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GameBrain API

Video game discovery

Video Game Database API / Game Discovery ServicePrague, Czech RepublicBootstrapped2 peopleFounded 2023

Our Take

GameBrain has indexed 775,000 video games in their API — more than double what IGDB publicly lists. For any founder building a gaming app, backlog tracker, or recommendation engine, that's a massive shortcut that could save months of scraping and manual data entry. The move is bold, but I'd spot-check their metadata quality before betting the whole product on it.

Video game database API providing 775,000+ games, search, and machine learning recommendations. Developers can access game data including screenshots, videos, ratings, reviews, similar games, store prices, genres, tags, and themes through a REST API.

Key Features

775,000+ games on 70+ platforms, 767 million user ratings, 122,000+ critic ratings, 4.3 million screenshots, 420,000+ videos, Unique Game Brain Score (GBS) combining user and critic reviews, Screenshots and videos for every game, Review summary with positive/negative summaries, Related and similar games, Links to stores with offer prices, Genres, tags, themes, play modes, Comprehensive semantic search with filters and sorting, Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI chatbots (Claude Desktop, ChatGPT)

Problem It Solves

Helps users find what to play next by cutting through the noise of hundreds of thousands of game titles and providing personalized recommendations. Solves the problem of spending hours reviewing YouTube videos and reviews to pick the next game.

Target Customer

Game developers, businesses building gaming applications, and gamers seeking game recommendations. Both non-commercial hobbyists and commercial enterprises.

Use Cases

Search games by natural language query, Get game suggestions by partial name (autocomplete), Get detailed game information including screenshots, videos, offers, scores, Find similar games to a specific title, Get news about specific games

Pricing Details

Free Plan: $0/month - 50 tokens/day (1,500/month), 1 concurrent request, 60 requests/minute, required backlinks, non-commercial only. High Score Plan: $19/month - 500 tokens/day (15,000/month), $0.007 per additional token, 2 concurrent requests, 2 requests/second, Discord support. God Mode Plan: $139/month - 5,000 tokens/day (150,000/month), $0.003 per additional token, 10 concurrent requests, 5 requests/second, email support. Enterprise: Custom requests up to 10,000,000/month, priority email support.

Free Tier

50 tokens per day (1,500/month), no additional tokens, 1 concurrent request, 60 requests/minute, required backlinks to GameBrain.co, non-commercial projects only

Differentiator

Game Brain Score (GBS) - unique meta score combining thousands of player and critic reviews into a single meaningful score. No other meta score combines that many data points. Also offers MCP (Model Context Protocol) for connecting game data to AI chatbots.

Why Now

AI-powered era with Model Context Protocol (MCP) enabling connection of game data to AI chatbots like Claude Desktop and ChatGPT. New games dropping every week makes game discovery increasingly challenging.

Traction

Notable Metrics: 775,000+ games, 767 million user ratings, 122,000+ critic ratings, 4.3 million screenshots, 420,000+ videos, 70+ platforms

Key Facts

The people behind GameBrain API

David Urbansky

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Co-Founder

PhD in computer science from TU Dresden. Built search engines for over 15 years. Co-founded SEMKNOX (e-commerce search company behind Site Search 360) and led as CEO until its acquisition. Created spoonacular, one of the most widely used food APIs on the web. At GameBrain takes care of the game database, search engine, recommendation logic, and video game API.

Jaroslav Vaňkát

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Co-Founder

Senior full-stack developer based in Prague. Spent years building search products at SEMKNOX and Site Search 360. At GameBrain builds the product from recommendation flows to UI, and stress-tests by gaming.

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