Ascendant Gaming LLC Terms of Service

Effective date: August 22, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Ascendant Gaming LLC websites, games, apps, accounts, cloud saves, support tools, tournaments, guilds, purchases, ads, events, and related services ("Services"). Ascendant Gaming LLC is referred to as "Ascendant Gaming," "we," "our," or "us."

Individual games may publish supplemental game-specific terms. If supplemental terms conflict with these Terms for that game, the supplemental terms control for that game.

By using our Services, creating an account, playing our games, joining online features, watching rewarded ads, or making purchases, you agree to these Terms.

If you do not agree, do not use our Services.

Eligibility

You must meet the minimum age required by the applicable game, platform, store, and law in your location. Aetherforge is intended only for players age 18 or older. Ascendant Gaming games are not directed to children.

Contact

Ascendant Gaming LLC
Website: https://ascendantgamingllc.com
Support: support@ascendantgamingllc.com

Games Covered

These Terms cover Ascendant Gaming LLC websites and current release-track games, including:

• Shapebound Lab
• Aetherforge
• Anomaly Ascension
• Monsterbound
• Dungeonbound
• Pursuit Protocol

They also cover shared Ascendant Gaming services used by those games, including account sign-in, cloud saves, support tickets, in-game mail, live events, tournaments, guild systems, purchases, rewarded ads, and player safety tools.

Our Services

Ascendant Gaming publishes games and related services, including Shapebound Lab, Aetherforge, Anomaly Ascension, Monsterbound, Dungeonbound, Pursuit Protocol, account systems, cloud saves, support tools, missions, events, tournaments, guilds, leaderboards, in-game mail, rewarded ads, virtual items, cosmetics, and in-app purchases.

Our Services change over time. We add, remove, rebalance, reset, disable, and modify features, rewards, prices, items, currencies, events, tournaments, guilds, shops, cosmetics, ads, and other content as part of live operation.

Accounts

Account access uses supported sign-in providers, including Apple Sign In and Google Sign In where supported by the game or platform. Account features include cloud saves, support tickets, cross-device progress, purchases, tournaments, guilds, server-backed rewards, and account recovery tools.

You are responsible for keeping your account secure. Do not share login credentials. You may not sell, transfer, rent, share, or trade accounts unless we explicitly allow it.

We restrict one active play session per account where needed to protect cloud saves, rankings, purchases, and fair play. When an account is opened on another device, the previous session can be locked, paused, disconnected, or required to sign in again.

Virtual Items And Currencies

Our games include virtual currencies, virtual items, cosmetics, upgrades, rewards, event items, tournament items, guild items, mail rewards, and similar content.

Virtual items:

• Have no cash value.
• Are not money, property, securities, stored value, or financial instruments.
• Cannot be sold, traded, transferred, redeemed, or exchanged outside our Services unless we explicitly allow it.
• Can be changed, rebalanced, limited, removed, reset, or replaced as part of updates, bug fixes, live events, anti-cheat actions, or service changes.

You receive a limited, revocable, non-transferable license to use virtual items inside the applicable game while that game and your account are available.

Purchases

Our games offer in-app purchases through Apple App Store and Google Play. Purchases include currency packs, ad-removal entitlements, event passes, milestone passes, bundles, cosmetics, and other game content.

All purchases are processed by the platform store. Store billing, refunds, taxes, payment methods, family controls, and purchase restrictions are governed by Apple, Google, or the relevant platform.

We validate purchases through our backend before granting rewards or entitlements. We refuse, delay, reverse, or review rewards when a purchase is invalid, refunded, revoked, duplicated, suspicious, pending, or not tied to the correct account.

Consumable packs, bundles, event passes, sale items, and other purchasable content have limits, time windows, cycle limits, account restrictions, and eligibility requirements.

Contact support with your player ID, platform, approximate purchase time, and store receipt/order information when a purchase does not grant correctly.

Ads And No Ads

Our games use Google AdMob for rewarded ads. Rewarded ads are ads players choose to watch in exchange for an in-game reward.

No Ads purchases remove the ad-watch requirement for eligible ad reward buttons, but do not remove store messages, platform messages, cross-promotion, legal notices, support messages, account notices, service messages, or reward cooldowns.

