Terms of service

Last updated 11 November 2026

These terms are the agreement between you and the team that makes and runs AlleyWay Brawlers ("we", "us"). By creating an account or playing, you agree to them and to our privacy policy. If you don't agree, please don't play. Questions: support@alleywaybrawlers.com.

1. Your account

• You must be at least 13 to make an account. If you're under the age where you can agree to these terms where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to them for you.
• Use an email address or Steam account you own, keep your password secret, and don't share, sell or trade your account. You're responsible for what happens on it.
• Pick a username that isn't offensive, hateful or pretending to be someone else. We may change or remove one that is.

2. The game

We give you a personal, non-commercial, non-transferable licence to download and play AlleyWay Brawlers. The game is in active development: cards, rules, balance, rewards and features will change, and we may need to reset or adjust progress to fix bugs or exploits. We'll try to keep the game online, but it may sometimes be unavailable, and we may end the service; if we do, we'll give notice in the game first.

3. Cards, currencies and purchases

• Karat, Contraband, Dust, cards, packs and other in-game items are a licence to use them in the game. They aren't your property, have no value in real money, can't be exchanged for money, and can't be sold, traded or moved outside the game.
• In the auction house you can sell cards to other players for Karat. A card you list leaves your collection until the auction ends; a bid holds your Karat until you're outbid; a card with a Buy Now price can be bought outright until the first bid; sales are final. Listing costs a fee and each sale pays one, and prices have a lowest and highest amount by rarity. We may undo trades, or remove cards and Karat gained, that break these terms.
• We may change, rebalance or retire cards and items (for example to keep the game fair).
• Contraband bought with real money is delivered to your account straight away, and payments are handled by Stripe (in the Steam version, by Valve through your Steam Wallet). Purchases are final and aren't refundable once delivered, except where the law where you live gives you a right to a refund. If something goes wrong with a purchase, contact us.

4. Playing fair

Don't:

• cheat, use bots or scripts, or modify, reverse-engineer or tamper with the game or its traffic to get an advantage;
• exploit bugs (please report them to us instead);
• use more than one account to move cards, Karat or other items between them, for example through the auction house;
• harass, threaten, abuse or spam other players, or send hateful, sexual or illegal content in messages or usernames;
• attack, overload or try to break into our servers or other players' accounts;
• buy, sell or trade accounts, cards or currencies for real money.

If you break these terms we may remove items or currency gained unfairly, or suspend or delete your account.

5. Our content

The game, its code, art, cards, music and names belong to us or to those who license them to us. You're welcome to stream, record and share videos and screenshots of yourself playing, as long as you don't suggest they're official.

6. Ending

You can stop playing and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, or if we have to by law.

7. Liability

The game is provided "as is". As far as the law allows, we aren't responsible for indirect losses or for losing in-game items or progress, and our total responsibility to you is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the problem. Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have as a consumer under the law where you live.

8. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the game changes. We'll update the date above, and for significant changes we'll tell you in the game before they apply. Playing after that means you accept the new terms.