Terms of Service
What Bathysia is, what we ask of you, and what we owe you in return — the whole agreement, without padding it out to look more serious than it is.
01 The short version
Bathysia is free to play, forever, for the whole base game. Play fair, don’t automate your way past discovery, and don’t sell or share your account. If you ever pay for something, you’re buying cosmetics, time, or content — never an advantage another pilot couldn’t also reach by playing. We’ll try hard not to lose your progress; if a bug ever does, we’re sorry in advance and we’ll do what we reasonably can.
02 What Bathysia is
Bathysia is a browser game about piloting a drone into deep water, discovering creatures, and building an expedition. The core game is free, with no signup wall — ever. You can play an entire session as a guest with no account at all, covered in full in our Privacy Policy. Some content may later be reached only through play — levels, quests, storyline — rather than sold as an unlock; nothing in the base game is a paywall dressed up as a feature.
03Accounts & fair play
- One account, one person — don’t share, sell, or trade accounts.
- Keep your sign-in email accurate; it’s the only way back into a cloud save.
- No cheating: no save editing, no macro or bot automation beyond what the game’s own auto-drones legitimately do for you, no exploiting bugs for material advantage instead of reporting them.
- No harassment, hate speech, or abuse toward other pilots in any social feature we ship.
- We can suspend or remove an account for clear abuse of the above — and we’ll always tell you why if we do.
04 Purchases
There is no live shop yet — see the Shop preview for the catalogue we’re planning. These rules are written ahead of time so they’re settled before the first purchase, not backfilled afterward.
- Everything for sale will be a cosmetic, a convenience, or unlockable content — never a stat, and never an advantage a free pilot can’t also reach by playing.
- Payments run through Stripe on our own domain, or through the storefront of whichever platform you’re playing on (a portal like CrazyGames, for instance).
- Refunds follow that processor’s own policy — Stripe’s or the platform’s, whichever one took the payment. We don’t run a separate in-house refund desk.
05Progress, bugs & no promises
We test before we ship, but this is a small, actively-developed game, and bugs happen. If one costs you progress, we’re genuinely sorry, and we’ll do what’s reasonably possible to make it right — but we can’t promise every loss is recoverable. Anything you’ve actually paid for is the one thing we treat as sacred: if a purchase is ever lost to a bug, restoring it is our priority.
06 No warranty
Bathysia is provided as-is, the way most small games honestly are. We don’t promise it will be available every minute of every day, free of every bug, or fit for any purpose beyond “a deep-sea game you can play in a browser.” We’re not liable for damages beyond what the law in our governing jurisdiction requires of us.
07 Governing law
Bathysia doesn’t have a registered legal entity or a named home jurisdiction yet — this build is still pre-launch. This section will name both, and the governing law that applies to these terms, before accounts or purchases go live.
08 Changes to these terms
We’ll update this page as the game grows — new systems, a real shop, real purchases — and post the date each time. Material changes get a note in the news log too.
09 Contact
Questions about these terms go to privacy@bathysia.com.