Terms and Conditions

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• Grant. With a paid license you receive a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Terra Engine editor on the number of seats of your edition and to create and release your own games with it. A seat is one person, who may install the editor on their own computers.
• Editions. Indie: 1 seat. Studio: up to 5 seats within one company or team, with priority support. There is no revenue limit and no revenue share: how much your games earn never changes your edition or your price.
• Pro license and engine changes. The Pro edition costs EUR 4,999 once plus EUR 1,500 per year for updates, the Pro toolkit and support. With a Pro license key you may change and develop the engine itself on our foundation, for your own games, and use the command interface and Pro toolkit. The engine, changed or not, may not be passed on. Indie and Studio do not include the command interface or the Pro toolkit and do not allow rebuilding the engine; only adjustments necessary for use, such as fixing bugs, are allowed as far as the law permits. The yearly fee starts with the purchase and renews each year. You can cancel it at any time, effective at the end of the current year. You then keep the engine version and your changes from your last paid year, but updates, the Pro toolkit and support end.
• License keys. Your license keys belong to your seats and may not be shared. We may deactivate keys that are passed on or misused.
• Updates. Indie and Studio include 12 months of updates from purchase. The version you have received may be used without time limit. Further updates are available through an optional yearly renewal at a fixed price: EUR 399 (Indie), EUR 1,199 (Studio). If you renew later, you receive the version that is current at that time.
• Quest Helper. While your updates run, Indie includes Quest Helper Solo, Studio and Pro include Quest Helper Team with 5 seats, each with unlimited projects. After that, the normal Quest Helper subscription applies.
• Your games. The games you create belong to you. We take no share of your game revenue and claim no rights to your content.
• Trial. The free trial contains the full editor without export and is for evaluation only. Games made with it may not be released.
• Restrictions. You may not resell, rent, sublicense or redistribute the Terra Engine or parts of it, and you may not share your license with people outside your seats. Reverse engineering is only allowed where the law permits it regardless of this agreement.
• Third-party content. Art assets are not included. Third-party packs you use stay under their own licenses, which you must comply with.
• Warranty. For consumers, the statutory warranty for digital content applies. For businesses, the warranty period is 12 months from delivery. The features described on this website at the time of purchase apply; we do not warrant that the software suits a particular game or runs without errors in every configuration.
• Liability. We are liable without limitation for intent, gross negligence and personal injury. For slight negligence we are only liable for breach of essential contractual obligations, limited to the damage typical and foreseeable for this contract; towards businesses, liability for slight negligence is excluded. Please back up your projects regularly: we are not liable for lost data that a regular backup would have prevented. Mandatory statutory liability, for example under the Product Liability Act, remains unaffected.
• Withdrawal and refunds. No refunds after download. Please use the free trial first. As digital content, your 14-day right of withdrawal ends when you expressly agree at checkout that delivery starts immediately and confirm that you lose your right of withdrawal. Without that consent the statutory right applies.
• Termination. If you seriously breach this license, for example by passing on the engine or sharing license keys, and do not remedy it within 14 days of our notice, we may terminate the license. You must then stop using the Terra Engine and delete it. Games you have already released are not affected.