Terms

The terms, in plain words.

These are the rules for using NextGame. We’ve kept them short because there isn’t much to say. Last updated: 1 November 2026.

NextGame (the iPhone app, its App Clip and nextgame.now) is made in Australia by NextGame (“we” and “us”). By using NextGame you agree to these terms and to the privacy page. If you don’t agree, please don’t use it.

Using NextGame

You need to be 13 or over, and if you’re under 18, have a parent or guardian’s permission.
Your account is yours, and you’re responsible for what’s done with it. Don’t share sign-in codes, and tell us if you think someone else is using it.
NextGame is for planning game nights with people you know. Don’t use it to send unwanted invites, messages or contact details to people who didn’t ask for them.
Don’t use it to break the law, harass or threaten anyone, post anything hateful or that isn’t yours to share, or pretend to be someone else. Don’t try to get into accounts, nights or data that aren’t yours, interfere with how NextGame runs, or copy the app or its catalogue in bulk.

Invites and guests

When you invite people, you’re responsible for having their permission to contact them. Invites go through your own Messages or a link you share; we don’t message your guests until they reply and choose to hear from us.
What a host puts in a night (place, notes) is visible to everyone invited. Don’t put anything there you wouldn’t say to the table.
Anyone with a night’s link can see what the invite shows, so share it only with the people you’re inviting.

Your content

Your nights, shelf, plays, ratings and notes stay yours. You let us store, copy and show them only as needed to run NextGame for you and the people you share them with, as the privacy page says. That permission ends when you delete them or your account.
Reviews and notes are shown to your table, with your name. Keep them about the game.
You’re responsible for what you post, and we can remove anything that breaks these terms.

The Oracle

The Oracle and NextGame’s other suggestions are there to help, and they can be wrong. Treat “Rules in 2 minutes” as a summary, not the rulebook, and check the box when it matters.

Games and covers

Game names, player counts and times come from public sources such as Wikidata, and from our own research. Box art is shown only where we’re licensed to show it; otherwise NextGame draws its own cover. Game names and trademarks belong to their owners, who don’t endorse NextGame.

Paying

NextGame is free. If we add paid features we’ll say what they cost before you’re charged, and subscriptions will be through the App Store, where you can cancel them.

Ending things

You can delete your account from Settings at any time.
We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or where the law requires it, after telling you why, unless the law stops us or it would put someone at risk.
We may change, pause or stop parts of NextGame. If we close it altogether, we’ll give you reasonable notice where we can.

Apple and the App Store

We give you a personal, non-transferable licence to use the NextGame app on Apple devices you own or control, as the App Store’s terms allow.
These terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple isn’t responsible for NextGame or its content, doesn’t have to provide maintenance or support for it, and isn’t responsible for any claim about it, including product liability, legal or regulatory compliance, consumer protection and intellectual property claims.
If the app doesn’t meet a warranty that applies to it, you can tell Apple, and Apple will refund the price you paid for it, if any. To the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app.
You confirm you aren’t in a country under a United States embargo and aren’t on a United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Apple and its subsidiaries can enforce these terms against you as third-party beneficiaries.

The legal part

NextGame is provided as is. We work to keep it reliable but don’t promise it will always be available or error-free, and we aren’t liable for a game night that doesn’t go to plan, or for what people do at one.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or changes any right, remedy or guarantee you have under the Australian Consumer Law, or under other consumer law where you live, that can’t lawfully be excluded. Where the law lets us limit our liability for failing to meet a consumer guarantee, it is limited to supplying the service again or paying the cost of having it supplied again.

Otherwise, to the extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost data, profit or opportunity, and our total liability for anything to do with NextGame is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and A$100.

If you break these terms or the law while using NextGame and someone makes a claim against us because of it, you’ll cover our reasonable costs of that claim, except to the extent we caused it.

These terms are governed by the laws of South Australia, Australia, and disputes go to its courts. If a part of these terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies.

Changes

We may update these terms. We’ll change the date above and, before a change that matters takes effect, tell you in the app. If you keep using NextGame after that, the new terms apply; if you don’t agree, you can delete your account.

NextGame is made by NextGame, Adelaide, Australia. Questions: admin@nextgame.now.