We believe that publishers should not have a financial relationship with the people who review their games. We think this is better for gamers, better for reviewers, and encourages publishers to publish better games.

We don’t enter into any kind of financial relationship with the content creators who review our games. We provide one free copy of a game to the reviewers we choose to work with.

We pay select content creators for informational how-to-play videos and Kickstarter preview content, but we do not solicit reviews or opinions from those creators.

Sinister Fish Games compensates event crew at a higher rate than the UK’s National Living Wage for workers aged 25 & over, and provides accommodation as required. Playtesters are currently not paid.

Games are for everyone. Sinister Fish Games does not tolerate sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic or otherwise offensive remarks or behaviour. These constitute harassment, and have no place in our hobby.

We aim to publish games that promote fun & friendship, and we believe in having respect and care for everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion, political belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

In 2022 we funded the planting of 9,000 trees in partnership with TreeSisters.

In 2021 we funded the planting of 15,000 trees in partnership with TreeSisters.

In 2020 we made a donation to Black Lives Matter UK, and became corporate sponsors of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust (now Blueprint for All) and the Pathways Fellowship. We also sponsored the planting and care of 50 trees with Treedom.

In 2019, we planted 50 trees with #TeamTrees.