This document has two parts. Part A is a plain language summary written for Players who want to understand the rules without reading the full text. Part B is the full Fair Play & Community Guidelines, which is the authoritative version and the one that controls in the event of any disagreement between the two parts.

This is the short version. If anything below is unclear, the full Guidelines in Part B are the controlling document.

Stick War: Saga is built on fair competition between Players of comparable skill. Play your own Account, play to win, treat people with respect, and do not break the game. Almost every rule below comes down to one of those four things.

If you accept a queue, play the match. Leaving in the queue, on the loading screen, or in the opening seconds of a match because you saw an opponent or matchup you did not like counts as Dodging. Doing it once because your power went out is fine. Doing it every time you face a tough opponent is not. Repeat Dodging will result in queue restrictions, Elo loss, and, for persistent offenders, removal from the Leaderboard.

No modified clients, no automation tools, no scripts, no macros, no memory editors, no software that reads from or writes to the game's files or network traffic. No farming a bug for an in-game advantage after we have acknowledged it, or after you reasonably know that the behavior is unintended. No playing on or distributing unreleased content.

Finding a bug and reporting it is welcome. Abusing it once you have found it is Cheating.

No win-trading. No throwing matches to raise a friend's Elo or matchmaking difficulty. No coordinated forfeits. No tanking a tournament match on purpose. Both sides of a fixed match are sanctioned, not only the winner.

Your Account is for you. One person, one Account. Do not log into anyone else's Account, do not allow anyone to log into yours, do not buy or sell Accounts, do not gift or lend Accounts, and do not advertise any of the above.

Important. If you share your Account and the person you shared it with breaks the rules, that is on you. "My brother used it," "I sold the Account to someone else," and "my friend was the one cheating" are not accepted as defenses. The Account Holder is responsible for every action that takes place on the Account, without exception. If you hand your Account to another person, you accept full responsibility for whatever they do with it.

No paying another person to raise your rank. No raising another person's rank for them. No queueing into a friend to lose on purpose. No smurfing on a low-rank Alt to farm weaker Players. No using a second Account to scout opponents. No using a second Account to play while your primary is suspended. No occupying multiple positions on the same Leaderboard.

If we detect a single person running multiple Accounts on the Top 100 1v1 or Top 100 2v2 Leaderboard, all Alt Accounts will be frozen and their Elo will be reset. Your primary Account is the one with the longest verified play history. Every other Account associated with you is treated as an Alt.

Do not lose on purpose to be matched against weaker opponents. Indicators include obvious surrender patterns, deliberately useless builds across multiple matches, and going AFK immediately after queue acceptance. Genuinely struggling, learning a new strategy, or returning after a long absence is not De-ranking. Tanking on purpose is.

No profanity, slurs, or hate speech. No sexual or graphically violent content. No impersonation of staff or other Players. No advertising or promotional links. No doxing. If we find a prohibited username, the Account will be renamed without notice. Serious cases, such as slurs, explicit material, or the doxing of another Player, will receive an additional Sanction on top of the rename.

If you join a match, play it. Idling, bot-style farming, and persistent inactivity are prohibited. A single disconnect or a one-time real-life interruption is not a violation. A pattern of joining matches and contributing nothing is.

If your Account is suspended or banned, you do not get to come back on a new Account, a VPN, a spoofed device, or another person's Account. Confirmed evasion extends the original Sanction, applies the same Sanction to the evading Account, and may convert a temporary suspension into a permanent ban.

No slurs, hate speech, or sustained personal abuse directed at other Players, members of staff, or community moderators, in any space connected to Stick War: Saga. Threats of real-world violence, and the sharing of another Player's personal information without consent, may result in an immediate permanent ban without prior warning.

No NSFW, defamatory, or deliberately misleading content using Stick War: Saga assets, characters, or branding. No suggesting an official partnership or endorsement where none exists. No commercial use of our assets without a license from us. Ordinary fan content, streams, replays, and non-commercial fan art are not restricted.

If you gain access to unreleased content, beta builds, internal documents, or any other material identified by us as confidential, do not publish, share, or sell it. It does not matter whether you obtained it lawfully through a closed beta or unlawfully through a leaked build. Serious leaks may result in a permanent ban and, where applicable law permits, legal action.

If your conduct, in or out of the game, is, in our reasonable judgment, harmful to the community, to competitive integrity, or to the Stick War: Saga brand, we may act on it even where the rule is not listed above. This is not a license to punish honest mistakes or ordinary disagreement. It is there to address new kinds of bad behavior that the specific rules do not yet cover.

We rely on Player reports to identify and act on violations of these Guidelines. If you encounter conduct that you believe breaks the rules, you may submit a report through any of the following channels.

