Shunter Terms of Use

Effective date: 9 November 2026

These Terms explain the conditions for using Shunter, the railway puzzle game provided by Bare Games LLC, Alabama, United States (“Bare Games”, “we” or “us”). They cover the game and the optional Shunter services we make available.

Please read these Terms before using the game or an optional service. If you have a question or do not agree with a proposed change, contact us. Nothing in these Terms takes away consumer rights or remedies that the law does not allow us to limit.

1. Playing Shunter and family use

Shunter is a general puzzle game. Ordinary play does not require an in-game account, an age question or a purchase. Campaign play, earned customization and the available Daily puzzles work offline in the installed Android build. Undo, Restart and the included teaching remain free.

The browser playtest needs a download and private tester sign-in; an offline browser launch is not guaranteed. Optional online features, store transactions and additional downloads need a connection.

If you are not old enough to enter a contract where you live, ask a parent or legal guardian to review these Terms with you and approve any purchase or optional online service for which their permission is required. This does not create a parent-account requirement for ordinary local play. Payment approval and agreement to these Terms do not replace any separate privacy consent required by law.

2. Your permission to use the game

We give you a personal permission to install and play the copies of Shunter supplied to you through an authorized source, on devices you own or control, subject to these Terms and applicable store usage rules. Family-sharing and restoration rights offered by your store continue to apply.

The game’s software, artwork, music, name and other content belong to Bare Games or their respective licensors. You may share your own gameplay screenshots and videos, including ordinary monetized reviews or streams, provided you do not imply our endorsement or distribute extracted game assets as a separate product. Third-party and open-source components retain their own licenses.

Do not sell or redistribute unauthorized copies, remove ownership notices, or use the game to infringe someone else’s rights. This restriction does not limit uses, accessibility adaptations, interoperability or other activities that applicable law permits despite a contract term.

3. Saves and optional online services

Local progress, coins, owned items and preferences are stored on your device or in your browser. Clearing storage, uninstalling or losing a device can remove an unlinked save. Updating the same installation is different from deleting it. We aim to preserve compatible saves, but cannot promise to recover a local save that no longer exists.

Where supported, cloud saves use your own Google Play Games or iCloud account under that provider's terms. Check Settings → Cloud save for availability and status. Bare Games does not provide a Shunter recovery-key account or read your platform cloud copy. A store purchase or private tester sign-in is separate from that cloud save. Keep account and wallet access credentials private; never include them in support messages or public screenshots.

Online availability, recovery and cross-device use depend on the features actually offered in your version. A purchase made through one store does not automatically include a second purchase or a transferable entitlement on every other platform.

You can stop using an optional service and use its available deletion controls. Local data, the anonymous purchase wallet, platform cloud saves and retired private-test collections have separate removal processes. Removing the app does not automatically erase those remote records or cancel a store transaction. See the data-deletion page for the relevant controls.

4. Coins, items, rewards and offers

Coins and cosmetic items are for use within Shunter. They are not a bank balance and cannot be traded, sold to other players or exchanged for money outside the game. This does not limit a refund or other remedy required by law or offered through the relevant store.

The game shows the price and contents before a coin unlock or optional purchase. Rewards and offers have the conditions shown with them, including any eligibility, once-only claim or expiry rules. Replaying a puzzle or repeating a request does not create another entitlement to a reward already received. Previewing an item does not purchase or equip it.

We may adjust future rewards, prices and content as the game develops. A change does not authorize us to charge you again for an item you already own or remove unrelated earned funds. If a change affects paid content, we will respect your purchase rights and provide any notice or remedy required by law.

5. Optional purchases, delivery and refunds

Real-money purchases are optional. Where an approved store offer is available, its confirmation screen identifies the product, local price and any applicable charges before you authorize payment. Use only a payment method you are entitled to use, with any required family approval.

Current private playtest: public real-money sales are not enabled. A separately arranged platform test may use a sandbox or license-test checkout. Availability in a private test is not a promise of public release or of future products.

Store payments and delivery may remain pending while approval or verification completes. If an item has not arrived, use the game’s available restore or support route rather than purchasing it again. Keep your store receipt; do not send payment-card details or recovery credentials.

Refunds, cancellations, unauthorized charges and defective or undelivered content are handled under applicable law and the relevant store’s rules. There is no blanket “no refunds” policy in these Terms. You can contact our support team, use Google Play’s refund help, or, for purchases made through Apple, Apple’s purchase-support service.

If a purchase is refunded or reversed, the coins or items supplied by that purchase may be adjusted accordingly. Unrelated earned coins and independently owned items remain yours. Deleting a save or purchase wallet is separate from requesting a refund and does not make a previously consumed purchase claimable again.

6. Privacy, reminders and optional advertising

The Shunter privacy notice explains local saves, optional services, support data and the service providers used in relevant builds. It is separate from these Terms.

Optional reminders require your choice and can be turned off. The current Android reminders are scheduled on your device. Where analytics or advertising is offered in a future approved version, we will explain the feature and obtain any choices or consent required before activation. Accepting these Terms does not opt you into analytics, advertising or reminders.

Live rewarded advertising is not available in the current private playtest. Any separately arranged demo-ad test must be identified as a test. Declining an optional ad does not take away free Undo, Restart or ordinary campaign play.

7. Fair use and service security

Do not forge payment receipts, obtain paid items through fraud, attack our services, interfere with another player’s access, distribute malicious software through a support channel, or bypass private tester access restrictions. Using hints, walkthroughs, accessibility tools or supported game features is not a breach of this rule.

We may correct a demonstrably duplicated or fraudulent grant and restrict an optional service when reasonably necessary to address serious misuse, a security risk or a legal requirement. Where lawful and practical, we will explain the reason and give you a way to contact us about an error. An online restriction does not authorize arbitrary deletion of your separate offline progress or removal of unrelated purchases, and does not cancel your legal remedies.

8. Private builds, updates and availability

Private builds are test versions and may contain bugs, unfinished features or interruptions. Test access may end. We may provide updates for compatibility, safety or improvements and may change or retire optional services for reasonable operational reasons.

We will give notice of significant planned service changes where practical and respect any obligations concerning paid content, support, updates, refunds or other consumer remedies. These Terms do not promise an indefinite test, a particular release date or perpetual online hosting. A test-version label does not remove rights the law gives you.

9. Our responsibility to you

We remain responsible where applicable law makes us responsible, including for required standards of quality, accurate descriptions and remedies for faulty digital content. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.

To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for losses that neither you nor we could reasonably have foreseen, or for business losses arising from a game supplied for personal use. This does not excuse our own breach of contract or negligence where the law requires a remedy. Contact us if the game has caused a problem so we can investigate.

10. Changes, questions and disputes

We will date changes to these Terms. For a material change affecting an ongoing optional service, we will provide reasonable notice before it takes effect and obtain a further agreement where required. We will not apply a change retroactively to take away a right from an earlier purchase.

If there is a problem, you can contact us and we will try to resolve it. Contacting us first is optional and does not shorten a legal time limit. These Terms do not impose compulsory arbitration, waive collective claims or take away access to courts, regulators or consumer remedies available under applicable law. Mandatory protections and court rights where you live remain available.

If a provision is unenforceable, it applies only to the extent legally permitted; the rest of the Terms continues where it can fairly do so. Store usage rules apply to store transactions and downloads. For an App Store version supplied under Apple’s standard end-user license agreement, that agreement also applies to the application license; these Terms do not replace it with a custom Apple EULA.