Content rules

Zaisma is for players 13 and up. Any kind of game is welcome, within these rules.

Not allowed

• Sexual content involving minors, in any form. We report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
  Fine: kids and teens as characters in any story that isn't sexual.
  Not fine: anything sexual involving someone who is or looks under 18, drawn, animated or AI-made included.
• Sexually explicit content.
  Fine: romance, kissing, dating sims, swimwear and dirty jokes.
  Not fine: nudity, sex shown or described in detail, or porn behind a "censored" bar.
• Malware, crypto mining, phishing, scams or anything that tries to break out of the game.
  Fine: minified builds, opening your own site from the game's links, and saving in the browser.
  Not fine: a "free skins" page that asks for a password, mining while you play, or code that tries to leave the game's frame.
• Content that's illegal in the United States, including real-money gambling.
  Fine: casino, poker and slots played for points that can't be bought or cashed out; crime as gameplay.
  Not fine: bets with real money, or with chips that can be bought or cashed out.
• Private details about real people, or real threats. Anything that lets players find or reach a real person who didn't make it public: a home address, phone number, personal email or private account, or where they go to school or work. Or a real threat of violence against a real person.
  Fine: anyone's name, face and photo; mocking, memes and satire; violence that's gameplay; places famous on their own (the White House, Epstein's island, a company's HQ); accounts and addresses people publish themselves.
  Not fine: "Jake lives at 12 Oak St", a celebrity's leaked phone number, the school a kid goes to, or a message that means a real threat.
• Other people's games, art, music or characters used without permission. We act on it only when the owner sends a notice (see Copyright and DMCA notices).
  Fine: a game inspired by another (the same genre, the same mechanics), parody with your own characters, and assets used within their license.
  Not fine: Mario in your game, a ripped soundtrack, or someone else's game uploaded as yours.
• False claims that a real private person committed a crime. We act on it only when that person sends a notice (see Defamation notices); we don't judge it ourselves.
  Fine: satire, jokes and wild stories about politicians, celebrities and other public figures; crimes someone was publicly charged with or convicted of; made-up people.
  Not fine: a game that names your neighbor Emma Clarke as the town's thief, or says a real classmate sells drugs.
• Asking players for personal details like emails, real names, birthdays or location inside the game. Every player has a Zaisma ID and name; games with their own accounts link them through Sign in with Zaisma, and anything more happens on the developer's own site.
  Fine: a nickname for the scoreboard, Sign in with Zaisma, and a link to your own site.
  Not fine: "Enter your email to save", or asking for a birthday, age, city or real name.
• Typed chat between players outside Zaisma's chat hosting. In Zaisma rooms, chat goes through room.chat; on your own server, through canChat and checkChat. Preset phrases and emotes are always fine.
  Fine: a chat box that sends with room.chat, preset phrases ("GG", "Follow me"), emotes, names for worlds and rooms, text only the player who typed it sees, and a word game that checks what you type against its own list and tells everyone only whether it was right.
  Not fine: players' typed messages sent with room.send or broadcast, or through another service.
• Cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin: using or promoting other coins, tokens, NFTs or airdrops. A story that mentions one is fine. Bitcoin games are welcome, but not investment advice, mining on the player's device, paying players sats, or asking for seed phrases or permission to spend from a wallet.
  Fine: teaching Bitcoin, items for sats, tips, and a story with a meme-coin villain.
  Not fine: an NFT skin shop, an airdrop, "deposit sats, invite friends, earn more", or asking for a seed phrase.
• Selling paid random rewards (loot boxes), including through coins bought with money, or showing prices in coins or gems bought with money without the real price beside each one, even when the coins themselves are sold at a real price. Players always know what they pay for and what it costs in money: an item is sold by name, and a price in coins or gems shows the real price beside it.
  Fine: a free daily chest, a shop that shows "500 gems ($4.99)", and cosmetics bought by name.
  Not fine: a paid crate with a random skin, gems bought with money spent on a gacha pull, or a shop that sells gem bundles priced only in gems.
• Faking plays or players, with bots, scripts or click farms.
  Fine: asking players to share your game, tester links, and playing your own game.
  Not fine: scripts that open your game in a thousand tabs, click farms, or bots that fill rooms.

Names players give to things in a game (sessions, worlds, maps) are allowed. The game is responsible for keeping them within these rules.

Allowed, even where other platforms ban it

• Offensive, edgy and dark humor, insults and swearing.
• Jokes and opinions about any group, religion, country or political side. There's no hate-speech rule.
• Mocking, memes and satire of real people, from politicians to celebrities, with their name, face and photo.
• Violence that's gameplay: shooting, fighting, war and horror, including against real people.
• Real wars and history, with their uniforms, flags and symbols.
• Drinking, smoking and drugs as part of a story or setting.
• Casino and card games played for points or coins that can't be bought or cashed out.
• Trash talk and fiery lobbies: how players talk to each other is up to each game.
• Bitcoin games: teaching it, Bitcoin themes, selling items for sats, and tips.

How we check

Every game is scanned before it's published: automatic malware checks, matching against known illegal images, and an AI review. Games that need a closer look wait for a person.

If a game breaks a rule

That version is held, or the live game is hidden, and you're told which rule, what we found and how to fix it. Nothing is deleted. Publish a fixed version and it's back.

Copyright and defamation are different: we don't judge them ourselves. When the owner of a work, or a private person a game falsely accuses of a crime, sends a notice, the game is hidden until you publish a version without what the notice names. If the notice is wrong, you can send a counter-notice. See Copyright and DMCA notices and Defamation notices.

These rules follow US law. When a country's own law forbids a game that's fine here (the UK's hatred offences, say), a notice from a court, regulator or police there blocks it for players in that country only, and everyone else still plays it. Publish a version without what the notice names and we lift the block. Authorities can send notices to safety@zaisma.com.

Accounts are closed only for sexual content involving minors, malware, or putting back something we already took down.

Reports and takedowns

Every game page has a Report button. We remove games that break these rules. Reports about child safety or illegal content go straight to a person. Until we've checked a report, a brand-new game is hidden and a recent update goes back to the version before it.

How players talk to each other is up to each game and its moderators, and mute and block are always there. Zaisma steps in for threats that reach into real life, sharing someone's personal details, following someone after they've blocked them, and anything sexual toward a teen. Trash talk, however rough, is the game's call: reports about bullying, cheating and other behavior go to the game's developer.

A game with faked plays is taken off Popular, Trending and New. Doing it again can get the game taken down.

Zaisma's lists show games whose covers and titles keep a few clear lines: no text but the title, nothing laid over the picture, no fake rewards, no famous characters you don't own, and built around something from the game. A game that breaks one still plays by its link until it's fixed; a fake reward holds it. See Covers that show your game.