Safety & Moderation
Last updated: 15 July 2026.
The short version
Pugamochi is meant to be gentle and safe. It is a quiet game about caring for a pug — not a social network.
There is no chat, no comments, and no messaging between players. You cannot be contacted by other people here.
The only thing players share is adventures for the community library, and every adventure is read by a moderator before anyone else can see it.
If you ever see something that shouldn’t be here, use the Report button on the adventure. We look at every report and remove anything that breaks these rules.
1. Our approach to safety
Pugamochi is designed to be calm. The pug never decays and never dies, there are no streaks or scores, and nothing pressures you to keep coming back. The same care goes into keeping the community side of the game gentle and safe.
Two design choices do most of that work:
- Nobody can contact you. There are no direct messages, no comments, no replies, no public profiles, and no live chat. Other players cannot message you, follow you, or reach you in any way.
- Everything is checked before it is shared. The only content that travels between players is a submitted adventure, and a human moderator reviews every one before it can appear to anyone else.
2. What you can share
If you want to, you can write an adventure — a short title, a story, and an optional picture — and submit it to the community library. If a moderator approves it, it may later appear in other players’ scrapbooks as one of their pug’s adventures.
Good adventures are gentle, whimsical, and in keeping with Pugamochi: little tales of a pug pottering about, noticing the seasons, finding small treasures, and enjoying the world. Kindness fits here.
3. What is not allowed
Please do not submit an adventure (in the words, the title, the image, or any link) that includes:
- anything illegal, or anything that encourages or helps others break the law;
- content that is sexual or pornographic, or that sexualises children in any way;
- content that encourages or gives instructions for suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders;
- hateful, abusive, or discriminatory content, or content that bullies, harasses, or targets a person or group;
- content depicting or encouraging serious violence, cruelty (including cruelty to animals), dangerous “challenges”, or the misuse of drugs, weapons, or other harmful substances;
- other people’s personal information, or an image of a real, identifiable person shared without their consent;
- spam, advertising, scams, or links to harmful, deceptive, or inappropriate websites;
- anything frightening, distressing, or plainly unsuitable for a gentle game that younger players enjoy.
When in doubt, keep it kind and keep it cosy. Content that doesn’t fit the spirit of Pugamochi may simply not be approved, even if it isn’t on this list.
4. How moderation works
Every adventure is reviewed by a moderator before it can be seen by anyone else. When you submit an adventure it goes into a private queue, not straight into the game. A moderator reads the words, looks at the image, and checks any links before deciding whether to approve it. This means nothing reaches another player — including younger players — without a person having looked at it first.
If an adventure breaks the rules above, it is not approved. We may also take action on the account that submitted it, up to and including removing the ability to submit, or closing the account, for repeated or serious breaches.
5. Reporting something
If an approved adventure appears in your scrapbook and you think it shouldn’t be here, you can tell us. Every adventure has a Report control: open it, choose a reason, and send it. You do not need to explain yourself at length — a quick report is enough for us to take a look.
To keep reporting working well for everyone, we limit how many reports can be sent in a short space of time. If you hit that limit, please wait a little while and try again.
6. What we do about reports
We look at every report. If the content breaks these rules we remove it from the community library and from the scrapbooks it has reached, and we may take action on the account that submitted it. If something is reported but turns out to be fine, we leave it in place.
We keep records of the reports we receive and the action we take, so that we can be consistent and account for our decisions.
7. Illegal content and protecting children
Some content is never acceptable and is treated with zero tolerance — in particular child sexual abuse material, terrorist content, and content encouraging suicide or serious harm. Where we find content of this kind we remove it, close the account involved, and where appropriate report it to the relevant authorities. We will cooperate with law enforcement where we are required to.
Pugamochi is intended for people aged 13 and over. Because the game is gentle and appealing to younger people, we take content that could harm children particularly seriously in everything above.
8. Keeping yourself safe
Because approved adventures can be seen by other players, please do not put anything private into one. Leave out real names, addresses, your school or workplace, identifiable photos, contact details, or anything else you wouldn’t want a stranger to read. Your email address is never shown to other players, but the words and image you write into an adventure might be.
9. Questions, or disagreeing with a decision
If your adventure wasn’t approved and you’re not sure why, or you think we’ve got a moderation decision wrong, you’re welcome to get in touch. Contact us at pugamochi@drmsite.com and we’ll take another look.
10. Changes to this policy
We keep this page under review and will update the date at the top if we make material changes. This page sits alongside our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.