Shadow Walkers — End User Licence Agreement (EULA)

Last updated: 12 April 2026 Effective date: 12 April 2026 Licensor: Dwarven Stronghold Limited (company no. 11228461, 42-44 Bishopsgate, London, England, EC2N 4AH)

This EULA governs your right to install and run the Shadow Walkers client software. It supplements, and should be read together with, the Shadow Walkers Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Refund Policy and Pricing & Monetization document. If there is a conflict, the Terms of Service take precedence over this EULA except for matters specific to the client software and intellectual property, where this EULA controls.

1. Licence grant

Subject to your compliance with this EULA and the Terms of Service, Dwarven Stronghold Limited grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to:

  1. download, install and run the Shadow Walkers client software (the "Client") on devices you personally own or control;
  2. run the Client's WASM build in any standards-compliant web browser;
  3. use the Client to connect to the Shadow Walkers game servers operated by us and to play the Game for private, non-commercial entertainment;
  4. create and share non-commercial gameplay footage ("Let's Plays", screenshots, streams) in accordance with the content-creator rules set out below.

The licence is granted for as long as the Shadow Walkers online service is operated by us. If we permanently shut down the service, the licence to connect the Client to the game servers terminates automatically on the shutdown date; offline use of the Client is not granted by this EULA.

2. What the licence does not permit

You must not, and must not authorise any third party to:

  1. Copy or redistribute the Client, its assets, source code, documentation, shader files, WGSL code, binary protocol definitions, atlases or fonts, except for one backup copy on a medium you personally own.
  2. Modify, translate, adapt, create derivative works of, decompile, disassemble or reverse-engineer the Client, except to the extent this restriction is explicitly prohibited by applicable mandatory law (in particular, to achieve interoperability under section 50B of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and then only to the minimum extent necessary).
  3. Remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trade mark, or other proprietary notice, any in-game credits screen, or any on-screen watermark.
  4. Extract, rip or repackage game assets (sprites, atlases, audio, lore text, fonts, shaders) for use outside the Game, including but not limited to asset packs, wallpapers for sale, NFTs, fan games, derivative commercial products, or datasets.
  5. Use the Client or any part of the Game to train, fine-tune, evaluate or benchmark a machine-learning model or dataset that is not operated by Dwarven Stronghold Limited, including any large language model, image-generation model, video-generation model, or audio model.
  6. Bypass, disable, tamper with or interfere with any anti-cheat, server-authority, rate-limiting, DRM, or protocol-validation mechanism.
  7. Automate gameplay with bots, macros, auto-clickers, TAS tools, or any third-party client that interacts with the game servers, except for accessibility aids explicitly approved in writing by Dwarven Stronghold.
  8. Operate a private server or otherwise host a functional reproduction of the Shadow Walkers server infrastructure for public or commercial use.
  9. Exploit bugs to gain an unfair gameplay or economic advantage over other players, or to damage the in-game economy.
  10. Use the Client for any unlawful purpose, to infringe the rights of any third party, or to distribute malware.

3. Ownership

The Client, the Thari Engine runtime, the server software, the THARI Protocol, the Thari syllabary, all source code, all artwork, all music, all sound effects, all lore, all faction and location names (including but not limited to "Luminaris", "Entropia", "Shadow Walkers", "Sygil"), and all other materials delivered as part of the Game are the exclusive property of Dwarven Stronghold Limited or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trade mark and database-right laws.

All rights not expressly granted to you in this EULA are reserved. No ownership is transferred to you.

Feedback, bug reports, and suggestions you send us are provided on a non-confidential basis. By sending them, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use them to improve the Game. We will not publicly attribute them to you without your permission.

4. Open-source components

The Client and the server software include open-source libraries. A full list, with licences, is available at shadow-walkers.com/legal/open-source-notices. Nothing in this EULA limits your rights under those open-source licences. Where an open-source licence applies to a specific component, that licence prevails for that component.

5. Content-creator rules

You may record, screenshot, stream and upload non-commercial gameplay footage of Shadow Walkers without asking permission, provided that:

  1. the footage is clearly identified as Shadow Walkers gameplay;
  2. it does not misrepresent the Game or us;
  3. it does not include significant story spoilers during the first 30 days after release of new paid story content;
  4. it is not presented as endorsed by, affiliated with, or a project of Dwarven Stronghold Limited unless we have said so in writing.

Monetised streaming and video (advertising revenue, sponsorships, Patreon) is allowed under one of two routes:

We reserve the right to request the removal of any footage that breaches these rules or the Terms of Service, or that we reasonably believe would bring the Game into disrepute.

6. Automatic updates and telemetry

The Client is designed to check for updates and connect to our servers when launched. By running the Client, you agree that it may:

Detailed categories of telemetry are listed in the Privacy Policy. You can disable optional telemetry from the in-game settings menu.

7. Licence termination

This licence terminates automatically and immediately if you materially breach any of sections 2, 5 or 10 of this EULA. Termination does not entitle you to a refund unless one is due under the Refund Policy.

On termination you must stop using the Client and uninstall any local copy. Sections 3, 9 and 10 survive termination.

8. Warranties and disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Client is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that it will meet any particular performance or feature goal beyond what is described on shadow-walkers.com at the time of purchase.

This section does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer, including your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 in the UK and the Consumer Rights Directive in the EU. In particular, digital content supplied under a consumer contract must be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose, and as described, and we remain responsible to consumers for those implied terms.

9. Limitation of liability

The limitation of liability set out in Section 12 of the Terms of Service applies to this EULA and is incorporated here by reference. In particular, our total aggregate liability in connection with the Client and this EULA is limited to the amount set out in that section.

10. Anti-cheat and integrity

By running the Client, you acknowledge that we may implement reasonable anti-cheat measures, including:

Anti-cheat measures will not read files outside the Client's own directory or memory space, will not enumerate other processes, and will not include kernel-level drivers. If our anti-cheat approach changes materially, we will update the Privacy Policy and notify players.

11. Governing law

This EULA is governed by the laws of England and Wales, as set out in Section 15 of the Terms of Service. Consumer-protection rights in your country of residence continue to apply in your favour where they are mandatory.

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