Terms of Service

The rules of the realm.

Effective 15 October 2026, updated 20 October 2026. These terms are an agreement between you and dataTamer LLC, the publisher of Steel Shall Speak (the game on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS, and this website). Creating an account means you accept them. How we handle your data is in the privacy policy.

Your account

You need an account to play. Give a real email address you can read, keep your password to yourself, and don’t share or sell your account. You are responsible for what is done with it. You must be at least 13 years old (16 where your country requires it for online services, 15 in France) or have a parent’s or guardian’s permission. One character per account for now.

How to behave

Steel Shall Speak is a shared world where players can fight, trade and talk. Fighting other characters is part of the game; making the game miserable for the people behind them is not. You agree not to:

• harass, threaten, bully or stalk other players, in chat, voice, names or anywhere else;
• use hateful, sexual or violent language or names aimed at real people or groups, or share illegal content;
• cheat: modify or tamper with the game, use bots or macros that play for you, exploit bugs on purpose, or attack our servers;
• scam other players, sell or buy game items, gold or accounts for real money, or pretend to be staff;
• break the law.

Use the game’s Help menu to report a player or a problem, and Block to stop seeing someone’s messages. Staff read every report.

What we may do

To keep the world fair and safe, staff may warn you, remove you from the world, rename an offensive character name, take back items gained by cheating or bugs, or suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. For serious or repeated breaches we may do so without warning. If you think we got it wrong, write to [email protected].

Your character and items

Your character, its gold and its items exist only inside the game and have no value outside it. You don’t own them; you have a personal right to use them in the game while these terms apply. In a world like this one things are lost: other players can kill your character and take what it carried, outside the protected places, as part of the game. We don’t restore what is lost through normal play.

Characters played by software

Not every character you meet is another person. Some are AI players: characters run by our own software, which walks, hunts, fights, trades with shops and talks like a player, using a language model to write what it says. They follow the same rules as everyone. Staff can tell them apart; in the game they look like any other player. What you say near them is handled as the privacy policy describes.

A game in development

The game is young and changes often. We may change, rebalance, add or remove features, places, items and rules, reset parts of the world, or pause the service to restart or update it. We try to warn players before a restart. The game is provided as it is: we don’t promise it will always be available or free of bugs.

Ending

You can stop playing and delete your account at any time from the game (Menu → Account → Delete account). We may end these terms with an account that breaks them, or if we stop running the game; we would tell players in advance where we can.

Responsibility

As far as the law allows, dataTamer LLC is not liable for indirect losses, or for losses caused by other players, by your device or connection, or by things outside our control. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have as a consumer that can’t be limited by contract.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the game grows. When we make an important change we will say so in the game or on this site before it takes effect; playing after that means you accept the new terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected]. Credits for the artwork and fonts used on this site are on the credits page; the game’s own models, sounds and music are credited in its asset ledger.