Terms of Use

Powder Burn Noir, published by Firestorm Interactive · Last updated 10 October 2026

These terms cover the Powder Burn Noir app. Like the privacy policy, they are written in plain words so they can actually be read.

The short version: your first case is free. You can buy cases one at a time and keep them, or subscribe and play everything while your subscription is active. Payments, renewals and refunds are handled by Apple. If a subscription ends, the cases you didn't buy are locked, not deleted, and they come back if you subscribe again.

The licence

The app is licensed to you, not sold, under Apple's Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement. That agreement is the licence for the app. These terms add the details that are particular to Powder Burn Noir, and where the two differ, Apple's agreement applies.

What you can get

Your first case

One case comes with the app, free. It is yours to play as often as you like, and it stays with the app if you delete and reinstall it.

Buying cases

• A single case is a one-time purchase. It is yours to keep, with or without a subscription.
• The Casebook is a one-time purchase of every case the game launched with. Cases released after launch, including each month's new case, are not part of it. They can be bought on their own, or played with a subscription.
• Bought cases are tied to your Apple Account. To get them back on a new device, or after reinstalling, use Restore Purchases in the app.

Subscribing

A subscription opens every case in the app while it is active: the cases the game launched with, each month's new case, and new cases as they are added. Whatever you have bought stays yours whether you subscribe or not.

How subscriptions work

Subscriptions are available monthly or yearly. The price and the length of each plan are shown in the app before you confirm, in your own currency.

• Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase.
• Renewal is automatic. Your subscription renews at the same length and price unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the current period ends.
• To cancel or change your plan, open Settings on your iPhone, tap your name, then Subscriptions. You can also manage it in the App Store under your account. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
• Cancelling stops the next renewal. You keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for.

When a subscription ends

Every case you didn't buy outright is locked. Nothing is deleted: locked cases stay in the app, and they open again if you subscribe again. Cases you bought, and your free first case, are not affected.

The reason is simple. Every game sends what you say to our server so the suspects can answer, and that costs us money each time. A subscription pays for that. A case you bought paid for its own.

Refunds

All purchases are made through the App Store, so refunds are handled by Apple under Apple's rules, not by us. You can request one at reportaproblem.apple.com. If something in the game has gone wrong, write to us as well, and we will do what we can.

Playing the game

• It needs an internet connection. The suspects' replies are generated at the time you ask, by an AI model on our server. Without a connection, a game can't be played.
• The suspects are AI. Their answers are made up on the spot, inside the story. Sometimes one will say something odd or get a detail wrong. Tell us when it happens: it is the most useful thing you can send.
• It is fiction. The cases are murder mysteries set in the 1940s and 1950s, with the themes that come with them. The game is meant for adults and older teenagers.
• Please play fair with the service. Don't try to get around the purchase system, copy or resell the cases, or use the app to send our server anything other than the game. We may stop the service working for anyone who does.

Changes to the game

We will keep improving the game, and that can mean changing how it plays, fixing cases, or retiring a feature. Cases you bought, or have access to through a subscription, stay playable for as long as the game is offered. If the service ever had to end, we would say so in the app and to the mailing list well in advance.

If these terms change in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it, and the app will tell you before a change affects anything you have paid for.

Privacy

What the game sends, and what we keep, is set out in the privacy policy.

Who to write to

Firestorm Interactive
hello@powderburngame.com