For independent studios

Find the weak sentence before players do

A private, source-checked audit of your Steam demo page. We trace what the page promises, where it asks readers to infer, and which changes deserve attention first.

€190plus applicable VAT · one fixed-scope audit
Ask for an audit

No payment is taken before scope, delivery date and price are confirmed in writing.

Original illustration of a bright game review desk with a magnifying glass, checklist and controller

A second pair of eyes, with receipts

Your store page has to explain a build, set a boundary and earn a download in a few screens. Familiarity makes omissions invisible. We read it as a skeptical player would, then attach each finding to the exact sentence, field or missing source that caused it.

01Claim ledgerPromises separated from checked facts, open questions and risky absolutes.
02Scope clarityWhat is free, playable now, platform-bound and actually inside the demo.
03Player frictionMissing context around access, requirements, languages, AI disclosure and next actions.
04Priority passA short ordered list: change now, verify next, leave alone.

How the first audit works

  1. 1
    Send the public Steam URL.

    Add the demo boundary you intend players to understand and any deadline we should know.

  2. 2
    We confirm the boundary.

    You receive the exact scope, delivery date and €190 price in writing before an invoice exists.

  3. 3
    You receive a private report.

    It includes the source ledger, findings and prioritized changes. One clarification pass is included.

What that reading looks like in public

We do this in the open every day, unpaid and uninvited. These are store pages we read closely for our own readers, with the facts, the studio's claims and our judgement kept visibly apart, and with a section in each one listing what we could not check:

  • Low-Budget Repairs: a 30 GB download and a release date sixteen days after the demo, in a week where everything else fit in a gigabyte.
  • Folder Dungeon: not one published hardware figure, and five genre tags on a single roguelike.
  • Dead Prints: a page whose own first sentence says psychological horror, filed under Indie and Simulation.

Those three findings cost the studios nothing and were published without asking. An audit is the same reading applied to your page before it is public, in private, and in full.

The editorial wall stays standing

This service buys a private audit. It never buys attention from readers.

  • No promised coverage, placement, ranking or favorable verdict.
  • No sales, reach, review-score or platform-approval guarantee.
  • No public use of your material unless separately agreed in writing.
  • If vianerds later covers the game independently, payment is disclosed where relevant.

Put one public page under pressure

Email the Steam URL and the one thing players must understand. We will reply with a written boundary before asking you to spend anything.

Email play@vianerds.com