ONE EVIDENCE ENGINE
We connect player behaviour, community signals, emotional intensity, and market context into a single, calibrated evidence layer — structured, attributable, and built for the decisions that actually matter.
DECISION INTELLIGENCE,IN PRACTICE.
FROM CLUTTER TO CLARITY. FROM NOISE TO KNOWING.
FROM ANALYSIS TO ACTION.
The pressure to make better and faster decisions has never been greater. The certainty to make them confidently has never been harder to find.
GameDataCore is the decision intelligence layer for the games industry, connecting player behaviour, community signals, and market context into attributable evidence you can stand behind.
Most development decisions are made in uncertainty: They shouldn't be.
We turn player signals into the kind of evidence you can rely upon, and act upon.
WHAT'S INSIDETHE PLATFORM
- CoreFeedback
Understand what your players really think, and know where to act first.
CoreFeedback brings every review, comment, and community signal into one place and ranks them by impact — so your team can focus the roadmap on the changes that will matter most to your audience.
- CoreProfile
Know who's actually playing — and who you share with the competition.
CoreProfile turns review authors into a clear picture of your audience: their experience, habits, and preferences, plus how much they overlap with the comps you care about. Product, marketing, and live ops can finally plan against the same shared view of the player.
- CoreDatabase
The whole Steam catalogue, ready to explore inside your workspace.
CoreDatabase gives you the market context every project needs — competing titles, genre neighbours, and audience crossover — with Quick Analyze built in when you want to dig deeper into a specific game or gap. No tab-hopping, no one-off exports.
- CoreDecisions
Keep the thinking behind every decision, right next to the evidence.
CoreDecisions captures the calls you make and links them to the signals that informed them, with a lightweight daily pulse to track how things are playing out. A month later, the team still knows why — not just what — was decided.
- Ask
Get clear answers from your own evidence, faster.
Ask is an in-product assistant that knows the page you're on and works directly against your data — reviews, profiles, clusters, insights. You get grounded, cited answers and the next sensible step, not generic advice from a model that's never seen your game.
- CoreReports
Turn your analysis into something the wider team can actually read.
CoreReports is the notebook, template, and export layer that shapes your evidence into briefings, summaries, and share-outs — with citations back to the source. Stakeholders who weren't in the room get the story; nothing gets lost on the way out.
ONE EVIDENCE ENGINE,SUPPORTING THE WHOLE DEVELOPMENT ARC.
For studios finding their audience, and teams ready to understand the players they already have.
Before your first player.
Before a single line of code is written, the questions that matter most are already forming. Who is this for? Does the idea fit the market? Is there a real audience waiting? GameDataCore gives early-stage and pre-production teams the orientation they need to move forward with confidence. Prospective audience analysis, genre whitespace, comparable title signals, and unmet player needs, structured into evidence that shapes creative direction before commitments become costly.
Once your players are playing.
Real players leave real signals. In their reviews, their behaviour, their community discussions, their silence. Most of it goes unread, is misunderstood, or gets reduced to a score. GameDataCore surfaces what players are actually experiencing: their emotions, motivations, frustrations, and loyalties. Not as sentiment data, but as structured, attributable intelligence your whole team can reason from and act on.
Whether you're building toward a new audience or learning from an existing one.
The signal was always there. GameDataCore turns it into something you can decide from.
How it works — and why it compounds
GameDataCore is built around a single evidence engine that deepens over time. Each Core is not a separate product. It is a new entry point into the same underlying system, unlocking a higher level of decision confidence as your needs grow. The earlier you start, the more the model knows. The more it knows, the more reliable every decision becomes.
BUILT FOR REAL DECISIONS
Give design, production, marketing, and leadership a shared evidence base. Align creative intent, delivery constraints, and market reality before decisions become irreversible.
ANY GAME, NOT JUST YOURS
Analyse your own titles, a close comparator, or any released game with sufficient data. Comparative context is not optional. It is foundational.
