Terms of Use

In short: Punchlings is for ages 13 and up. Play fair, give your Punchling a decent name, and only buy what you want. There is no premium currency, no loot boxes and no bought power. The details are below.

These terms exist in German, English, French, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. If the versions differ, the German version applies.

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

Punchlings is offered by Culpa UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Forsmannstr. 22A, 22303 Hamburg, Germany (“we”). These terms apply to your use of the Punchlings app and the website punchlings.com.

2. The game

Punchlings is free to play. Your Punchlings fight others automatically; only our server decides how a Fight ends. You need an internet connection to play. From a Level the app names, you can admit a Punchling into the Hall of Fame. That is final: it keeps its Profile, History and Replays but never fights again, and its Punchling Slot becomes free.

From a Level, or after a few days, as the app tells you, you can found a Clan or join one and take on a boss with it every week. The Clan Leader accepts or declines requests to join, removes members and picks the emblem; if the Clan Leader leaves or hasn’t played for a while, another member leads. A Clan never makes a Punchling stronger. The only rewards are Titles, and you keep them when you leave the Clan or are removed.

3. Age

• Punchlings is for ages 13 and up. On first launch the app asks for your age before it creates an account. If you are under 13, you can’t create an account. If we learn that a Player is under 13 anyway, we delete the account.
• The App Store rates Punchlings 13+.
• If you are under 18, you need your parents’ permission for this contract and especially for purchases. Some things work differently for you, for example advertising (section 9).

4. Your account

• The app creates an anonymous account on first launch. It belongs to you alone; don’t share or sell it.
• An anonymous account lives on your device. If you delete the app or lose the device before you secure your account with Sign in with Apple, your Punchlings and your progress are gone. Purchases belong to your Apple Account: you can restore them with “Restore Purchases”.
• You can delete your account in the app’s settings at any time. Deleted means deleted: your Punchlings and progress cannot be brought back. Purchases stay with your Apple Account: if you start again, “Restore Purchases” brings them back.

5. Community standards for names

Other Players see your Punchling’s name, and so does everyone who opens its Profile at punchlings.com/<name>. Other Players see the name of a Clan you found, and so does everyone who opens its Clan page at punchlings.com/c/<name>. So a name must not:

• insult, threaten, bully, discriminate against or stir up hatred against anyone,
• be sexual, glorify violence or otherwise be unsuitable for a game played by teens,
• refer to banned symbols, organizations, drugs or crimes,
• impersonate a real person, including yourself with your full name,
• infringe trademarks, names or other rights of others, or pretend that you speak for Punchlings.

Never allowed, anywhere in Punchlings: pornography, and anything that encourages, promotes or explains suicide, self-harm or eating disorders. We remove such content as soon as we learn about it.

A filter checks names when they are created; that doesn’t replace your responsibility. You allow us to show your Punchlings’ names, Portraits and progress in the game, on punchlings.com and in previews of shared links for as long as the Punchling exists, and the name and emblem of a Clan you found in the game and on punchlings.com for as long as the Clan exists. If you are under 18, your Punchlings only appear on punchlings.com once you switch that on in Settings, and link previews and Replays on the web never show their names.

6. Fair play

You may not:

• use cheats, bots, scripts or modified apps, or tamper with the connection to our server,
• deliberately exploit bugs instead of reporting them to us,
• create several accounts to give yourself Pupils, XP or other advantages,
• lie about your age to get around the rules for minors or for advertising,
• sell or trade accounts, Punchlings or purchases,
• overload or attack our servers, or reverse-engineer the app, unless the law expressly allows it.

7. Report, Block and moderation

• You can report any Punchling’s name in the app, on its Profile and on every Replay, and any Clan’s name on the Clan and in the Clan search. Without the app you can report by email to [email protected], with the name and the reason. Once several Players with some play history have reported a name, we hide it provisionally (“Punchling #4821”, “Clan #312”) until we have checked it.
• If you block a Punchling, the two of you never meet in the arena again, and neither of you can join a Clan the other is in.
• If a name or behavior breaks these terms, depending on how serious it is we may hide the name, rename the Punchling or Clan, ban the name for good or, for serious or repeated breaches, terminate the contract (section 12). We decide case by case and proportionately, by the community standards in section 5.
• Reasons and appeal: if we have taken action against one of your Punchlings or your Clan, write to [email protected] with your account ID (Settings › Account), and we tell you what we did and why. You can appeal within 6 months by email to the same address; a person then reviews the decision again and tells you the result. You can also complain to us about how we handle reports. You can always go to court.

