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Terms & Conditions

Gothic Fan Project Contest (August 2025)

When participating in the Gothic Fan Project Contest (Promotion), open from August 01 2025, 03:00 PM CEST through August 10 2025, 11:59 PM CEST, organized by THQ Nordic GmbH, Landstrasser Haupstrasse 1/23, 1030 Vienna, Austria (Organizer or THQ Nordic), the participant accepts the following terms and conditions (T&C):

1. Participation and Exclusion

Participation is allowed for individuals 18 years of age or older. The Promotion is open to legal residents of the European Union. Individuals working at THQ Nordic and members of their family, individuals in any way associated with THQ Nordic, Alkimia Interactive, or their partners and staff working for the Promotion are excluded. For the avoidance of doubt, if several individuals cooperate on one entry, they count as one participant and a prize will only be awarded once.

The Organizer, at its sole discretion, will not accept submissions if: (a) they are automatically generated by computers; (b) are incomplete. A participant may only participate in its own name and one time.

It is the participant's responsibility to complete all information required to join the Promotion. Flawed or incomplete contact information may disqualify the participant from entering.

Entries that are deemed to be unlawful, especially content that promotes racial hatred or violates human dignity, or which may otherwise be harmful to the goodwill and reputation of THQ Nordic will be rejected.

2. How to participate:

We are looking for Gothic Fan Projects of any kind, such as

Submit your entry to us using the following link: https://forms.gle/KV8LMpHMvPKw2w9J7

3. How to win:

4. Prize

The five prizes awarded are:

  1. Gothic 1 Remake’s Collector’s Edition (delivered at launch of the game)
  2. Exclusive Gothic Cookbook – signed by members of the development team
  3. A Steam key for Gothic 1 Remake (delivered at launch of the game)
  4. Gothic Hoodie "Sleeper Mask"
  5. Gothic T-Shirt "Scavenger Dark Grey"

If a participant does not confirm acceptance of the prize within 5 calendar days of dispatch of notification of the prize, the prize will be forfeited. In this case, a substitute winner will be chosen by the jury.

One prize per winner. A winning entry together with the (user)names of the winners will, at Organizer’s discretion, be posted on one or several social media channels as listed in 7. below.

The prize cannot be exchanged or delivered as cash payment. The winner is not allowed to transfer the prize to a third party. The winner must pay all taxes applicable under the tax laws of their country of residence. These taxes are not part of the prize and must be paid by the winner.

5. Warranty Exclusions

As far as the law permits, in no event shall the Organizer, its employees, agents or sales partners be responsible or liable to indemnify prize recipients or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death resulting from participation in the Promotion or the use of the prize. Any limitation of liability in the event of fraud, malice or gross negligence is excluded. A Participant’s statutory rights remain unaffected.

The Organizer does not take on any liability for the availability or functioning of the Promotion.

In no event the Organizer is responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of their obligations under these T&C if the reasons for this are due to circumstances or influences beyond its reasonable control – such as strikes, work stoppages, accidents and interruptions, loss or the malfunction of utilities, communication or computer services (software or hardware) if these circumstances constitute force majeure within the meaning of applicable local law. As far as the law allows, no other terms and conditions, guarantees or other terms apply to the Promotion, and all free products are provided in their actual condition without any express or implied warranty (including, but not limited to, any implied warranty of satisfactory quality or suitability for a particular purpose). With the awarding of the prize, the Organizer is, in any case, released from all obligations.

6. Publicity Rights

By participating in this Promotion, each participant agrees to allow the Organizer to use their username as well as the screenshot for promotional materials and activities on social media channels.

The participant confirms that it holds all regal rights in the postings and declares that by participating in the Promotion no rights of third parties are violated, in particular that the contents of the postings were personally created by the Participant and that no intellectual property rights of any kind (copyrights, personal rights, likeness or registered trademarks etc) are violated in connection with the participation. The Participant declares to indemnify and hold the Organizer harmless against any claims of third parties.

The Participant grants to the Organizer the non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferrable, world-wide and perpetual license to use, modify, reproduce, display, perform, distribute and create derivative works of the contents of the postings in any and all formats on any channel and in any medium, including websites and social media channels managed by the Organizer for the purpose of this contest, publicity, marketing and advertising.

IF a winner chooses to take part in the presentation of the winners at gamescom 2025 in person, the following additionally applies:

During the event, photographs and/or films may be taken by THQ Nordic or on its behalf or by any third parties. By taking part in this event, winner acknowledges that photographs and video material in which you appear may be used for an unlimited time for press coverage and published in any and all media now known or hereafter devised as well as on THQ Nordic websites as well as gamescom websites. Furthermore, the winner accepts all terms and conditions set by the organizers of gamescom 2025 affecting it as communicated in connection with obtaining the entrance ticket to gamescom 2025.

7. Privacy protection

THQ Nordic does not collect any other personal data of a Participant other than the ones provided via the participation form (Google forms). All participants also agree to the respective privacy policy of Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Discord, Steam, X (Twitter) and Bluesky as a winner username may be posted there together with its prize winning screenshot. The prize game is not affiliated with any social media such as Instagram/ Facebook and is in no way sponsored, endorsed or organised by such social media.

The personal data gathered and saved by THQ Nordic is only used to arrange and execute the giveaway.

Moreover, information on how THQ Nordic is permitted to collect, process and store your personal data for the promotion and other purposes can be found in our privacy policy on our homepage at https://thqnordic.com/legal/privacy.

8. Applicable Law, Jurisdiction

Austrian substantial law with the exclusion of conflicts of laws rules, Vienna courts.

9. General

Legal recourse is excluded; no correspondence can be entered into about the Promotion.

The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these T&C shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. In the event that any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, these T&C shall otherwise remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with the terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein.

These T&C can be changed at any time by the Organizer without specific notification or changed accordingly by the provision of corresponding information in the competition. The latest version of these T&C is published on the website of the Organizer. The Organizer reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this Promotion at any time at its sole discretion and without reason.