Every report must include the following. Reports that are missing this information cannot be processed.

We require verifiable evidence to act on a report. Acceptable evidence includes, without limitation:

Evidence must be clear, consistent, and directly related to the reported conduct. Edited, cropped, obscured, or otherwise unclear submissions may not be accepted.

Common reasons a report is declined:

We cannot act on hearsay. Every action we take must be supported by objective and verifiable proof.

Reports and their underlying evidence are internally linked. Where a piece of evidence is found to be inconsistent, unverifiable, or contradictory, it may be classified as invalid; other reports that rely on the same evidence may, as a result, also be classified as invalid. If your report was declined, the most useful thing to do before resubmitting is to review your own evidence carefully and confirm that it actually supports what you are claiming. Independent verification of your own evidence will often clarify why a report was not accepted.

Depending on the nature, severity, and frequency of the violation, the Sanction may be any of the following:

Permanent bans issued for Cheating, Match Manipulation, evasion of a prior ban, or serious harassment are not subject to appeal. Other Sanctions may be appealed once, within 30 days of issuance, through the channels listed above. Appeals are reviewed by a member of our staff who was not involved in the original decision. Filing an appeal does not, by itself, suspend the Sanction.

If anything in this summary is unclear, the full Guidelines in Part B below are the controlling version. You can reach us through any of the channels in the reporting section above.

Stick War: Saga is built around fair competition between Players of comparable skill, and around a community in which everyone can participate without fear of harassment, manipulation, or exploitation. The behavior of a small number of individuals, through Cheating, Account abuse, Match Manipulation, or other prohibited conduct, can damage that environment for everyone. The purpose of these Fair Play & Community Guidelines (the "Guidelines") is to codify the rules, practices, and consequences designed to protect the Players, the integrity of the Leaderboard, and the wider Stick War: Saga community.

These Guidelines are a binding agreement between you and Max Games Studios ("Max Games," "we," or "us"). You accept and agree to be bound by these Guidelines by (a) creating or continuing to use a Stick War: Saga Account, (b) participating in any ranked, casual, or tournament play, or (c) accessing any Stick War: Saga service, including matchmaking, replays, Leaderboards, and community channels operated by us. Continued play after the Effective Date listed at the top of this document constitutes acceptance of this version.

You accept and agree that we have the right to (a) monitor compliance with these Guidelines, our Terms of Service, and any tournament-specific or event-specific rules; (b) investigate, or have our representatives investigate, any suspected violation; and (c) where appropriate, impose any of the Sanctions described in Section 4. We may act without prior notice where the conduct in question is ongoing or where notice would compromise an investigation.

These Guidelines apply to every person who creates or uses a Stick War: Saga Account, including ranked Players, casual Players, Leaderboard participants, tournament competitors, content creators streaming or recording the game, and any person interacting in official community channels operated by Max Games. In these Guidelines, each such person is referred to as a "Player."

These Guidelines apply to all forms of play in Stick War: Saga, including 1v1 ranked, 2v2 ranked, deathmatch, casual matches, tournaments organized or sanctioned by Max Games, and any future competitive mode introduced by Max Games. Where a specific tournament publishes additional rules, those rules apply in addition to, and not in place of, these Guidelines.

These Guidelines apply to conduct that occurs on or after the Effective Date listed at the top of this document. Conduct that occurred before the Effective Date is governed by the prior version of the Guidelines (December 29, 2025). Max Games reserves the right to act on serious prior violations that come to its attention after the Effective Date, particularly where the conduct involved Cheating, Match Manipulation, or repeated rule-breaking.

These Guidelines apply in-game, in any official Stick War: Saga community channel operated by Max Games, and to conduct outside the game where that conduct (a) is directed at another Player or member of staff, (b) involves the misuse of an Account, an exploit, or confidential material, or (c) is reasonably likely to damage the integrity of Stick War: Saga competition or the reputation of Max Games.

For the purposes of these Guidelines, the following capitalized terms have the meanings set out below.

Players must, at all times, conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the spirit of fair competition. Players are required to play their own Account, to play to win, to treat opponents and members of staff with respect, and to follow the instructions of any tournament official or community moderator acting on behalf of Max Games.

Players may not leave or disconnect from the queue, from the loading screen, or from the opening of a match for the purpose of avoiding a particular opponent, map, matchup, or anticipated outcome. The matchmaker treats every accepted queue as a commitment to play.

Repeated Dodging will result in escalating penalties, beginning with short queue restrictions and progressing through Elo loss, ranked suspensions, and, for persistent offenders, removal from the Leaderboard. Genuine technical failures, such as a crash, a power loss, or a forced disconnect, are not Dodging. However, a pattern of "technical issues" that consistently appears against particular opponents or on particular maps will be treated as Dodging.