8. Purchases

• You can buy extra Punchling Slots, Cosmetics (e.g. outfits, victory poses), a one-time founder pack and the premium track of the Season Pass with real money. Every purchase has a fixed price that the App Store shows beforehand, and you always know exactly what you get.
• Season Pass: each Season has a free and a premium track with Cosmetics and Titles. You fill both by playing: Fights you start (won or lost), Tournament rounds you win, Dares and the Sponsor Bonus earn stars, up to 16 a day. Stars can’t be bought, and the premium track gives no extra stars. You get every reward as soon as you reach it, without claiming it, so nothing is lost when a Season ends; if you unlock the premium track during a Season, you also get the premium rewards of the tiers you have already reached. The end of a Season is shown as a plain date.
• Club: if we offer the Club, it is a subscription through Apple that renews automatically for the period you chose (a month or a year) until you cancel it. The App Store shows the price and the period before you subscribe. You can cancel at any time in your Apple Account’s subscription settings; the Club then runs until the end of the paid period. If a renewal can’t be charged, the Club continues during the grace period Apple grants. You request refunds from Apple; if the Club is refunded, it ends at once. The Club gives no advantage in Fights: with it you collect the Sponsor Bonus without an ad, and the game shows what else it includes before you subscribe.
• There is no premium currency, no loot boxes or random purchases, and nothing that makes your Punchling stronger or gives you more Daily Fights.
• Purchases run exclusively through Apple (in-app purchase). Apple handles payment, invoices and refunds under its own terms; you request refunds from Apple. If a purchase is refunded, we remove the purchased content again.
• Purchased content is a right to use it in the game, not property and not money. It applies to your account for as long as the account and the game exist.
• Right of withdrawal: as a consumer in the EU you generally have 14 days to withdraw. For digital content it expires once we start delivering, if you expressly agreed to that and confirmed that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal.

9. Sponsor Bonus and Extra Fights (advertising)

• Sponsor Bonus: once a day you can choose to watch a short sponsor video for 3 stars for the Season Pass, within the daily cap.
• Extra Fight: when your Punchling has no Daily Fights left, you can choose to watch a short sponsor video for one more Fight, up to 2 a day for all your Punchlings together. An Extra Fight is a normal Arena Fight, with the same rewards as a Daily Fight; it is for the Punchling you watched it for and is gone at the new day. Extra Fights can’t be bought.
• It is always your choice; the game never shows ads on its own, and never before or during a Fight. An ad never gives your Punchling Stats, Weapons, Skills or Pets. You can hide the offers in Settings.
• Players under 18 in the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland see no sponsor offers and no ads.
• If an ad seems inappropriate to you, tap “Report this ad”. We check it and block the advertiser or the category.

10. Changes to the game

Punchlings keeps evolving: we add content, rebalance Weapons, Skills and Pets and change rules to keep the game fair and exciting. Purchased Cosmetics keep their look, purchased Punchling Slots stay. If a change impairs purchased content more than insignificantly, we tell you in advance and you can end the contract for it free of charge.

11. Availability and shutdown

We try to keep Punchlings running around the clock but cannot guarantee it, for example during maintenance or outages. Should we ever shut the game down, we will announce it in the app at least 3 months in advance.

12. Termination

You can stop at any time and delete your account. We can terminate the contract with 4 weeks’ notice, and immediately for good cause (e.g. serious or repeated breaches of these terms). If you haven’t secured your account with Sign in with Apple and haven’t used Punchlings with an internet connection for 24 months, we delete it just as if you had deleted it yourself; purchases can still be restored (section 4). If the contract ends for a reason you are not responsible for, we treat paid, unused content as the law requires.

13. Liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act and where we gave a guarantee. For slight negligence we are only liable if we breach an essential contractual obligation you may regularly rely on, and then limited to the foreseeable, typical damage. Otherwise liability is excluded. Your statutory rights for digital products (§§ 327 ff. BGB) remain unaffected.

14. Apple

These terms are between you and us, not Apple. We alone are responsible for the app and its content, including maintenance, support, warranty, claims arising from its use and third-party rights. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. The App Store’s usage rules apply in addition.

15. Changes to these terms

If we change these terms, we let you know in the app before the new version applies. Changes that put you in a worse position only apply if you agree; if you don’t, you can delete your account.

16. Law and dispute resolution

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer habitually resident in another country, you keep the mandatory consumer protection of that country. We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

17. Contact

Questions, problems, reports: [email protected]. More help is on the support page.

Last updated: November 3, 2026