Content restrictions apply across Epic’s games and services
Epic’s Content Guidelines restrict what people can share or transmit through its games and services, with the stated aim of making its ecosystem welcoming to a diverse audience.
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Epic’s games and services let you create and share content with a wide and diverse audience. We want the Epic ecosystem to be welcoming for everyone, so certain content can’t be shared or transmitted through our services.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Discriminatory and hateful content is restricted
Content should not demean, dehumanize, marginalize, use hateful language against, or perpetuate negative stereotypes about users or groups based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, or age. Epic also says content promoting or encouraging intolerance or discrimination will not be allowed.
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Content should not demean, dehumanize, marginalize, use hateful language against, or perpetuate negative stereotypes about other users or groups on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, or age. Content that promotes or encourages intolerance or discrimination will not be allowed.
Qualifications & exceptions
The listed bases identify the scope of the rule against demeaning treatment, hateful language and negative stereotypes.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Pornography and explicit child nudity are not allowed
Epic does not allow content including pornography or explicit child nudity. The marketplace permission for mature content does not lift either prohibition.
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We do not allow content that includes pornography or explicit child nudity.
Some examples of content that is never allowed include: pornography, explicit child nudity, and (except in historical educational content) real-world torture, death, or mutilation.
Cross-references
contrast (model-proposed): Epic marketplaces allow some mature content with audience restrictions — Epic marketplaces allow non-pornographic sexually explicit content and artistic adult nudity, while pornography and explicit child nudity remain prohibited. These are distinct boundaries within the mature-content permission, not a finding that the rules conflict.
Real-world torture, death or mutilation is restricted
Content depicting real-world torture, death or mutilation is prohibited, except in historical educational contexts. The same exception is retained in the marketplace rules; permission for mature graphic violence and gore does not eliminate this limit.
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We do not allow content that depicts real-world torture, death, or mutilation, except in historical educational contexts.
Some examples of content that is never allowed include: pornography, explicit child nudity, and (except in historical educational content) real-world torture, death, or mutilation.
Do not depict or promote the listed illegal activities
The guidelines prohibit depicting or promoting illegal activities, giving these examples: real-world violence and assault, threats against real-world people, sexual content illegal under applicable law, and child sexual abuse material. The list is introduced as examples rather than an exhaustive definition.
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Do not depict or promote illegal activities such as:
Real-world violence and assault
Threats against real-world people
Sexual content defined as illegal by applicable law
Child sexual abuse material
Qualifications & exceptions
The violence and threats examples concern real-world acts or people; the sexual-content example depends on applicable law.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Do not promote child grooming or animal cruelty, even in fiction
Epic prohibits promoting illegal activities even if fictional, specifically listing child grooming and animal cruelty. This passage addresses promotion; it does not state that every fictional depiction of these subjects is banned.
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Do not promote illegal activities (even if fictional):
Child grooming
Animal cruelty
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Do not encourage or endorse real-world illegal acts or organizations
The guidelines prohibit encouraging or endorsing real-world illegal activities or organizations. Examples are doxing, fraud, harassment, swatting, hacking, terrorist organizations or terrorism, gangs or gang violence, bullying, and digital piracy. This list is framed around encouragement or endorsement, not a blanket prohibition on mentioning these subjects.
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Do not encourage or endorse real-world illegal activities or organizations such as:
Doxing
Fraud
Harassment
Swatting
Hacking
Terrorist organizations or terrorism
Gangs or gang violence
Bullying
Digital piracy
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Content you create, publish or use must respect others’ rights
Content users create, publish or use cannot infringe or violate someone else’s rights, including intellectual property rights. The rule is not limited to intellectual property.
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The content you create, publish, or use cannot infringe or violate someone else's rights, including their intellectual property rights.
You need rights broad enough for Epic to display your content
Users must own or have obtained the necessary rights to share and publish content. If relying on a license, that license must be broad enough to let the user grant Epic a license to display it. This describes the rights users need; it does not itself specify a display license’s duration or other detailed terms.
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You must own or have obtained the necessary rights to share and publish the content, and any such license must be broad enough to grant Epic a license to display the content.
Qualifications & exceptions
A license relied on to share and publish must permit a display license to Epic.
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The detailed scope and duration of Epic’s display license are not supplied here.
Epic marketplaces allow some mature content with audience restrictions
Mature content targets people aged 18 or older and is not suitable for all audiences. Epic marketplaces, such as Epic Games Store and Fab, allow it but restrict it from general-audience view. Allowed examples include non-pornographic sexually explicit content, non-pornographic artistic adult nudity, graphic violence, gore, hard profanity, drugs, gambling and alcohol. Pornography and explicit child nudity remain prohibited, as do real-world torture, death or mutilation except in historical educational content. This marketplace permission does not establish the same allowance in every Epic game or service.
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Mature content is allowed in Epic Marketplaces (such as Epic Games Store, Fab), but is restricted from general audience view. Mature content is content that targets 18+ and is therefore not suitable for all audiences. Mature content allowed in Epic Marketplaces includes: non-pornographic sexually explicit content, non-pornographic artistic adult nudity, graphic violence, gore, hard profanity, drugs, gambling, and alcohol. Some examples of content that is never allowed include: pornography, explicit child nudity, and (except in historical educational content) real-world torture, death, or mutilation.
Qualifications & exceptions
Mature content targets 18+ audiences and is restricted from general-audience view.
Pornography and explicit child nudity remain banned; real-world torture, death or mutilation is allowed only in historical educational content.
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The guidelines do not explain how the general-audience restriction is implemented.
Cross-references
contrast (model-proposed): Pornography and explicit child nudity are not allowed — Epic marketplaces allow non-pornographic sexually explicit content and artistic adult nudity, while pornography and explicit child nudity remain prohibited. These are distinct boundaries within the mature-content permission, not a finding that the rules conflict.
qualified by (model-proposed): Real-world torture, death or mutilation is restricted — Permission for mature graphic violence and gore does not remove the prohibition on real-world torture, death or mutilation, except in historical educational content.
Content & IP Rights · Context
Epic links additional community and game-specific resources
The guidelines direct readers to the Epic Games Community Rules, Rocket League Code of Conduct and Fortnite Island Creative Rules as additional resources. Those linked documents are not supplied here, so their specific requirements are not part of this analysis.
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In addition to our main Content Guidelines, check out these additional resources: