Plague Inc: The Board Game Steam page analysis
View on Steam ↗Capsule 81Page copy 78Screenshots 86Setup 68checked 2026-11-01
Similar games: screenshots 73/255 · 2 trailers · 11 languages
Plague Inc: The Board GameNdemic Creations · 20 tags · 6 screenshotsSection scores weights from methodology v1
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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 7 ISSUES
lowNo Discord link+5 pts
No Discord link found on the store page.
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lowFewer trailers than similar games+3 pts
1 trailer; similar games have 2.
Add a short gameplay-only trailer.
highFirst sentence never names the genre+2 pts
It opens: "Yes, this really is a video game of a board game of a video game!"
Name the genre in the first sentence, the part shoppers read on hover.
mediumCapsule is darker than most+1 pts
Average brightness 58/255.
Brighten the focal subject so it separates from Steam's dark #1b2838 background.
How you look on Steam
Measured at 231 × 87: brightness 58/255, contrast 55, colorfulness 73, 48% near-black pixels.
Store copy short 65 · long 98
Short description · 282 / 300Yes, this really is a video game of a board game of a video game! Spread across the world, mutate deadly symptoms and battle rival pathogens to wipe out humanity. A 1–4 player tabletop game of infection, evolution and extinction based on the smash hit with over 200 million players.
First sentence never names the genre. It opens: "Yes, this really is a video game of a board game of a video game!"
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 2.
- warnTop five tags include Singleplayer, Multiplayer.
- warnNo community links on the page.
- okDemo available on a Coming Soon page.
- okAll 20 tag slots used.
- ok10 languages.
- ok8 GIFs or clips in the long description.
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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
- ✓ All 20 tag slots used
- ✓ 8 GIFs or clips in the description
- ✓ Short description uses 282 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.