Pre-release terms for the current beta. Some clauses are still being finalized with counsel; the complete version will be published before any paid release. Questions? Use our contact form.

Accretion: Terms of Service

Effective date: September 3, 2026
Last updated: September 25, 2026
Provider: Tideglass Studio ("we", "us"), which makes and runs the Game. Accretion and the Tideglass Studio name are owned by Zorath LLC.
Game: Accretion: Clash of Planets ("the Game"), on Google Play and in the browser at tideglass.studio.
Contact: the contact form at tideglass.studio/contact.

By downloading, opening or playing the Game you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not play. These Terms work together with the Privacy Policy, the Cookie and Storage Policy and the Refund Policy.

What changed since July 18, 2026

The Android app now signs in with Google Play Games. There is no Tideglass account on Android, and your save and scores are held by Google.
Your Android leaderboard row shows the planet name you typed and your level to every player.
Deleting your data means different things on the two builds; section 9 says what each one reaches.
The Game sells nothing. The old text described purchases that do not exist.

1. Who may play

You must be 13 or older, or older where your country sets a higher age for online consent. The web game asks your year of birth and does not admit younger players. On Google Play the app is rated for a general audience of 13 and older.

2. Your licence

We give you a personal, non transferable licence to play the Game for your own enjoyment. You may not copy, sell, rent, modify, reverse engineer or redistribute the Game or any part of it, or use it to build another product, except where the law allows despite this clause.

3. Ownership

The Game, its code, art, music, writing, names and everything else in it belong to Zorath LLC or its licensors. Nothing in these Terms gives you ownership of any of it.

4. Accounts

Android: there is no Tideglass account. Google Play Games signs you in with the Google account on your phone under Google's own terms. There is nothing of ours to register for, sign out of or lose.

Web: playing needs a Tideglass account with an email address, a username and a password. Keep the password to yourself; what happens under your account is your responsibility. One account per person, and one active session at a time; signing in elsewhere ends the earlier session.

5. What you publish

Some of what you do in the Game is shown to other players, and you agree to that when you use those features.

Android: when a run beats your best, your score, the level of that run and the planet name you typed go to Google's leaderboards, where every player of the Game can see them next to your Play Games name. Your row is listed publicly only if your Play Games profile is public, a setting you control in Google's Play Games settings.
Web: your planet name (or your username until you choose one), your score, your level and your rank go on the season board, and a recording of your best run may be offered to other players as a ghost to race against.

You keep whatever rights you have in a planet name. You give us permission to show it on the boards for as long as it is there, and to remove it if it breaks section 6.

6. Planet names and conduct

A planet name may be 2 to 16 characters. It must not be offensive, hateful, sexual, threatening, impersonate anyone, contain personal information, or advertise anything. On the web we may reject, change or remove a name that breaks this rule, and anyone who sees the board can report a name to us for a person to review. On Android the board is Google's: we cannot edit or remove a row there. You can report or hide a planet name from a board row in the Android game. A report reaches us through the contact form and we will act on what we can, and you can also report the player's profile to Google.

Do not cheat, use bots or modified builds, exploit bugs, abuse the ad rewards, or interfere with other players or with our servers. We may remove scores, names and ghosts that break these rules, and we may suspend or delete a web account that does.

7. Fair play and scores

A leaderboard score is a claim about a run. On the web our servers check every run before it ranks and refuse or lower a score they cannot confirm. On Android the Game checks a run on your phone before it submits, and a run it cannot confirm is not sent. We may remove a score at any time if we believe it was not earned.

8. Ads, lives and Stardust

The Game is free. The only ads in it are rewarded ads you choose to watch for a bonus: an extra life, a second skill card or extra Stardust. Nothing in the Game is held back if you choose not to watch, and lives refill on their own over time. Lives, Stardust, skill cards and any other in game value have no cash value, cannot be traded or cashed out, and may be changed or reset when the Game changes. Web rewarded ads exist in the build but are switched off today.

9. Ending it

Web: you can delete your account in the Game under Settings, then DELETE ACCOUNT, confirmed with DELETE FOREVER, or on the deletion page on this site. Deletion is immediate and permanent: your account, save, board row, ghost, planet name and everything banked to the account are gone.

Android: Settings, then DELETE MY GAME DATA, erases everything on the phone and your Play Saved Games snapshot. Your Play leaderboard score is held by Google under your own profile and only Google's own deletion path can remove it: Play Store app, Settings, General, Play Games Profile, Privacy and Settings, Delete profile and game data.

We may suspend or end your access to online features if you break these Terms, and we may retire an online feature or the Game itself; where we can, we will say so in advance.

10. Availability and changes

The Game, its servers and its online features may change, pause or end. Google's services on Android are Google's to run. We are not responsible for loss of progress caused by a lost phone, a deleted Google account, a server outage or a change to the Game, and we do not guarantee that saves, boards or ghosts will be kept forever.

11. Disclaimer

The Game is provided as it is and as available, without warranties of any kind to the extent the law allows. Your legal rights as a consumer are not affected.

12. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, neither Tideglass Studio nor Zorath LLC is liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, and our total liability to you for anything to do with the Game is limited to the greater of what you have paid us in the past twelve months, which is nothing while the Game sells nothing, or one hundred US dollars. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, for gross negligence, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

13. Indemnity

If your misuse of the Game or breach of these Terms causes a claim against us, you will cover the reasonable costs of dealing with it.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States. We will name the governing state, the venue and any dispute process in these Terms before the Game sells anything. Mandatory consumer protection rules where you live are not affected.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. We will announce a material change in the Game or on this site before it applies, and update the date at the top. Playing after that date is acceptance of the new Terms.

16. Contact

The contact form at tideglass.studio/contact.

These terms apply to the current release and may be updated. Questions? Use our contact form.