ABOUT GAME ORACLE
Why We Built Game Oracle
Thousands of new games are released on Steam every year and it’s becoming increasingly
difficult to find the types of games that players are looking for, but no one is making.
Game Oracle was built to help indie game developers make sense of the huge amounts of data
that Steam has to offer and see beyond immediate trends.
Instead of just delivering you the data, we wanted to offer real, actionable insights that
could be turned into games, so we've developed statistical models to analyse the labels, tags, genre and
description of every current and upcoming game on Steam.
The result? A truly unique map of Steam that evolves with every new game uploaded to the
platform.
Ross Burton, PhD
Ross is the Head of Product and Data with over seven years of experience in data science and
machine learning. An avid gamer since the 90s, Ross made his first game in VB.Net when he
was 17 years old and has since taught himself seven programming languages over the course of
his career.
While starting his own indie game studio, Naughty Wasp, in February 2024, Ross discovered
the importance of market research during development. He found that current platforms
provided a lot of data to look at, but no answers. He developed Data Explorer and Game Gap
to provide some answers.
