Terms of Service

Welcome to AKOFENA: Blades of the Ancestors ("AKOFENA" or "the game"), made by Relu Spatial ("we", "us", "our"), based in Ghana. These terms are an agreement between you and us about playing the game, including its website at akofena.reluspatial.com and its online features.

1Agreeing to these terms

By playing AKOFENA you agree to these Terms of Service and to our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your information. If you don't agree, please don't play the game.

2Who can play

You must be at least 13 years old to play AKOFENA or create an account. If you are under 18, or under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian should review these terms with you. By accepting these terms you confirm that you meet the age requirement.

3Your account and player name

• You can play as a guest, or create an account with your email, Google or Discord. Give accurate information and keep your password secret. You are responsible for what happens on your account. Tell us at once if you think someone else has used it.
• Accounts are personal: don't share, sell or transfer them, and don't use someone else's.
• Your player name must not be offensive, hateful, sexual, threatening, or pretend to be another person, a member of our team, or an official account. We may change or remove a player name that breaks these rules.
• You can ask us to delete your account at any time (see the Privacy Policy).

4Fair play and how to behave

AKOFENA is a competitive game, and it only works when everyone plays fair. You agree not to:

• cheat, including using hacks, mods, bots, macros, scripts or automation tools to play for you or gain an advantage;
• exploit bugs or glitches to gain an advantage (please report them to us at [email protected] instead);
• tamper with match results, fake or replay results, or agree with another player to fix a match's outcome;
• harass, threaten, bully or abuse other players, or target anyone because of their identity, tribe, ethnicity or where they come from, including over voice chat or quick chat;
• record or share other players' voices without their permission;
• interfere with the game, its servers or other players' connections, including flooding, attacking or overloading them;
• access or try to access accounts, data or parts of our systems that aren't yours;
• break any law while using the game.

We check results and may review matches, including by replaying their inputs, to keep leaderboards and tournaments fair.

5Online play

• Direct connections: online matches connect your device directly to your opponent's device, so each can see the other's IP address. See the Privacy Policy for details.
• Computer-controlled opponents: when few players are online, Quick Match may pair you with a computer-controlled opponent instead of a person. These matches count only toward your Quick Match record. They never affect ratings, leaderboards or tournaments, and they are never used in Ranked play.
• Friends: friends can see when you're online and, unless you turn it off on the Friends screen, watch your live matches.
• Quick chat and voice chat: you can send preset quick-chat lines in online matches; a computer-controlled opponent may answer with them. Voice chat is optional, for signed-in players aged 16 and over in friend rooms and friends' tournaments, and only works when both players turn it on. We don't record it. You can mute, block or report any player; reports go to our team, and abuse can lead to suspension (section 12).
• Online features need an internet connection and our servers. We don't guarantee that they will always be available, uninterrupted or free of errors.

6Leaderboards and tournaments

• Leaderboards, Ranked play and official tournaments need an account with a verified email. Each event may have its own rules, which also apply.
• We may correct, reset or remove scores, ratings and results, for example after detecting cheating, a bug, or at the start of a new season.
• Entry to tournaments is free. Any tournament with prizes will have its own official rules, and cash prizes will only be offered to players aged 18 or over who can confirm their identity, where the law allows.

7Our game, and what you may do with it

The game and everything in it, including its characters, story, art, 3D models, animations, music, sound, code, name and logos, belong to Relu Spatial or to the people who license them to us, and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws.

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to play the game for your own enjoyment. You may not:

• copy, download, re-host, mirror or redistribute the game or its files;
• build, or help build, a copy or clone of the game, or a game that copies its characters, art or code;
• use bots, scrapers, crawlers, AI agents or other automated tools to copy, extract or reproduce the game, its content or its code, or use them to train artificial intelligence or machine-learning models;
• reverse engineer, decompile or modify the game, except where the law expressly allows it;
• sell, rent or commercially exploit the game or its content, or remove copyright and other notices.

Sharing is welcome: you may share screenshots, victory cards, clips, videos and live streams of yourself playing, including on channels that earn advertising revenue, as long as you don't suggest that we endorse you and you don't share the game's files themselves.

8Culture, history and the spirit of the game

AKOFENA's legends are inspired by real figures from Ghanaian and West African history and by traditional stories. They are creative interpretations for a fighting game, not exact historical portrayals.

Why we made it. AKOFENA exists to celebrate and preserve culture through games: to carry the names, stories, dress, music and places of our ancestors to a new generation, in a form they love to play. The legends come from many different peoples, and when they meet in the arena it is a friendly contest, like rival teams on a match day. It is not a statement about any tribe, ethnic group or community.

Nothing in AKOFENA is meant to promote hostility, division or violence between tribes or peoples, in Ghana or anywhere else. Where the real histories behind our legends include conflict, we tell them so that they are remembered and learned from, not to reopen old wounds or take sides.

We approach these histories and cultures with respect, and we ask you to do the same: celebrate every legend, and keep the rivalry in the game. If you feel something in AKOFENA misrepresents your history or your community, please tell us at [email protected]. We want to get it right.

9What you add to the game

You keep any rights you have in what you add to the game, such as your player name or the names you give local tournaments. You allow us to store and display them in the game for as long as needed to run it. Don't add anything you don't have the right to use, or that breaks these terms.

10Other services and credits

Signing in with Google or Discord, sharing through other apps, and videos in announcements are provided by other companies, under their own terms. Some sounds and models in the game are used under licence from their creators, who are credited in the game.

11Changes to the game

AKOFENA is free to play and is still growing. We may add, change or remove features, legends, modes or content, or stop offering the game or parts of it, at any time. If we ever introduce purchases, they will come with their own terms.

12Suspension and termination

We may warn, rename, suspend or ban an account, or remove results, if it breaks these terms or puts other players or the game at risk. Serious or repeated cheating or abuse can lead to a permanent ban. If you think we got it wrong, email us at [email protected] and we'll review it. You can stop playing at any time and ask us to delete your account.

13Disclaimer

The game is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no promises that it will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that your progress, stats or results will never be lost. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have as a consumer that the law says cannot be limited.

14Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Relu Spatial will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for loss of data, progress or goodwill, arising from your use of the game. Because the game is free, our total liability to you for any claim is limited to 100 Ghana cedis (GH₵100). Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

15The law that applies, and disagreements

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Ghana. If you have a problem with the game, please email us first at [email protected] so we can try to sort it out. If we can't, the courts of Ghana will have jurisdiction, although, if you live elsewhere, you may also have the right to bring a claim in your local courts.

16Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the game changes. The version and effective date at the top will change, and when the changes matter, the game will ask you to review and accept them before you keep playing. If you don't accept them, please stop playing.

17Contact

Relu Spatial · [email protected]