Built for developers tired of shipping into the void.
One developer. One mission. No funding, no hype, no AI-generated fluff.
MetaBuff is a market intelligence tool for indie game developers. It helps you answer the three questions that actually matter before you commit months to a project: is there demand? how crowded is the niche? what are winners doing differently?
Every data point comes from publicly available sources. Every score is computed transparently from documented formulas. No black-box machine learning dressed up as insight. If you want to know how a number was calculated, you can read the exact code on the metrics documentation page.
Why this exists
Most market research tools for game developers are either built for AAA publishers (priced accordingly), or they're thin wrappers on SteamDB with lifestyle branding. Neither helps a solo developer decide whether their cozy crafting roguelike has room to breathe in a 156-game niche.
MetaBuff is the tool I wished existed when I was prototyping ideas that turned out to be launching into a saturated market. It's built by someone who has eaten that loss personally — so the goal is specific, opinionated guidance, not generic dashboards.
What we promise
Who I am
Just one developer working under the pseudonym Codence, building MetaBuff in public between day-job hours. With a deep personal annoyance at the state of market-research tools for indies.
If you have questions, criticism, or a niche you want analyzed, hello@metabuff.dev is the best way to reach me. Every email gets read. Most get a reply within a day.
What we don't do
We don't predict hits. Nobody can, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What we do is surface the quantitative signals that experienced developers weight when evaluating an idea: demand trends, competitive density, pricing patterns, review velocity. The decision stays yours.
We don't sell your data. Ever. Your saved analyses, your search history, your email — none of it goes to advertisers, partners, or analytics networks. See the privacy policy for the specifics.
We're not affiliated with Valve or Steam. MetaBuff reads from publicly available endpoints. Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks of Valve Corporation. Revenue figures are projections derived from review counts and price — they are not actual sales data and should not be treated as financial advice.
