About KillScore

 The Philosophy

 Game development is plagued by confirmation bias. Developers fall in love with their ideas, studios double down on sunk costs, and investors rely on subjective pitch decks. The result is millions of dollars and thousands of hours wasted on games that the market had already rejected in concept. 

 KillScore was built to eliminate emotional decision-making from product validation. 

 What We Do 

We build deterministic decision engines for game concepts. By evaluating market positioning against a live index of 127,000+ Steam titles, KillScore separates generative AI hype from hard market arithmetic.

Large language models are persuasive and inconsistent. They tell creators what they want to hear. KillScore splits the analysis in two. While AI evaluates thematic nuances, our underlying engine runs cold arithmetic on market saturation, competition density, and demand signals.

The core output is not an opinionated report. It is a single, repeatable metric that yields a clear directive: BUILD, PIVOT, or KILL.

A bad game idea does not become a good game after two years of development. It just becomes an expensive lesson.

We provide studios, publishers, and investors with a rigorous reality check before the first line of code is written or the first dollar is allocated. Lowering your risk is not about stopping ambition. It is about saving your resources for the games that actually have a path to success.