CONFIDENCE, NOT ANSWERS
GameDataCore does not tell you what to do. It shows you what the evidence says, how strong it is, and where uncertainty remains. Creative judgment stays in the loop.
THE SYSTEM LEARNS ACROSS TEAMS
Every Core is a different entry point into the same underlying system. As more studios use it, behavioural baselines sharpen, archetypes stabilise, and the model improves. Shared intelligence, not isolated analytics.
DESIGNED TO AVOID THE WRONG THINGS
Every signal is interpreted through calibrated psychological, behavioural, and comparative baselines. Not raw metrics. Not black-box scores.
For publishing, portfolio, and investment calls where internal dashboards are not enough — see Commissioned Decision Assessments.
Higher-stakes decisions
When the room needsdefensible evidence, not another deck.
Commissioned Decision Assessments answer a defined strategic question with real player behaviour, explicit uncertainty, and outputs built for scrutiny — Directional Brief plus Defensibility Pack.
Recommendation rate by event
A licensed DLC drove approval to 89.8%; a branded crossover event saw a 16.3pp drop to 73.5% — the evidence that supported validating thematic fit before future partnerships.
Source: Commissioned assessment
From commissioned assessments — see proof of range for full context.
HOW WE THINK ABOUT THE WORK
Clarity over noise · Truth over assumption · Action over analysis
We lead with outcomes — emotional, functional, psychological — not feature lists you have to decode.
THE INTELLIGENCE ARC
Because good decisions are not moments. They are the result of a process.
Observe
What are players actually telling you? Surface structured signal from reviews, community discussion, and behavioural data.
Discover
Who is your audience, really? Map motivational archetypes, segment behaviour, and identify who you are building for.
Discern
What does the evidence actually mean? Separate noise from material risk. Understand causes, not just patterns.
Decide
Which direction does the evidence support? Compare scenarios, weigh confidence, and move forward with something you can stand behind.
Validate
Did the decision hold? Track outcomes against predictions and improve the model and method for next time.
Earned Not Theorised
MOST GAME DECISIONS ARE MADE IN UNCERTAINTY
Disconnected tools, unstructured feedback, gut sold as insight. We're for evidence that informs — and creativity that still decides.
WE DID NOT START WITH A THEORY
We shipped games, pitched, raised, watched the same pattern: good signals, then friction when commitments got real — often because audience and risk weren't defensible in the room. So we built what we needed.
THE GAP
The market doesn't need more dashboards. It needs fewer bad decisions.
What teams say
“Working with GameDataCore helped us look beyond surface-level performance and understand what was really driving player response over time. The analysis didn't just confirm that players were broadly positive — it highlighted where expectations, comprehension, and confidence were starting to drift in ways that aren't obvious from headline scores or sales alone. That gave us a clearer, defensible basis for deciding where to invest, what to prioritise, and how to communicate those choices with confidence both internally and externally.”
Shaun Lewis
Director of Ops, Wales Interactive
“GameDataCore helped us more clearly understand our audience and to talk about our work with more clarity and conviction. The analysis didn't just confirm that players loved the game and why, but showed who they were, their thoughtful and discerning nature, and why their praise carries so much weight. That insight helped us move away from positioning the game as 'family-friendly' and instead stand confidently behind it as a prestigious narrative indie. GameDataCore provided the evidence and support to help us reposition the game, refine our messaging, and clearly articulate the strength of our track record as a studio, which has put us in a stronger position for our new project.”
Mark Backler
Founder, Sketchbook Games
PricingSeats & processing credits
Per-seat plans with monthly credits and optional top-ups. Ingestion doesn't spend credits — plan caps only. Credits pay for automated work (classification, Ask, accepted outputs, reports). Details on the pricing page.
- Starter £50/seat/mo · Pro £250/seat/mo — same platform, different limits (credits, games, ingest caps).
- Top-ups from about £0.025/credit down to about £0.021 at volume; enterprise for large buys.
- Full tiers, packs, and what burns credits — Pricing.
From player signal to confident decisions.
The next call should rest on evidence, not optics.