Content standards

Last updated 1 October 2026

Anyone can publish a game on Shardvolt, so it matters what we let through. This page is the rule we apply, written plainly enough that a player, a developer or a network administrator can all read it in two minutes.

Everything is reviewed before anyone can see it

An uploaded game is not live when it is uploaded. It goes into a queue marked pending, a person opens it and plays it, and only then is it approved and listed. A game that is rejected never appears in the catalog. This is not an automated filter that something can slip past — nothing is public until a human has looked at it.

What is not allowed

• Blood, gore, dismemberment, or realistic depictions of violence against people.
• Sexual or suggestive content of any kind.
• Gambling, simulated gambling, loot boxes, or anything that teaches betting mechanics.
• Hate speech, slurs, harassment, or content targeting a group or a person.
• Drugs, alcohol and tobacco as a theme or a reward.
• Horror intended to frighten — jump scares, body horror, disturbing imagery.
• Links or redirects out of the game to anywhere else, and any attempt to collect a player's personal details inside a game.
• Loading anything from another website. A game must be self-contained — all of its code, images and sound ship with it. No CDN scripts, no remote assets, no calls out to another server.
• Real-money purchases inside a game, and advertising a player cannot tell apart from the game.
• Anything copied from someone else and published as your own.

Cartoon conflict is allowed — a tank duel, a light-cycle race, an arena shooter with low-poly figures and no blood. The line is realism and intent, not whether a game has any conflict in it at all.

Players cannot contact each other

There is no private messaging, no friend requests, no profile comments and no voice or video anywhere on Shardvolt. Two players have no way to reach each other privately. Where players can post publicly, it is moderated by us and anything can be hidden or removed.

Playing needs no account

Every game can be played signed out. An account is optional and exists only to keep scores, Shards and cosmetics; an email address is optional on top of that and is used solely to reset a forgotten password. We do not ask a player for their name, their age, their school or their location.

Ads

Shardvolt is ad-supported through Google AdSense, under Google's own policies for what may be shown. Ads are separate from game content and are never placed inside a game frame.

Reporting something

Every game page has a report button, and it does not require an account. Reports go straight to the review queue. You can also email support@shardvolt.com — if something is on here that breaks the rules above, tell us and we will take it down.

Network administrators: see Shardvolt for schools for the details you need to evaluate the site.