Cheating, as defined in Section 2.5, is strictly prohibited. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Players may not:

Honest discovery and good-faith reporting of a bug is not a violation of this rule. Continued exploitation of the bug after discovery, or sharing the exploit with the intent that other Players use it competitively, is.

Players may not engage in Match Manipulation, as defined in Section 2.5. This includes, without limitation, win-trading, throwing a match to lower a friend's matchmaking difficulty or to raise their Elo, coordinating forfeits across multiple matches, and intentionally losing in tournaments. Match Manipulation will be treated as one of the most serious categories of violation and is grounds for a permanent ban of every Account involved, on both sides of the arrangement.

Each Account is intended for use by one natural person, the Account Holder. Players may not:

3.5.1 Responsibility of the Account Holder. The Account Holder is responsible for all activity that takes place on their Account at all times, without exception. Where an Account is found to be shared, lent, sold, or otherwise used by a person other than the Account Holder, and a violation of these Guidelines occurs on that Account, the Sanction is applied to the Account Holder and to the Account itself. Statements such as "I gave my Account to a friend and they cheated on it," "my brother used my Account and got banned," "the buyer of the Account broke the rules," or any equivalent, are not a defense, will not be accepted, and will not reduce the Sanction. By sharing or transferring an Account in violation of this rule, the Account Holder accepts full responsibility for everything that happens on it.

3.5.2 Additional consequences. Where an Account is found to be shared, traded, or sold, the Account may additionally be reset, suspended, or permanently banned, and any in-game items or progression on that Account may be removed without compensation.

Boosting, as defined in Section 2.5, is prohibited in every form. This rule applies to the person being boosted, to the person performing the boost, to any person acting as an intermediary, and to any person knowingly queueing into and losing to a boosting party.

Use of Alt Accounts to manipulate matchmaking is likewise prohibited. This includes, without limitation:

3.6.1 Detection and enforcement of Alt Accounts. Where Max Games detects that a single person controls multiple Accounts on the Leaderboard, all Alt Accounts will be frozen and their Elo will be reset. The Player's primary Account will be identified as the Account with the longest verified play history; every other Account associated with that person will be treated as an Alt Account for the purposes of this rule. Where the detection involves Boosting, ban evasion, or Match Manipulation, additional Sanctions under Sections 3.4, 3.5, or 3.10 may apply.

Players are required to compete at their genuine skill level. De-ranking, as defined in Section 2.5, is prohibited, whether performed on a primary Account or an Alt Account. Indicators of De-ranking include unusual loss patterns, intentional early surrenders, deliberately ineffective unit compositions sustained across multiple matches, and AFK behavior immediately after queue acceptance.

A Player who is genuinely struggling, learning a new strategy, or returning after a long absence is not De-ranking. The rule targets intentional underperformance, not honest losses.

A Stick War: Saga username is the primary identifier of a Player and is visible on every match screen, every Leaderboard position, and every report. Usernames must not contain:

Where Max Games identifies a prohibited username, the Account may be renamed without prior notice. Repeated offenses, or particularly serious content such as slurs, explicit material, or the doxing of another Player, may result in a Sanction in addition to the rename.

Players who join a match are expected to participate in it. AFK behavior, deliberate inactivity, idling for in-match rewards, and bot-style farming patterns are all prohibited. A single disconnect or a genuine real-world interruption is not a violation. A sustained pattern of joining matches and contributing nothing is.

A Player who is subject to a Sanction may not attempt to circumvent that Sanction. Prohibited evasion includes, without limitation:

A confirmed evasion attempt extends the original Sanction, applies the same Sanction to the evading Account, and, where the original Sanction was a temporary suspension, may convert that Sanction into a permanent ban.

Players may not direct harassment, threats, slurs, hate speech, or sustained personal abuse at any other Player, any member of staff, or any community moderator. This rule applies in any community channel operated by or associated with Max Games, and in any other forum where the conduct can reasonably be linked to a Player's Stick War: Saga Account. Threats of real-world violence, and the sharing of another Player's personal information without consent, are treated with particular seriousness and may result in an immediate permanent ban without prior warning.

Players may not (a) create, distribute, or promote NSFW, defamatory, or deliberately misleading content using Stick War: Saga assets, characters, or branding; (b) use Stick War: Saga branding in a manner that suggests official endorsement, sponsorship, or partnership where none exists; or (c) commercialize Stick War: Saga assets without a license from Max Games. Ordinary fan content, replays, streams, and non-commercial fan art are not restricted by this rule.

