Cheat Detection & Management

Eliminate Cheaters and Improve Your Game’s Bottom Line

In-game cheating is a growing problem that traditional tools can’t solve.
Cheaters outsmart traditional detection tools, disrupting your game’s ecosystem and revenue. Quago combines sensor-based data and a connectivity layer to link users and devices, delivering actionable insights that help you detect cheating with confidence.

Learn More About the Impact of Cheating

When Detection Enables Enforcement

Quago enables confident policy enforcement by delivering the evidence
needed to act decisively. The graph illustrates how accurate detection
supports effective enforcement against cheating.
AAA
Gaming Studios Trust Quago
100M+
Player Interactions Analyzed Daily
10x
Better Recall Rate Than Comparable Alternatives

Optimized Cheat Detection for Every Game Genre

Quago works with the biggest games in the world across multiple genres, including:

Casual, strategy, and
skill-based games, and more
Single-player & multiplayer environments
Tournaments & leaderboards
Cross-platform titles - mobile, PC, and console
Real-money and blockchain-based games

Evidence = Confidence

Unmask cheater accounts with concrete proof. Quago uses sensor-based behavioral data to detect cheating patterns and connectivity models to uncover everything from multiple users on a single device to the growth of coordinated cheating communities.

  • Avoiding false positives is crucial – with the right evidence, you can act decisively without putting engaged players at risk.
  • AI is making cheaters harder to detect – identifying them through sensor data is essential to any studio’s cheat mitigation strategy.

Accurately Distinguish Cheating Types

Not all cheaters are the same, and they shouldn’t be treated equally. Every cheating activity serves a different purpose, and understanding those differences is key to taking the right action. That also includes identifying cases where players can be guided back to fair play.

Quago differentiates between:

  • Commercial cheating operations vs. individual cheaters, applying the right mitigation strategies for each.
  • Coordinated cheating groups, ensuring all linked accounts are identified to map the full impact.
  • Attacks on new account creation, distorting player data.
  • Highly skilled players vs. cheaters – providing clear evidence to distinguish between legitimate performance and cheating, so teams can respond confidently to player complaints.

Remove Cheaters’ Financial Motivation

Cut off cheaters’ financial incentive by disrupting their illicit revenue stream. Quago goes beyond detection to uncover the motives behind cheating and identify who benefits from it. This allows studios to apply the right policies not only to the cheaters themselves, but also to those who benefit from them. Deal effectively with cheaters to save resources, protect your game’s ecosystem, and regain control.

How Quago works

Real-Time Detection, Immediate Action

Stay agile against cheaters who evolve their tactics using GenAI and other sophisticated tools. Building a detection model is one thing, maintaining precision in production is significantly harder. Quago’s adaptive machine learning continuously evolves to counteract even the latest cheating strategies, ensuring your defenses remain one step ahead.

Unveil Your Game’s True Analytics

Filter out cheaters’ tainted data to ensure your analytics reflect authentic player behavior. Clean data prevents misleading insights, reduces wasted resources, and directs focus to meaningful player experiences. Various factors can distort game analytics, including cheater attacks on new user creation, which can mimic low-quality user acquisition. Accurately distinguishing these ensures reliable analytics.

Scalability & Cost Efficiency
Protecting Tournaments & Leaderboards
Empowering Player Support Teams

Handling cheat detection at scale is complex and costly, but Quago makes it manageable:

  • Tested on 100M+ DAU, ensuring effortless scalability
  • Covers your entire player base while maintaining positive ROI
  • Avoids exploding cloud costs with an optimized, scalable approach
  • Proven track record of working with the biggest games in the world while maintaining industry-leading accuracy and an exceptionally low false positive rate.
  • Prevent cheaters from winning tournaments by blocking their registration or reviewing results to ensure fair play.
  • Secure leaderboards – one of the biggest frustration points for engaged players.
  • Ensure competition integrity by identifying and mitigating suspicious behaviors before they impact fair players.

Enable your player support team to quickly identify cheaters with confidence and take decisive action:

  • Instant access to reliable cheat detection insights
  • Reduce investigation time and improve response efficiency

Scalability & Cost Efficiency

Handling cheat detection at scale is complex and costly, but Quago makes it manageable:

  • Tested on 100M+ DAU, ensuring effortless scalability
  • Covers your entire player base while maintaining positive ROI
  • Avoids exploding cloud costs with an optimized, scalable approach
  • Proven track record of working with the biggest games in the world while maintaining industry-leading accuracy and an exceptionally low false positive rate.

Protecting Tournaments & Leaderboards

  • Prevent cheaters from winning tournaments by blocking their registration or reviewing results to ensure fair play.
  • Secure leaderboards – one of the biggest frustration points for engaged players.
  • Ensure competition integrity by identifying and mitigating suspicious behaviors before they impact fair players.

Empowering Player Support Teams

Enable your player support team to quickly identify cheaters with confidence and take decisive action:

  • Instant access to reliable cheat detection insights
  • Reduce investigation time and improve response efficiency
Privacy compliant
No additional permissions are required. Quago uses only existing data already collected by the app, maintaining full compliance with GDPR and global privacy standards.
Easy to use
Seamless integration with your existing ecosystem, set up in minutes.
Explainable AI
Transparent, tangible evidence you can trust, backed by data. 
Lightweight
SDK does not affect device performance or battery consumption. 
Scalable
Tested on 100M+ daily users, ensuring effortless scalability.
Traffic Interception
Included as part of the detection toolkit.
FAQ
What type of Data does Quago collect?

– Smart collection via lightweight SDK
– Metadata such as emulators & external device detection
– Motion events
– Sensors such as changes in battery, magnetic field, gyroscope, and accelerometer.
– App lifecycle
– All data is non-PII, non-private, and does not allow the identification of users.
– Fully compliant with GDPR and Apple’s latest privacy manifest requirements.

Who owns the collected data: Is it Quago or the customer?

The customer fully owns the collected data. Quago is only a sub-processor of the data that analyzes the data on behalf of the customer.

What’s the SDK impact on the app and device?

Quago’s SDK is battle-tested on tens of millions of devices daily on some of the biggest games out there. We put a lot of attention into ensuring our impact on the game is practically negligent.

The details:
– SDK size of approx 1 MB
– Negligible battery consumption
– Negligible CPU usage
– No libraries included on the SDK. All code is written natively to avoid dependencies
– No user permissions are required from the user to run the SDK
– No changes to the app submission to the App store and Google Play
– Network consumption on average: 5.8KB per minute on Android and 5.3KB per minute on iOS

Which platforms are supported by Quago?

Mobile, Console, and PC.

Does Quago collect PII and personal data?

No PII is collected. The users cannot be identified through Quago’s data.
Quago is fully compliant with GDPR and Apple’s latest privacy manifest requirements.

How is the data collected by Quago delivered and analyzed?

The data is analyzed in Quago’s inference engine in the cloud.
To keep SDK impact as minimal as possible, there is no processing on the client side.
Two options are supported for sharing the collected data from the client to the backend:
1. Data is sent directly from the client to Quago’s backend.
2. The data is routed through the client App to the App’s backend and then forwarded to Quago’s backend.

What methods are supported for sharing real-time results?

– Pull: Our system allows users to retrieve information as needed through Quago’s API in real-time.
– Push: Our platform proactively sends information automatically on every relevant event.

For aggregative non-real-time results, Quago can provide detailed daily/weekly reports and a comprehensive BI Dashboard.

Does Quago use its customer's data to train other AI modules?

No, Quago keeps the data of each application completely separate.

Interested in Seeing Quago in Action?
Contact us today for a demo or to learn more about how our technology can enhance your gaming experience.
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