Child-safety enforcement
A regulator, court or settlement has dealt with harm to children, their privacy, or marketing aimed at them.
Harm to children is the most serious thing a company's record can show, and here a regulator, court or settlement has dealt with it.
What it means
An official body has acted over how the company treated children: collecting their data without a parent's consent, exposing them to strangers through default settings, failing to stop exploitation on its platform, or pushing purchases at them. The action may be a fine, a court order or a settlement, and the badge sits on the company whichever of its games was involved.
How we apply it
We add it where the subject is harm to or exploitation of children, children's privacy (such as COPPA in the US or the GDPR's rules for children), or marketing aimed at children. It needs a regulator's action, a court finding, or a settlement that includes a payment or an admission; a private settlement that only requires changes to a game, with neither, goes on the track record as an event. Allegations, lawsuits still in progress and news reports alone don't earn it either, and the note says what happened.
Companies in the guide with it
- Epic Games
FTC, December 2022: $275 million COPPA penalty over Fortnite collecting under-13s' data and default-on voice and text chat, settled without admitting wrongdoing; Dutch ACM, May 2024: fined €562,500 over in-game ads urging children to buy, upheld by the Rotterdam District Court in January 2026.
Developer and publisher · United States · 1 game in the guide - HoYoverse
US FTC and Justice Department, January 2025: HoYoverse agreed to a $20 million civil penalty to settle allegations that Genshin Impact collected under-13s' data without parental consent (COPPA); proposed order filed for court approval. HoYoverse said many of the allegations were inaccurate.
Developer and publisher · China · 2 games in the guide - Microsoft Gaming (Xbox)
US FTC, June 2023: Microsoft agreed to pay $20 million to settle charges that Xbox sign-ups collected children's data without parental consent (COPPA).
Developer and publisher · United States · 0 games in the guide - Moon Active
State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia and KJM, April 2020: proceedings over Coin Master's purchase appeals to children ended with minors blocked in Germany.
Developer and publisher · Israel · 1 game in the guide - Roblox Corporation
Nevada Attorney General, April 2026: agreement, reached without a lawsuit, to pay more than $12 million and adopt age checks and chat limits; by October 2026 Roblox had also settled with Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, South Dakota and West Virginia. Pending lawsuits and investigations are on the track record and are not counted here.
Developer and publisher · United States · 1 game in the guide