Find The Needle Steam page analysis
View on Steam ↗Capsule 80Page copy 79Screenshots 86Setup 80checked 2026-10-30
Similar games: screenshots 88/255 · 4 trailers · 15 languages
Find The NeedleNeedless Games · 20 tags · 7 screenshotsSection scores weights from methodology v1
The score measures. The Player Jury puts your capsules in a real-size Steam list in front of 300 genre players. In development, $19 per test.
Fixes, ranked by estimated impact 5 ISSUES
lowFewer trailers than similar games+3 pts
1 trailer; similar games have 4.
Add a short gameplay-only trailer.
highFirst sentence never names the genre+2 pts
It opens: "You have a shovel and a haystack with about six million strands in it."
Name the genre in the first sentence, the part shoppers read on hover.
mediumContrast could be stronger+1 pts
Brightness spread 41.
Increase separation between subject and background.
mediumBroad tags rank above your real genre+1 pts
Top five tags include Simulation, Multiplayer.
Encourage players to tag your real genre, and use your developer tags on the specific ones.
How you look on Steam
Measured at 231 × 87: brightness 153/255, contrast 41, colorfulness 63, 0% near-black pixels.
Store copy short 70 · long 92
Short description · 219 / 300You have a shovel and a haystack with about six million strands in it. Somewhere inside there's a needle. Dig it out by hand, sell the hay, then spend the money on belts and machines until you don't have to dig anymore.
First sentence never names the genre. It opens: "You have a shovel and a haystack with about six million strands in it."
A rewritten draft built from your own words is in the full report.
Screenshot audit measured brightness, store order
Steam shows 4 to 5 thumbnails before the arrow. Red = near-black (under 30/255), amber = dark (under 45).
First five screenshots vs the games Steam shows next to you average brightness, 0–255
Trailer, tags and setup
- warn1 trailer; the games Steam shows next to you have 4.
- warnTop five tags include Simulation, Multiplayer.
- okDemo available on a Coming Soon page.
- okAll 20 tag slots used.
- ok17 languages.
- ok12 GIFs or clips in the long description.
- okDiscord, X, website linked.
Games Steam shows next to you
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1.3% of impressions become visits. Below 2% usually means the capsule doesn't read at small size.
What's working
- ✓ 17 languages
- ✓ All 20 tag slots used
- ✓ 12 GIFs or clips in the description
- ✓ Short description uses 219 of 300 characters
Pricing the score is always free · no account · 5 checks a day
- ✓ Score + 9 sections
- ✓ Measured screenshots
- ✓ Funnel diagnosis
- ✓ Top 4 fixes
- ✓ All fixes, ranked
- ✓ Description draft
- ✓ Screenshot order
- ✓ Tag plan + checklist
- ✓ 300+ genre players
- ✓ Real-size Steam list
- ✓ Written reasons
- ✓ 48 hours
- ✓ Daily re-score
- ✓ Neighbor alerts
- ✓ 1 jury test a month
- ✓ 3 games
Scored with methodology v1. A higher score means a clearer page, not guaranteed sales.