Terms
What you are agreeing to by using this site, the Greenhouse app, or a membership. Effective 10 November 2026.
The two that matter most
No games are supplied
Greenhouse includes, hosts, mirrors and sells no game. It runs Windows games you already own, downloaded from Steam with your own sign-in, onto your own console. If you do not own a title, Greenhouse cannot play it, and a membership does not change that.
Nothing here promises a title runs
The compatibility database records what happened when we tried, on a named console and a named version, on a named date. It is a record, not a commitment, and a result can stop being true when a game updates or we ship a new version.
What a membership pays for
Continued development: the work of making your own copies run, the signed build, the title configurations, themes and other packages that come with it, and the service that keeps your consoles entitled. That is the whole of it.
It is not a licence to any game, and it is not a place in a queue that anyone has promised to reach. The request queue shows what has been asked for and the state of each item. It deliberately states no rate, because no rate has been measured, and a published rate would be a promise.
A membership covers a limited number of consoles, shown on the membership page and enforced by the service. You can unlink a console from your account and link another.
Money, cancelling, refunds
All of it happens at Patreon. Patreon charges you, Patreon's terms govern the billing, and Patreon's policies govern refunds; we never see or hold a payment method. Cancel at Patreon whenever you like — entitlement ends when the pledge does, and your consoles stop being members at their next check. Nothing is charged by this site.
Because membership runs through Patreon, Patreon's own terms, including its age requirements, apply to taking one out.
What is yours to bring
- Your own Xbox, and your own decision to put it in the developer mode Microsoft provides.
- Your own Microsoft developer registration, and whatever it costs.
- Your own Steam account and your own copies of the games you want to run.
- Keeping to Steam's and Microsoft's terms for that account and that console. Greenhouse does not change what they allow.
What you must not do
- Using Greenhouse to run a game you do not own, or to get around digital rights management or anti-cheat. Titles protected that way are recorded as walls and left alone.
- Redistributing the Greenhouse build, its packages or its content keys, or sharing a membership so other people's consoles are entitled by it.
- Submitting someone else's personal information through the report form, or using the forms and the queue to spam, mislead or attack.
- Taking the compatibility database wholesale and presenting it as your own. Quote it, link it, argue with it — all fine.
We can remove a submission, revoke a console's entitlement or end a membership over any of these. Where it is our mistake rather than yours, say so at playgreenhouse@proton.me and we will put it right.
Availability, and the honest warning
Greenhouse is a small project, run by hand. There is no uptime guarantee; the service, the site and the list of titles that run can all change, and a version that worked can regress. Developer mode itself is Microsoft's feature and Microsoft's to change.
The software is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind, and you use it at your own risk. We are not liable for lost time, lost saves, lost game data or anything else that follows from using it, and nothing in these terms takes away a right you have under the law where you live that cannot be taken away.
Greenhouse is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Microsoft, Valve or any game publisher. Xbox, Windows, Steam and every game name belong to their owners and are used only to say what runs.
Changes, and questions
If these terms change, this page changes and the date at the top moves. Carrying on using Greenhouse after that is how you accept the new version; if you would rather not, cancel at Patreon.
Anything unclear here is worth asking about rather than guessing at: playgreenhouse@proton.me.