Terms of Sale

Last updated: 6 October 2026

These terms apply when you buy our software from kage.games, RetroStar or Deluxe Pixel: the digital edition (a registration code by email), the boxed edition (UK only), or a Deluxe Pixel organisation licence (yearly).

Who you're buying from

Digital orders: our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our digital orders: Paddle sells the registration code to you, takes your payment, issues your receipt and handles VAT and other sales taxes. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns for them. Paddle's own Buyer Terms also apply to your purchase.

Boxed orders are sold to you directly by Kage Games Limited, paid through PayPal — see "Boxed edition (UK only)" below.

RetroStar and Deluxe Pixel are made by Kage Games Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 15443987), registered office 2 Jeffrey Hill Close, Grimsargh, Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom, PR2 5BS. See Contact.

What you're buying

A registration code that unlocks the full version of RetroStar, a game for the ZX Spectrum Next and compatible computers. The game is one free download, and so is its manual; without a registration code the game runs as a 10-minute demo. Please try the free demo before buying to make sure RetroStar runs on your machine.

Your code is emailed to the address you give at checkout. You register it once — in the game over your Next's WiFi, or on our website — and the game is unlocked from then on.

For Deluxe Pixel, a pixel art program for Windows, it's the same: a registration code that unlocks the full version. The program is one free download; without a registration code it runs as a demo, with limits described on its page. Please try it before buying. You register in the program (Help > Register) or on our website.

Your RetroStar licence

When you buy a registration code, Kage Games Limited grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use RetroStar on the computers you own, for your own non-commercial use. You may not copy, share or sell your registration or unlock code, or modify, decompile or redistribute the game, except as the law allows. RetroStar and its artwork, music and documentation are © Kage Games Limited.

A registration code is registered to the first email address that confirms it; it can't then be registered to a different address. If you buy it as a gift, give the code — not the unlock code — so the person you give it to can register it themselves.

Your Deluxe Pixel licence

Deluxe Pixel is a tool for making things, including things you sell. You own what you make with it, and every licence below lets you use your work commercially.

Personal licence (the digital and boxed editions). Kage Games Limited grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, lifetime licence to use Deluxe Pixel on the computers you use, for any purpose, including commercial work, if you are:

  • an individual, working for yourself; or
  • an organisation of up to 10 people (counting employees and regular contractors, including you), in which case the licence covers the person it's registered to.

A personal licence doesn't cover work for a larger organisation. If you work for (or contract regularly to) an organisation of more than 10 people, you may not use a personal licence for work for that organisation, even one you bought yourself: that organisation needs an organisation licence. You can still use your personal licence for your own projects, outside that work.

Organisation licence (Studio or Company). An organisation of more than 10 people that uses Deluxe Pixel needs an organisation licence: a Studio licence for up to 50 people, or a Company licence for more. It covers everyone who works for that organisation (employees and regular contractors), wherever they work, on as many computers as they use, while it's paid for.

  • Counting people: everyone who works for the organisation, employees and regular contractors alike, whether or not they use Deluxe Pixel. Separate companies in the same group each need their own licence.
  • Yearly: an organisation licence is a subscription, billed by Paddle each year until you cancel. You can cancel at any time in Paddle's account pages or by asking us; it then runs to the end of the year you've paid for, and doesn't renew. Paddle's terms cover refunds of subscription payments.
  • Its registration: you receive one registration code, tied to your organisation's email domain. Each person registers it with their own work address at that domain (or a subdomain of it); we'll add the addresses of contractors who use their own on request. Who manages the licence can ask us to remove someone who has left, freeing their place.
  • The monthly check: Deluxe Pixel registered with an organisation licence contacts kage.games about once a month, to confirm the licence is still running and to tell you about updates. If a copy can't make the check for 90 days, it goes back to the free demo until it can.
  • When it ends: if it's cancelled or a renewal can't be taken, the licence ends at the end of the period paid for. No more people can register it, each copy goes back to the free demo at its next monthly check, and your organisation must stop using the full program unless it renews or each user has a licence of their own. Work you made with it stays yours, and the demo still opens and saves it.
  • Growing: if your organisation grows past a tier's size, move to the next tier at your next renewal; contact us and we'll arrange it.
  • Prices for renewals are those shown when the renewal is due. If they rise, we'll tell you at least 30 days before your renewal, and you can cancel before then.

For every Deluxe Pixel licence: you may not share or sell your registration or unlock code (except within your organisation, under an organisation licence), or modify, decompile or redistribute Deluxe Pixel, except as the law allows. Deluxe Pixel and its documentation are © Kage Games Limited.

Education licence. For a student or member of staff at a school, college or university, for teaching and learning there: a non-exclusive, non-transferable, lifetime licence for the person it's registered to, not for commercial work (for that, a personal or organisation licence is needed). It registers only to an email address at a school, college or university; if yours isn't recognised, contact us. We may ask for evidence that you study or work there. Code clubs and other educational groups: contact us.

Prices and payment

Prices are shown on each game's page. Digital: the checkout shows the final price in your currency, including any VAT or sales tax, and Paddle takes payment when you order. Boxed: the price and postage shown, paid through PayPal when you order.

Boxed edition (UK only)

A boxed edition — the box, the printed manual and a registration card — costs the price and postage shown on the game's page, paid through PayPal.

  • Where we deliver: UK addresses only (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — not the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man). Orders with an address elsewhere are refunded in full.
  • Delivery: we dispatch within 14 days (usually within 3 working days), by Royal Mail Tracked 48, and email you when it's on its way. If it hasn't arrived within 30 days of your order, or arrives damaged, contact us and we'll send a replacement or refund you.
  • Changing your mind: you can cancel within 14 days of receiving your order: tell us (an email is enough), then return it within 14 days of telling us. You pay the return postage. We refund the price and the original postage within 14 days of getting it back (or your proof of posting). The registration card's code is cancelled when you return it.
  • Sealed software: the boxed edition is sealed. If you unseal it, the right to cancel no longer applies (Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, regulation 28) — this doesn't affect your rights if it's faulty.
  • Faulty or not as described: you're always entitled to a repair, replacement or refund under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
  • Returns address: 2 Jeffrey Hill Close, Grimsargh, Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom, PR2 5BS.

Refunds

See our Refund Policy.

Updates and support

Updates to RetroStar and Deluxe Pixel are free downloads. If something isn't working, please contact us.

Liability

Our software is provided as it is. Nothing in these terms limits your rights as a consumer under the law of the UK (including the Consumer Rights Act 2015) or of the country where you live.

Changes

We may update these terms; the version on this page when you bought applies to your purchase.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you live elsewhere in the UK or the EU, you also keep the protection of your own country's consumer law.