A gneiss sea cliff and wooded headland in LostVale, at morning

Gaddr Games

Buy means buy.

We make LostVale and the Ragnavoxel engine it runs on, and we're building a store where the copy you buy is yours to keep. Developers pay a fee of 1.987%, with nothing hidden in it.


The store

What you buy is yours

On most stores, "buy" means a licence the store can take back. Ours works the other way: every game is a DRM-free copy you keep.

These promises hold for every game on the store, not only our own, because every seller agrees to them before they can list.

  1. A DRM-free copyEvery purchase downloads as a plain archive that runs without the launcher, without an account and without an internet connection.
  2. Perpetual and irrevocableOnce the refund window closes, nobody can take a purchase back, even if the developer delists the game or you close your account.
  3. Keep your files foreverBack up, archive and reinstall as often as you like. If the store ever closes, every owner gets a final download window with plenty of notice.
  4. Leave it to your heirsYour library passes on when you die. Your heir gets every copy, and your account gives up its download rights.
  5. No resale marketCopies can't be resold or passed around. A second-hand market would pay developers nothing and wreck games with online economies and achievements. To give a game, buy it as a gift: a new copy for them.
  6. Two-hour refund windowChanged your mind? Ask for a refund within two hours of buying and you'll get it back in full, with no questions asked.

For developers

1.987%. The rest is the cost of taking a card.

Our fee is 1.987% of the sale. Card processing and sales tax services are passed to the seller at cost and listed line by line on every receipt, so nothing is buried inside the fee.

Any engine is welcome. Games built on Ragnavoxel pay the same 1.987% royalty wherever they're sold, and when they sell here the royalty and the store fee are one charge: 1.987% once, never twice.

What a developer receives from a US$20.00 sale
On a US$20.00 saleGaddr GamesA typical 30% store
Payment processing (at cost, approx.)US$0.88included
Platform feeUS$0.40 (1.987%)US$6.00 (30%)
Developer receives≈ US$18.72 (93.6%)US$14.00 (70%)

Processing shown for a US card at about 2.9% + US$0.30. International cards, currency conversion and tax services cost more and are passed on at cost as well.

Everything in one place

One account, one launcher

The launcher signs you in, keeps your library, and downloads LostVale and the Ragnavoxel engine and editor straight from our own servers.

Updates that fetch only what changed

Releases are split into content-addressed chunks, so a patch downloads only the pieces that are new. Downloads resume, and the launcher can verify and repair an install.

One sign-in everywhere

The same account works on these websites, in the launcher and in the Ragnavoxel Editor. Sign in once on your computer and all three know who you are.

A convenience, never a lock

Your account only decides what you can download. A game you own never checks in to run, and you can always grab the plain archive instead.

Downloads need a Gaddr Games account. Sign in here, then sign in to the launcher with the same account and it installs the game for you.

LostVale-Launcher-0.1.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz, version 0.1.0: SHA-256 7d9d817f7c59ba1466d6dbd5f9dfc947d4c3b674c4e52b9c81a865f3aaff5cffLostVale-Launcher-0.1.0-windows-x86_64.zip, version 0.1.0: SHA-256 ca705cdc6dc306a0259d2d576aed6c83d409174a1eb8ff9c07898ea8c3638200


The lowest fee in games, and the only store where "buy" means buy.