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StudioScore is made by one person. Write to the address below and a human reads it, usually within a couple of days.
If you are reporting something broken, the name of the game and what you expected to see are usually enough to find it.
Common questions
A game says “Not enough history”
The verdict is about rhythm, and a rhythm needs several updates to measure the gaps between them. A game that shipped its first patch last week has one point on the chart and nothing to compare it to.
This is deliberate. Calling a nine-day-old game “updated regularly” would be a guess, and calling it abandoned would be worse. The verdict appears as soon as there is something real to base it on.
My game has updates on Steam but you do not show them
A post counts as an update only when Steam itself labelled it one. Studios also post announcements, sales, contests and fan art, and Steam files a lot of those in one mixed category. Guessing which of them are really patches by reading the titles got it wrong in both directions when it was tried: missing real patches and flagging sales as updates.
So a studio that never labels its posts will look quieter here than it is. This site would rather understate than invent — and where a studio labels very few of its posts, the game’s page says so beside the chart.
How is the update rhythm worked out?
Each game is compared to itself, not to an average. A game that ships every 4 months is not late at month 3; a game that patches weekly and then goes silent for 5 weeks is. We take the typical gap between that game’s own updates and measure how far past it the current silence has run. Bursts of hotfixes around one release count as a single update. The whole method is here.
Do I have to sign in?
No. Everything measured here is public, and a list started without an account is kept in your own browser. Signing in is for one thing: having the same list on another device.
Why Steam for sign-in?
To know which games are yours, and nothing more. Sign-in goes through Steam’s own OpenID page, so your password is typed on Valve’s site and never here. Steam tells us your SteamID and nothing else: no library, no friends, no purchases.
How do I delete my account?
Your account page → Delete account. That removes your SteamID, nickname, avatar, saved games and session immediately, and it cannot be undone.
If you cannot sign in any more, write to [email protected] and say which Steam account it was.
The price on a game is wrong
Prices are read from Steam on a schedule, not at the moment you open the page, so a discount that started or ended in the last few minutes may not have landed yet. Steam’s own store page is always the authority, and that is what the Steam button opens.
Some games are missing from search
Two kinds are left out on purpose: titles Steam has delisted, and titles Steam marks as adult-only or sexually explicit. Everything else in the Steam catalogue is searchable.
Is this made by Valve?
No. StudioScore is independent. It reads Steam’s public interfaces and links back to the Steam store for anything you actually buy.