Terms and refunds
Last updated: 3 November 2026
These are the rules for playing Snake-Killer.io at snakekiller.io and for buying in it. By playing or signing up, you agree to them. Questions: [email protected].
In short
- The game is free. Items change only how your snake looks.
- The game is for players aged 13 and over. Under 18, buy only with a parent's permission.
- Coins and items have no money value: they cannot be sold or cashed out.
- Changed your mind? An unused purchase is refunded within 14 days. Charged by mistake, charged twice, or it never arrived: refunded in full.
- Cheats, hacks and rude names can get an account banned.
- In the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland you play as a guest: paying money is closed there for now; buying with coins works.
Who we are
Nikita Dubrovskii, a private individual, runs this game under the name Snake-Killer.io («we», «us»). Contact: [email protected]. Help with the game and purchases: [email protected].
Who can play
- The game is meant for players aged 13 and over.
- Players under 18 need a parent's permission to buy anything. Until the age screen says you are 18 or older, purchases for money are limited to $50 in 30 days.
- The game is open in every country; we open it in the United States first. In the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland you play as a guest: signing up, signing in, the launch sign-up and paying money are closed there for now; buying with coins works. We tell where you are by the country of your internet address (see Privacy).
The game
- The game is free to play.
- Bots play too. Computer-controlled snakes (bots) play in every world beside people, day and night. They move like players, have names, and wear ranks for how well they play. The «online» number on the main screen counts everyone in the world: people and bots.
- The autopilot. The game's own autopilot can steer your snake when you turn it on, and while your connection is broken. Its kills do not count towards your rank.
- We keep improving the game, so modes, items and prices can change. We may pause the game for updates and repairs.
Your account
- You can play as a guest. Your progress is then tied to this browser: clearing its data for the site loses it.
- Outside the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland (see «Who can play»), you can sign in with a code sent to your email, or with Google. To buy, sign in first, so purchases are not lost when you change devices or clear the browser.
- One account is for one person. Do not share, sell or buy accounts.
- You can delete your data at any time, signed in or as a guest: «Your account» → «Delete my data». Clearing the browser's data for the site alone only cuts you off from your guest record. How we handle your data is on the Privacy page.
Names and words
Your name in the game and the words on your tattoo are seen by other players. They must not insult, threaten, contain hate, advertise, give anyone's personal details, or pretend to be someone else, us included. The game turns some names down by itself; we may change others.
Play fair
- No cheats, hacks, or programs that change the game or play for you. No bots of your own: only the game's own autopilot may steer your snake.
- Do not use bugs to get ahead. Tell us about them instead.
- Do not attack or overload our servers, and do not get around the game's limits, for example with many accounts to collect coins.
- Do not sell or trade accounts, coins or items for money.
If someone breaks the rules
- We may change their name, remove them from a match, take back coins and items won unfairly, block the account for a time, or close it for good (a ban).
- For serious or repeated breaches, purchases on that account are not refunded.
- If you think we got it wrong, write to [email protected], and a person will look again.
Coins and items
- Items change only how your snake looks. Everyone plays on equal terms: nothing you buy makes you stronger.
- Coins and items are a licence to use them in the game. They have no money value: they cannot be exchanged for money, sold, or moved to someone else.
- You get coins by playing matches (up to a daily limit), with the Pioneer pack, and later by buying coin packs and by watching a video you chose.
- Your coins and items are kept on our server, with your account or guest record. If you delete your account, or a guest's browser data is cleared, they are gone.
- Coins spent on an item are not given back, except as «Refunds» below says.
- If a refund or a chargeback takes back coins you have already spent (see «Refunds»), your coins may go below zero. While they are below zero, matches and videos give no coins, and nothing can be bought with coins.
Purchases
- Purchases for money open later. When they do, the seller is Xsolla, our payment partner and the merchant of record. Xsolla takes the payment and adds any taxes. Its End User License Agreement and Refund Policy apply to the payment itself.
- Before your first purchase, the game asks when you were born.
- Every price in real money is shown before you pay. Items you get with coins also show about what those coins cost in real money.
- What you buy arrives at once. If it does not arrive within a few minutes, write to us with the order number from Xsolla's receipt.
Refunds
- Charged by mistake, charged twice, or it never arrived: we refund in full.
- Changed your mind: within 14 days of the payment, if the purchase is unused, we refund in full. You can return it yourself in the shop («My purchases» → «Return»), or ask as below. Xsolla sends the money back, usually the way you paid, within a few working days; if that way takes no refunds, Xsolla writes to you.
- When a purchase counts as used: an item, once it has been on your snake in a game at least once; a coin pack, once you have fewer coins left than it gave.
- A refund takes the item or coins back from your account.
- If you live in the EU or the UK: items arrive immediately, so at checkout you agree that delivery starts at once and that your legal 14-day right to cancel ends when it does. Our own 14-day refund for unused purchases above still applies.
- To ask for a refund, write to [email protected] with the order number from Xsolla's receipt. You can also ask Xsolla directly at help.xsolla.com.
- If a payment is reversed through your bank, what it gave is taken back.
- Our refund rules are in addition to Xsolla's Refund Policy. If either one gives you more, you get the one that gives you more.
Nothing here limits the rights you have under the consumer law of your country.
The free Pioneer pack
- Before the launch (5 November 2026, 01:00 UTC), the first 700 players who sign up with an account, aged 13 or older, where signing up is open (see «Who can play»), get a numbered Pioneer seat, the Pioneer badge, a kill effect and 1 000 coins, free.
- First come, first served: no purchase and no chance. Only while seats last, and only until the launch. A seat's number is never given out again.
- The pack's coins and items are like any others: they have no money value.
Our responsibility
We work to keep the game running, but we cannot promise it will always be available or free of errors. As far as the law allows, our responsibility for any loss is limited to what you paid us in the last 12 months.
Law and disputes
If you play as a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country you live in, and you may bring a claim in its courts. Nothing in these rules takes that away.
Before any claim, please write to [email protected]: most things are fixed by a message. If we cannot settle it within 60 days, either of us may take it to the competent courts.
Ending
You can stop playing at any time and delete your account in the game, or by writing to [email protected]. If we ever close the game for good, we will say so in the game at least 30 days before. Coins and items have no money value and are not paid out.
Contact us
- Help with the game, purchases and refunds: [email protected]
- Your data and deleting your account: [email protected]
- Everything else, partners and press: [email protected]
- Rights holders: [email protected]
Changes
When these rules change, we update the date at the top. Changes do not apply to purchases made before them.
Rights holders
If you think something in the game or on this site uses your work, write to [email protected].