Legal

Notices & Third-Party

Last updated October 1, 2026

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Copyright

Trademarks

Declared Missing is a title of 8-Bit Cache Studios. Trademark registration status is not asserted. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. verify owning entity and registration status before publication

Declared Missing is developed using Unreal® Engine 5. Unreal® is a trademark or registered trademark of Epic Games, Inc. in the United States of America and elsewhere. Epic Games is not affiliated with and does not sponsor or endorse Declared Missing.

Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks of Valve Corporation. No Steam branding is currently used on this website; Valve’s required attribution will be added here if official Steam badges are used.

References to third-party companies, platforms or technology do not imply any partnership, sponsorship, certification or endorsement.

Microsoft Azure PlayFab is a Microsoft service. itch.io is referenced as a planned distribution platform. No platform logos are used here.

Development status

Declared Missing is currently in development. Gameplay systems, characters, abilities, environments, visual presentation, features, release plans, and other content shown on this website are subject to change before release.

Images on this website are in-engine development captures labelled as work in progress. They are not final gameplay footage, and character proxy/test captures are withheld from the public gallery.

A work of fiction

Declared Missing is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, organizations, events, and incidents depicted in the game are either products of the authors' imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is coincidental. The facilities, institutions, organizations, personnel, procedures, and events portrayed are fictional and are not intended to represent any real correctional institution, government agency, law-enforcement organization, or individual.

AI transparency

Studio policy prohibits generative AI in game visual and audio assets. Our production approach combines in-house work and licensed third-party assets, with provenance review before release. AI-assisted tools support engineering, code review, debugging and testing; they do not replace artistic direction or asset production.

AI-assisted tools may be used during software development — for programming, debugging, code analysis, refactoring, implementation assistance and technical research.

Asset licensing

Declared Missing uses a combination of original in-house work and appropriately licensed third-party assets, used under the terms of their respective licenses. Required attributions and package provenance must be verified before release; the final credits are in preparation.

Website software and fonts

This website is built with open-source software. The following components are distributed with the site:

Astro — MIT License. Copyright (c) 2021 Fred K. Schott and Astro contributors.
Big Shoulders Display typeface — SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright The Big Shoulders Project Authors.
IBM Plex Sans Condensed and IBM Plex Mono typefaces — SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright IBM Corp.

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