Terms of use
Idol Star is a single-player game that runs entirely on your device. You may play it. You may not resell it or pass it off as your own. It is provided as it is, with no promise that it is perfect.
The short version
By installing or playing Idol Star you agree to what is on this page. If you do not, do not install it. These terms are between you and maindtec, who make and publish the game.
Your licence
You get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and play Idol Star on devices you own or control, for your own entertainment.
You may not sell, rent, sublicense or redistribute the app; repackage it or ship a modified build; extract its writing, art or data and publish them as your own work; or reverse-engineer it except where that right cannot be excluded by law.
Everything else stays ours: the code, the writing, the design, the name and the look of it.
What you may do with your runs
Screenshots, screen recordings, streams and videos of your own runs are yours to post wherever you like, including monetised channels. No permission is needed and none has to be asked for. Sharing a seed so someone else can play the same life is exactly what seeds are for.
The one limit: do not present the game, or a recording of it, as something you made.
The game is fiction
Every character, company, group, song and event in Idol Star is invented. No real person, real group, real agency or real song appears in it, and none is referenced. Any resemblance to a real person or organisation is coincidental and unintended.
The game depicts pressures that exist in real entertainment industries. That is depiction, not endorsement, and it is not advice. Nothing in the game is guidance about dieting, health, employment, contracts or anything else.
Age rating
Idol Star is rated 12+ and is intended for players of that age and older. It contains infrequent mild references to themes including diet and body pressure, workplace favouritism, restrictions on personal relationships, and public scandal. There is no sexual content, no graphic content, no profanity and no violence.
If you are a parent or guardian and you have a view on something in the game, please write to us — see Support.
Your save file
Your run is saved on your device and nowhere else. We have no copy of it and no way to recover it. Deleting the app, starting a new life, or a device problem will lose it, and we cannot restore it for you.
An update that changes the game's writing can cause an existing run to be declined rather than reloaded, because the save works by replaying your choices. This is deliberate — the alternative is silently giving you a different life than the one you left. See Support.
No purchases
The game contains no in-app purchases, no advertising and no currency that can be bought. If the app itself is paid, that transaction is between you and Apple or Google under their terms, and refunds go through them.
Updates and availability
We may update the game, change its content, or stop distributing it. We will try not to break your save, and release notes will say when an update changes the event bank. An installed copy keeps working on your device regardless of whether the app stays listed.
No warranty
Idol Star is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. We do not promise it is free of bugs or that it will run on every device.
Liability
To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the game, including lost save data. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and if you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.
Governing law
These terms are governed by German law. If you are a consumer, you keep the protections of the mandatory law of the country you live in.
Changes
If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them, and the updated version applies to use of the game after that date.