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deserves a clear path to success

Evidence-backed analysis on your game, market or thesis. Real data, verified and assembled by real analysts, in days not months.

Already sharpening decisions at

Amplitude Studios
Wargaming
Xsolla
SEGA
Keywords Studios
mod.io
Uppercut Games
Floating Rock
Torpor Games
Outerdawn
Abbey Games
Raw Fury
Amplitude Studios
Wargaming
Xsolla
SEGA
Keywords Studios
mod.io
Uppercut Games
Floating Rock
Torpor Games
Outerdawn
Abbey Games
Raw Fury

The biggest calls in games are still made with fragmented data

It's rough out there. Competition is tougher, capital is tighter and the cost of a wrong call means years of wasted work, layoffs or studio closures.

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games shipped in the last 0 days. Most will struggle to breakeven.

Game intelligence built for decisions, not dashboards

Critical Compass is a purpose-built research and decision system that finds the risks, opportunities and product changes that matter - then shows you what to do next. Built on five years of proprietary research, player intelligence and market evidence, it turns deep games research into practical action.

Know your odds at every stage of development

Whether it's an early pitch or post-launch recovery, we can provide tailored reports to give you the best chance for success.

Amplitude Studios

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The report gave us real insights we could act on - from both a marketing and a design perspective. The findings were inspiring, and the research delivered real value to our project.


Amplitude Studios

Technology should augment people, not exploit them

Critical Compass was built to protect creative teams from preventable risks, poor business decisions and decision paralysis - without replacing the people actually making the game.

Not an LLM wrapper

Critical Compass isn't generic AI wrapped around third-party data. Its intelligence comes from five years of proprietary games research, original datasets and purpose-built analytical systems.

Built on our research, not other people's labour

We don't scrape developer postmortems, community knowledge or the research of our peers and repackage it as expertise. We conduct original research and maintain our own datasets.

Your ideas stay yours

We don't train our systems on client work or generate your game for you. Critical Compass gives creatives better evidence, clearer direction and fewer preventable mistakes - what you make, and how you make it, stays in your hands

We want great games to succeed on the merits of their execution - not fail because of preventable mistakes.

See what Critical Compass can do for you

From development and publishing, to investment and post-launch recovery, see how Critical Compass brings better evidence to the decisions that matter.

Ready to make smarter decisions?