Players who, by any means, gain access to unreleased campaign content, internal balance documents, unannounced features, beta builds, or any other material identified by Max Games as confidential, may not publish, share, sell, or otherwise distribute that material. This rule applies whether the Player obtained the material lawfully, for example through a closed beta, or unlawfully, for example through a leaked build. Serious leaks may result in a permanent ban and, where applicable law permits, legal action.

Max Games may take action against an Account at its discretion where a Player's conduct, in or out of the game, is, in its reasonable judgment, harmful to the community, to the integrity of competition, or to the Stick War: Saga brand, even where that conduct is not specifically described above. This provision is intended to address novel forms of misconduct that the specific rules in Sections 3.1 through 3.13 do not yet cover. It is not intended to allow Sanctions for ordinary disagreement, criticism, or honest mistakes.

Max Games relies on Player reports to identify and act on violations of these Guidelines. If you encounter conduct that you believe breaks these Guidelines, you may submit a report through any of the following channels.

To ensure a report can be properly reviewed, it must include clear and complete information. Reports that lack detail or evidence may not be processed. A complete report includes:

Reports must clearly state what rule or behavior is being violated. Vague reports, reports without evidence, and reports that consist only of accusations will not be processed.

The following violations may be reported through the channels in Section 4.1. The full definitions and standards for each are set out in Section 3.

Max Games requires verifiable evidence to take action on any report. Acceptable evidence includes, without limitation:

Evidence must be clear, consistent, and directly related to the reported conduct. Edited, cropped, obscured, or otherwise unclear submissions may not be accepted.

A report may be declined for any of the following reasons:

Max Games cannot take action based on hearsay. Every report must be supported by objective and verifiable proof.

Reports and their underlying evidence are internally linked in Max Games' systems. Where a particular piece of evidence is found to be inconsistent, unverifiable, or contradictory, that evidence may be classified as invalid; other reports that rely on the same evidence may, as a result, also be classified as invalid.

If you believe your report was declined incorrectly, carefully review your own evidence before resubmitting. Make sure that what you are providing is logical, consistent, and does not contradict itself, and that the situation you are reporting can be clearly supported by what you have on hand. Independent verification of your own evidence will often clarify why a report was not accepted.

Where Max Games opens an investigation, the Players involved are expected to cooperate honestly, to preserve relevant evidence such as replays, and not to obstruct, mislead, or retaliate. Max Games may draw an adverse inference from a failure to cooperate or from the destruction of evidence.

Depending on the nature, severity, and frequency of the violation, the Sanction may be any one or more of the following:

Where Alt Accounts, Boosting, or Match Manipulation have distorted the Top 100 1v1 or Top 100 2v2 Leaderboard, Max Games may roll affected positions back to a previous state. The depth of the rollback depends on the scale of the violation: a single Alt Account may produce a localized adjustment, while a coordinated network of Accounts may require a rollback of the Top 30 or larger. Affected Players will not receive compensation for Elo or position lost as a result of a Sanction issued against them.

In setting the appropriate Sanction, Max Games will consider, among other things, the seriousness of the conduct, whether it was deliberate, reckless, or negligent, the harm caused to other Players or to the integrity of competition, whether the Player has prior violations, whether the Player cooperated with the investigation, and whether the Player took prompt steps to remedy the harm.

Permanent bans issued for Cheating, Match Manipulation, evasion of a prior ban, or serious harassment are not subject to appeal. Other Sanctions may be appealed once through the channels listed in Section 4.1, within thirty (30) days of issuance. Appeals are reviewed by a member of Max Games staff who was not involved in the original decision. Submitting an appeal does not, by itself, suspend the Sanction.

Max Games may, at its discretion, publish a summary of a Sanction where doing so serves the community's interest in understanding how these Guidelines are enforced. Where Max Games does, the summary will describe the conduct and the Sanction in general terms; it will not include personal information beyond the Account name unless the Player has consented or unless disclosure is required by law.

These Guidelines apply in addition to the Stick War: Saga Terms of Service, the Max Games Privacy Policy, the rules of any platform on which Stick War: Saga is distributed (including the Google Play, Apple App Store, and Steam terms), and any tournament-specific rules. Where a conflict arises, the more restrictive provision applies.

Max Games may amend these Guidelines from time to time. Material amendments will be announced through official community channels at least seven (7) days before they take effect, except where an immediate amendment is necessary to address an ongoing harm to the community. The version number and Effective Date at the top of this document indicate the version in force.

The English-language version of these Guidelines is the authoritative version. Translations are provided for convenience only. Where a translation conflicts with the English version, the English version controls.

If any provision of these Guidelines is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.

Questions about these Guidelines, requests for clarification, and appeals may be submitted through any of the channels listed in Section 4.1.

Stick War: Saga and all related trademarks are property of Max Games Studios. This document takes effect on May 25, 2026 and supersedes all prior versions.