rules.
- The Game is an online world: what you do in it depends on the island, and a fed glim may still be caught by a predator, a new species may die out. That is how the Game works, not a defect.
7. NAMES AND WHAT YOU CREATE
- Other players see your display name, the names you give to species and glims, and what you do on the island. The chronicle of the island is public.
- Names must not be offensive, hateful, sexual or threatening. Do not pretend to be another person, a brand or our team, do not put anyone's personal data (yours included) into a name, and do not use names or marks that belong to someone else.
- We may rename, hide or remove anything that breaks these rules. You give us a free, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to store and show the names and creations you add to the Game, in the Game, in its chronicle and history and when we tell people about the Game, for as long as they are part of the Game.
8. AI-GENERATED CONTENT
Some illustrations in the Game were made with image generation tools and selected by us. Parts of the island's chronicle are retold automatically by an AI language model, without human review, and may contain mistakes. The model makes no decisions in the Game.
9. OWNERSHIP, VIDEOS AND STREAMS
The Game, including its code, art, sounds, texts and chronicle, belongs to XPLOIT FZE or to those who licensed it to us, and is protected by copyright and other laws. You are welcome to share screenshots, videos and streams of the Game, including monetised videos and streams, as long as you do not suggest that we endorse you.
10. PRIVACY
We handle your personal data as described in our Privacy Policy (https://glimtide.io/legal/privacy). In the Steam version we also receive from Steam your Steam ID and Steam profile name, which we may show as your display name. We never see or store your payment details.
11. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
- If you break this Agreement, we may warn you, rename or remove what you created, stop your account from acting in the world for a while or for good, or close it. A blocked account can still watch the island.
- You can stop using the Game at any time by uninstalling it.
- When this Agreement ends, your licence to use the Game ends too. Sections 3, 9, 13 and 15 continue to apply.
12. AVAILABILITY AND CHANGES TO THE GAME
We work to keep the Game running, but it can be unavailable for maintenance, updates or failures. After a failure we may restore the world from a recent backup, and the latest events, including your actions, can be lost. We may change, add or remove features and rules of the Game at any time.
13. DISCLAIMER AND LIABILITY
- As far as the law allows, the Game is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
- As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits or lost data, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.
- Nothing in this Agreement limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or your rights as a consumer under the law of your country.
14. CHANGES TO THIS AGREEMENT
We may update this Agreement. The date of the last change is shown at the top. If a change is important, we will tell you in the Game or on the Game's Steam page before it takes effect, and Steam may ask you to accept the new version. If you keep using the Game after that, you accept the new Agreement.
15. LAW AND DISPUTES
This Agreement is governed by the law of the United Arab Emirates as applied in the Emirate of Sharjah, and disputes go to the courts of Sharjah. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country where you live and may also go to its courts. Before going to court, please write to us at hello@xploit.games: most problems are solved faster that way.
16. CONTACT
XPLOIT FZE
Business Centre, Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
E-mail: hello@xploit.games
Website: https://glimtide.io
Last updated: 29 October 2026
This End User License Agreement ("Agreement") is between you and XPLOIT FZE (licence 4425872.01, Business Centre, Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) ("we", "us"), the developer and publisher of Glimtide (the "Game"). It applies to the Game distributed through Steam, its updates and the online island it connects to.
By installing, launching or using the Game you accept this Agreement. If you do not accept it, do not install or use the Game.
1. OTHER TERMS THAT APPLY
- The Steam Subscriber Agreement governs your Steam account and your use of Steam. Valve Corporation is not a party to this Agreement and is not responsible for the Game.
- The Game shows the same shared island as glimtide.io. Our Terms of Service (https://glimtide.io/legal/terms) and Privacy Policy (https://glimtide.io/legal/privacy) also apply and are part of this Agreement. Where they differ from this Agreement for the Steam version of the Game, this Agreement prevails.
- This Agreement is published in English and Russian. If the two versions differ, the English version prevails.
2. LICENCE
We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to install and run the Game on devices you own or control, through your Steam account, for your own non-commercial entertainment. The Game is licensed to you, not sold. We and our licensors keep all rights that are not expressly granted to you in this Agreement.
3. WHAT YOU MAY NOT DO
Except where the law expressly allows it, you may not:
- copy, sell, rent, lend, sublicense or distribute the Game or any part of it;
- decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or modify the Game, or create derivative works based on it;
- remove or alter copyright notices, trademarks or other notices in the Game;
- use cheats, bots, scripts, automation or any other unauthorised software that interacts with the Game or our servers;
- use bugs to your advantage (please report them to us instead);
- attack, overload or try to get unauthorised access to our servers, other players' accounts or our admin tools;
- harass, threaten or deceive other players;
- sell, buy or hand over accounts, or use the Game for any commercial purpose without our written permission.
