Terms of service

Last updated 16 October 2026

These terms cover your use of Pixel Quarry, a game maker run by Pixel Quarry ("we", "us"). By making an account or using the editor you agree to them. If something here is unclear, email [email protected].

Your account

You need an account to buy a plan. Keep your password to yourself and tell us if you think someone else has used your account. One account is for one person.

Plans and payment

  • The free version can be used without an account. Paid plans are Creator and Studio, billed monthly or yearly.
  • You buy plans from Pixel Quarry. Payments are processed by Stripe, and your card details go straight to them, never to us. Prices are in US dollars, and sales tax or VAT may be added at checkout depending on where you live.
  • Plans renew automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel. You can cancel any time from Billing and invoices on your account page. Your plan stays on until the end of the period you have paid for.
  • If you switch plans part way through a period, the difference is charged or credited straight away.
  • We may change prices in future. We will tell you before a change affects your plan, and it will only apply from your next renewal.

Your work

Everything you make with Pixel Quarry belongs to you, including the levels, characters, art, sounds and games. Projects are stored on your own device. Paid plans can also keep copies in the cloud, up to the storage their plan includes. We cannot recover a project that was deleted from your device and was never saved to the cloud, so please keep backups.

If your paid plan ends, your cloud saves are kept for 90 days so you can download them or pick a plan again. After that we may delete them.

Games you export are yours to share, give away or sell, including commercially, and you keep all the money you make from them. You do not owe us anything for games you sell. They keep working if your plan ends.

The games page

Members on Creator and Studio can publish games to the games page, and anyone with an account can rate and comment on them.

  • You still own every game you publish. By publishing it you give us permission to host it, show it, and let people play it on Pixel Quarry for free, for as long as it is published. Take it down or delete it and that permission ends.
  • Only publish games you made, or have the right to share. That includes the art, music and sounds in them.
  • Games, names, profiles and comments must not be illegal, hateful, sexually explicit, or made to harass or trick people. Games must not try to collect people's passwords or personal details, or do anything harmful to their device.
  • We may take down games or comments that break these rules, or that people report and we agree with, and close accounts that keep doing it.
  • If your paid plan ends, games you already published stay up. To publish updates or put more games live you need a plan again.
  • Your profile name, handle, short bio, ratings averages and comments are public.

Fair use

Please do not use Pixel Quarry to make or share anything illegal, to harass people, or to break someone else's rights. Do not try to get around plan limits, resell access, or attack the service. We may close accounts that do.

The service

We work hard to keep Pixel Quarry running and improving, but it is provided as it is. Features can change over time. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost work, lost profits or indirect losses. Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under consumer law where you live.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms we will update the date at the top. If a change is important we will email you first.