Find where devs your size actually win.
MetaBuff is an honest X-ray of the PC games market. We grade every niche and store page from real outcomes — so you commit years of your life to the right game, not the wrong one.
No account required to see the numbers. The diagnosis is free — forever.
Diagnose your idea
in 10 seconds. Free.
Pick the tags you're building toward. The verdict below comes from real market data — no account, no credit card.
Price fit is scored in the app against your niche's real median — not in this preview.
Your market verdict will appear here. Pick 1–4 tags and hit run.
Real market data · refreshed daily · same verdict engine as the app. Estimates from public data — not financial advice.
The market already decided which games win. You just couldn't read it.
Talent isn't the bottleneck for solo and small-team developers — blind spots are. MetaBuff turns the public market into a readable verdict before you commit.
Most indie devs validate their concept after they ship — when the calendar and the bank account have already made the decision for them.
A weak tag set, a mispriced launch, or a saturated niche quietly kills visibility. You feel it as silence, not as a signal you can act on.
Established studios win roughly twice as often in the same niches. MetaBuff shows you exactly where that isn't true — your blue oceans.
We give away the diagnosis.
We charge for the prescription.
Paste a store page URL or describe a concept — "atmospheric metroidvania," "psychological horror story-rich." MetaBuff pulls the live market around it instantly.
A 0–100 Buff Score with the reasons behind it: tag effectiveness, review velocity, price signal, competitor density. The hard numbers and the market verdict, free forever.
The Strategy Dossier turns the verdict into concrete moves — "price at $14.99," "swap this tag," "refresh your capsule art." Exactly which levers to pull, and why.
Four instruments. One honest read on your odds.
Everything runs on the same engine that analyzes 46,000+ games. The matrix below is drawn from today's live saturation data.
Scans 46,000+ games to surface Green Lights and Blue Oceans — undersaturated genre combinations. Know if an idea is financially viable before you build it.
The Buff Score. Drop in any game and get a 0–100 grade that tells you exactly why a store page isn't converting.
See exactly who's fighting you for the same audience — and dissect what the winners in your niche actually did right.
The prescription. An automated, data-backed action plan that names the exact levers to pull — change your price to $14.99, swap this tag, refresh your capsule art. Not advice. Moves.
Real numbers from today's snapshot · the app ranks 22,000+ niches and grades each one for your studio size.
| NICHE | GAMES | SATURATION | SOLO WIN | MEDIAN REV |
|---|
Medians include flagship-led niches — the app's scale lens separates what a dev your size can expect. Estimates from public data, not financial advice.
See the truth for free. Pay only to act on it.
The hard numbers, the raw scores, the verdict.
- ✓The Buff Score (0–100) on any game
- ✓Tag, velocity, price & density breakdowns
- ✓The market verdict — Green Light to Avoid
- ✓Top niches ranked on live data
The step-by-step plan to fix what the diagnosis found.
- ⚿The full Strategy Dossier — exact moves
- ⚿Competitor X-Ray + What-If simulator
- ⚿Concept Lab pre-build feasibility
- ⚿Full niche library + CSV export & API
One plan. Skip the wrong games before you build them.
Every niche, signal, and revenue band — as a verdict, not a spreadsheet.
- ✓Full niche library — not just the top 10
- ✓Strategy Dossier on every game lookup
- ✓Competitor X-Ray + What-If Simulator
- ✓Concept Lab pre-build feasibility
- ✓CSV export · 500 API calls/day
- ✓Daily data updates from 46K+ games
Auto-renews monthly · cancel anytime
✓ 7-day refund — no questions asked
No lock-in · Cancel anytime · Daily data
Questions indie devs actually ask
Is this legal? Are you scraping Steam?+
MetaBuff is built entirely on publicly available market data — the same store pages, review counts, and tag listings anyone can see in a browser. We're an independent analytics tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by Valve or Steam. We never access private sales data.
How accurate are the revenue estimates?+
They're estimates derived from public signals (owners ranges × price), and we treat them that way: medians and bands, not promises. Where we don't have enough data, we show you "—" instead of inventing a number. That honesty rule applies across the whole product.
What's actually free vs. paid?+
Free: the Buff Score on any game, the component breakdowns, the market verdict, and the top niches — the diagnosis. Indie Pro ($9.99/mo): the Strategy Dossier's concrete moves, Competitor X-Ray, What-If simulator, Concept Lab, the full 22K+ niche library, CSV export and the API — the prescription.
Can I use the API in my own tools?+
Yes. Indie Pro includes 500 API calls/day — enough for personal dashboards, custom reports, or feeding your own dev workflow. Free tier gets 50 calls/day. The API is REST + JSON, documented in-app once you sign up.
What happens to my data if I cancel?+
Your account drops back to the free tier and keeps working. Saved niches and lookups stay yours. If you delete your account, we delete your personal data — we're GDPR-compliant and hosted in the EU.
Is this actively maintained?+
Yes — the data pipeline runs daily, and the product ships improvements weekly. MetaBuff is built by an indie dev, for indie devs. The roadmap is driven by what paying users actually need.
Your next niche has a track record.
Read it before you give it a year.
Run a free diagnosis on any game in under a minute. Upgrade only when you're ready to act on what it tells you.