4. AN ONLINE GAME AND A LIVING WORLD
- The Game needs an internet connection and has no offline mode. It shows one island that lives all the time on our server and is shared by players on Steam and in the browser.
- Glims are born, grow, have families and die by the rules of the game. Seasons change, disasters happen, new mechanics arrive, and when the glims die out a new island begins. Because the world is alive, we do not promise that any glim, family, species or village will survive, or that any action will have the result you hoped for.
- Steam may download updates to the Game automatically. Some updates are required to keep playing.
5. YOUR ACCOUNT
- When you launch the Game, you are signed in with your Steam account. If you already have a glimtide.io account, you can link it, so that your glims and species are the same on Steam and on the site.
- You must be at least 13 years old, or older if the law of your country sets a higher age for using online services on your own. If you are under 18 (or under the age of majority where you live), you need the permission of a parent or guardian, and they must agree to any purchase.
- You are responsible for what is done from your account. If you think someone else is using it, write to us at hello@xploit.games.
- You can ask us to delete your account at any time by writing to hello@xploit.games.
6. BUYING THE GAME AND REFUNDS
- You buy the Game once through Steam. Everything in the Game is included: there are no in-game purchases, no virtual currency and nothing else to pay for.
- Steam sells the Game and handles its refunds under the Steam Subscriber Agreement and Steam's refund rules.
- The Game is an online world: what you do in it depends on the island, and a fed glim may still be caught by a predator, a new species may die out. That is how the Game works, not a defect.
7. NAMES AND WHAT YOU CREATE
- Other players see your display name, the names you give to species and glims, and what you do on the island. The chronicle of the island is public.
- Names must not be offensive, hateful, sexual or threatening. Do not pretend to be another person, a brand or our team, do not put anyone's personal data (yours included) into a name, and do not use names or marks that belong to someone else.
- We may rename, hide or remove anything that breaks these rules. You give us a free, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to store and show the names and creations you add to the Game, in the Game, in its chronicle and history and when we tell people about the Game, for as long as they are part of the Game.
8. AI-GENERATED CONTENT
Some illustrations in the Game were made with image generation tools and selected by us. Parts of the island's chronicle are retold automatically by an AI language model, without human review, and may contain mistakes. The model makes no decisions in the Game.
9. OWNERSHIP, VIDEOS AND STREAMS
The Game, including its code, art, sounds, texts and chronicle, belongs to XPLOIT FZE or to those who licensed it to us, and is protected by copyright and other laws. You are welcome to share screenshots, videos and streams of the Game, including monetised videos and streams, as long as you do not suggest that we endorse you.
10. PRIVACY
We handle your personal data as described in our Privacy Policy (https://glimtide.io/legal/privacy). In the Steam version we also receive from Steam your Steam ID and Steam profile name, which we may show as your display name. We never see or store your payment details.
11. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
- If you break this Agreement, we may warn you, rename or remove what you created, stop your account from acting in the world for a while or for good, or close it. A blocked account can still watch the island.
- You can stop using the Game at any time by uninstalling it.
- When this Agreement ends, your licence to use the Game ends too. Sections 3, 9, 13 and 15 continue to apply.
12. AVAILABILITY AND CHANGES TO THE GAME
We work to keep the Game running, but it can be unavailable for maintenance, updates or failures. After a failure we may restore the world from a recent backup, and the latest events, including your actions, can be lost. We may change, add or remove features and rules of the Game at any time.
13. DISCLAIMER AND LIABILITY
- As far as the law allows, the Game is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
- As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits or lost data, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.
- Nothing in this Agreement limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or your rights as a consumer under the law of your country.
14. CHANGES TO THIS AGREEMENT
We may update this Agreement. The date of the last change is shown at the top. If a change is important, we will tell you in the Game or on the Game's Steam page before it takes effect, and Steam may ask you to accept the new version. If you keep using the Game after that, you accept the new Agreement.
15. LAW AND DISPUTES
This Agreement is governed by the law of the United Arab Emirates as applied in the Emirate of Sharjah, and disputes go to the courts of Sharjah. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country where you live and may also go to its courts. Before going to court, please write to us at hello@xploit.games: most problems are solved faster that way.
16. CONTACT
XPLOIT FZE
Business Centre, Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
E-mail: hello@xploit.games
Website: https://glimtide.io