Regulatory and legal FAQ

A contest whose outcome is determined predominantly by the participants’ skill — reflexes, precision, judgement and strategy — rather than by chance. Marathons, chess tournaments and golf competitions are the familiar offline examples: entrants pay to enter, prizes are awarded, and nobody considers them gambling because the better competitor wins.

No. Gambling generally requires three elements together: consideration (a paid entry), a prize, and an outcome determined by chance. Conquest matches have the first two and not the third — the result is the comparison of two players’ scores.

US states apply different tests. The more common dominant factor test asks whether skill predominates over chance. The stricter material element test asks whether chance plays any meaningful part at all. Because those tests differ, paid play is offered only in states where it is lawful.

To United States residents physically located in eligible states. Paid play is not offered in 14 states: Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, South Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee. The current list is here.

Free Practice mode is available everywhere.

Country and US state are derived from your IP address and checked on our servers before a paid match is allowed. The check fails closed: if eligibility cannot be established, paid play is refused.

We do not collect precise GPS location. Using a VPN, proxy or location-spoofing tool to circumvent the check is prohibited by the Terms and is grounds for immediate termination and forfeiture of balances.

18, or the age of majority where you live, whichever is greater, for any paid feature. Age is self-declared at signup and the date of birth is confirmed during identity verification before a first withdrawal. Free Practice mode is not age-gated for paid eligibility.

Another player, wherever one is available at your skill level. Where no live opponent is available, your score is compared against a recorded run previously played by another real person on the same game under the same conditions — a real human score, never generated or simulated, and selected before your own score is known.

We are deliberately explicit about this rather than making a blanket “always live opponents” claim. The mechanics are set out in full here.

Yes, once, before a first withdrawal. A third-party provider collects a government-issued photo ID and a selfie, runs a liveness check, and screens against applicable sanctions and watchlists. This supports our anti-money-laundering and anti-fraud obligations. We do not request proof of address.

Scores are validated on our servers, which are the authoritative record. Competitive matches are screen-recorded to access-controlled storage so a disputed result can be reviewed. Disputes are raised from Settings in the app.

Withdrawals may be reportable. We may need an IRS Form W-9, or W-8BEN / W-8BEN-E for non-US persons, before processing a payout, and where your withdrawals in a calendar year reach the applicable IRS reporting threshold (currently $600) we may issue a Form 1099 and file a copy with the IRS. You are responsible for reporting and paying tax on amounts you receive. We do not give tax advice.

Conquest Arcade is operated by Conquest Labs LLC, a Delaware company, trading as Conquest Arcade. Conquest Labs does not hold, custody or safeguard deposits of user money and is not a bank or money transmitter. Deposits buy on-platform credit; card data is handled exclusively by a payment processor maintaining PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance.

The Privacy Policy sets out what is collected and why. You can delete your account from within the app. Some records are retained where law requires it — tax reporting, anti-money-laundering obligations and payment-dispute windows — and that retention floor is described in the Policy.