Product updates, release notes, and practical guides on game analytics, player data, and progression tracking from the Game Stats AI team.
By Mike Dalton ·
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Which analytics tools let Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor query your game data over MCP: hosting, sign-in, read or write access, and cost for each server.
How the Steam reviews-to-sales ratio works, how it has changed since 2015, and what 36 games with officially reported sales say about the 30x rule.
How premium, DLC, in-app purchases, ads, subscriptions, and battle passes earn money, and the numbers that show whether each one works in your game.
Fixes for players who leave after the first session, the first week, or the first month, and how to tell from your cohorts whether a change worked.
Firebase Analytics is free with no MAU limit, but it caps distinct events at 500 and BigQuery export at 1 million a day. What games need to know.
PlayFab is free in Development Mode up to 1,000 players, then $0, $99, or $1,999 a month plus metered usage. What events cost and when to switch.
Valve keeps 30% of a game's Steam revenue up to $10 million, then 25% and 20%. What counts toward the tiers, what comes out first, and the average cut.
GameAnalytics is free with no MAU limit. What AnalyticsIQ Pro and PipelineIQ add, how long event data is kept, the event limits, and when to switch.
Formulas, a worked example, why daily and monthly values differ, a SQL query, and cumulative ARPU by day 7 and 30 as the measured part of LTV.
How D1, D7, and D30 retention are calculated, the details that change the number, a SQL query you can run, and published benchmarks for mobile and PC games.
How to calculate DAU/MAU with a SQL query, why launch and new players change it, what the 2025 PC benchmarks show, and how to read it next to DAU and MAU.
Formulas for retention, engagement, gameplay, and revenue metrics, 2025 engagement benchmarks, and which KPIs to watch before and after launch.
Real API responses for client and server tokens, which one belongs in a game build, and why browser origins do not protect a token that leaks.
Send each match's map and winning side to Game Stats AI, build an attribute report of attack win rate by map, and check map balance across versions.
Unity Analytics is free up to 50,000 MAU, then $0.0036 per MAU. What the fair use limits cover, why events get rejected, and when to switch tools.
Send your cards and matches, choose which cards define an archetype, and compare each archetype's win rate between two versions of your card game.
Which numbers show whether a game is balanced, how to read win rate and pick rate together, how many matches you need, and how to check a patch worked.
Send achievement events from a Unity 6 game with UnityWebRequest and a coroutine, and save unlocks to disk so the ones made offline are sent later.
AWS puts a game analytics pipeline at $66 to $253 a month before engineering time. The parts to build, the smallest useful version, and when to buy instead.
Compare GameAnalytics, Unity Analytics, Firebase, devtodev, PlayFab, Satori, Mixpanel, Amplitude, and Game Stats AI on price, engines, and data access.
Send achievement events from a Phaser 4 browser game with fetch, allow your game's origin so the browser does not block them, and queue unlocks offline.
Send match results to Game Stats AI, build a character report with win rate, wins, and losses, and compare each character's win rate across balance patches.
Send a progression event when each level starts and finishes, then use a progression report to compare completion rates and spot the level where players stop.
Connect Claude Code to the Game Stats AI MCP server with a server token, then ask about win rates and balance patches and get answers from your reports.
Send achievement events to Game Stats AI from Godot 4 with an autoload, an HTTPRequest node, and a save file that keeps unlocks safe while players are offline.
Send achievement events to Game Stats AI from a C++ backend using Drogon's HTTP client and JSON, with dependencies pulled in by CMake FetchContent.
Send achievement events to Game Stats AI from a Go backend using only net/http, encoding/json struct tags, and environment-based configuration.
Send achievement events to Game Stats AI from Spring Boot with a RestClient bean, Jackson records, and environment-based configuration.
Send achievement events to Game Stats AI from ASP.NET Core with a typed HttpClient, System.Text.Json records, and configuration-based secrets.
A guide to sending achievement events from a LÖVE 2D game using a JSON library, LÖVE 12's https module, and a worker thread to protect your frame rate.
Game Stats AI turns gameplay events into actionable feedback for game developers. No data pipeline required.