Ad availability is not guaranteed. Ads can fail to load or become unavailable because of region, age, consent, network, inventory, platform rules, account status, fraud controls, or service conditions.

Fair Play, Anti-Cheat, And Security

You agree not to:

• Modify game clients, save files, memory, network requests, or backend communication.
• Use bots, scripts, automation, packet tools, unauthorized emulators, fake purchases, fake ad completions, exploits, duplicate claims, or unauthorized third-party tools.
• Abuse bugs, manipulate clocks, bypass cooldowns, spoof devices, tamper with cloud saves, submit false scores, or interfere with leaderboards/tournaments.
• Attempt to access admin tools, live configuration tools, player data, backend endpoints, private systems, or another player's account.
• Disrupt other players, guilds, support systems, tournaments, events, or Services.

We investigate suspicious activity and remove rewards, reverse progression, disable features, suspend accounts, ban accounts, remove rankings, remove guild access, block purchases, or take other action when fair play or service integrity is at risk.

Social Features And Conduct

Our Services include shared features such as guilds, chat, rankings, support tickets, player names, guild names, applications, leaderboards, and tournaments.

You may not submit names, chat, support messages, guild content, or other content that is:

• Harassing, threatening, hateful, abusive, discriminatory, sexually explicit, or violent.
• Illegal, infringing, fraudulent, misleading, or designed to scam others.
• Sharing private personal information, passwords, payment information, or confidential data.
• Spam, advertising, solicitation, impersonation, or disruptive behavior.

We moderate, remove, restrict, or report content and accounts that violate these Terms.

Tournaments, Events, Guilds, And Live Systems

Tournaments, events, missions, guild rewards, rankings, mail rewards, and timed systems use server time, eligibility rules, entry limits, reward limits, ranking rules, event passes, league rules, promotion/demotion rules, and anti-cheat checks.

We correct or reverse rankings, rewards, claims, guild contributions, tournament results, event results, or account progress when we detect bugs, abuse, outages, invalid scores, incorrect configuration, exploit behavior, or security issues.

Support

Support is provided through in-game tickets, email, website forms, and other methods we choose. Support is not guaranteed to be immediate. We require your player ID, account email, device/platform details, and relevant game information to investigate issues.

Do not send passwords, full payment card numbers, or sensitive personal information through support tickets.

Intellectual Property

Ascendant Gaming Services, including game names, logos, code, art, UI, systems, text, icons, balance data, characters, cosmetics, game mechanics, and related content, are owned by Ascendant Gaming LLC or its licensors.

You may not copy, distribute, sell, reverse engineer, create derivative works from, or commercially exploit our Services except as allowed by law or by written permission from us.

Availability, Updates, And Beta Environments

Our Services require updates to continue working. We operate production, test, beta, dev, limited-release, and internal environments separately.

We do not guarantee that websites, games, servers, cloud saves, purchases, ads, support, events, tournaments, guilds, or other Services will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free. Outages, maintenance, platform issues, network problems, bugs, and third-party service failures can occur.

Beta, test, and preview features can be incomplete, reset, removed, or changed without compensation.

Termination

You may stop using our Services at any time. We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to accounts, games, or features if you violate these Terms, create risk for other players or the Services, or if we stop operating part or all of a Service.

If your account is terminated for violation of these Terms, you may lose access to cloud saves, virtual items, purchases, guilds, tournaments, rankings, support history, and other account features.

Disclaimers

The Services are provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent allowed by law, we disclaim warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, availability, accuracy, and error-free operation.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so some of these terms may not apply to you.

Limitation Of Liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Ascendant Gaming LLC will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, including lost profits, lost data, lost progress, lost virtual items, service interruption, or unauthorized access.

To the fullest extent allowed by law, our total liability for any claim related to the Services will not exceed the amount you paid to us for Ascendant Gaming purchases in the 6 months before the claim, or $100, whichever is greater.

Changes To These Terms

We update these Terms when our Services, laws, platform requirements, or business operations change. We update the effective date and notify users through the website, in-game mail, store listings, or other reasonable methods.

Continued use of the Services after changes means you accept the updated Terms.