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  • Game Taxonomy Groups games beyond store categories by clustering representations of their text, images and structured data.
  • Production Modeling Estimates every game's development budget from real budgets and observable data, and whether it gets finished.
  • Market Modeling Models demand, competition and the decisions of buyers and producers in game markets.

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  • Comparable Games Market Analysis

    You describe a game, which doesn't need to exist yet. We find the 200 closest games released on Steam and show how they performed.

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  • The State of Profitability in the Video Game Industry

    We estimated the development budget and revenue of 100,000+ Steam games to measure how many recover their budget, and what changes the odds.

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  • Game Industry Salary Report 2026

    What game developers earn worldwide, by role, seniority, country and gender.

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  • Game Scope Classifier

    Place any game on our production scope chart, from Kei to AAA, with its credits and its size on disk.

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