Steam Game Studio Lead Extractor

Turn Steam games into verified game-studio sales leads. Give it keywords, Steam app URLs, or app IDs, and it returns one lead per studio — MX/DNS-verified contact emails, phones, socials, and tech stack scraped from the studio's own declared website (the Steam appdetails website field), plus a game catalog with review traction, an A–D lead score, and a studio-readiness signal with a newlyLaunched flag.

Per-successful-result pricing. You are charged only for studios that actually return a real contact signal (email/phone/social) — not for empty results, soundtracks, DLC, or studios with no website. No flat database fee.

• No API keys, no residential proxy. Uses Steam's public keyless store APIs (storesearch, appdetails, appreviews) and the studio's own public website.
• ToS-clean. Contact always comes from the studio's own declared site — Steam user / developer-profile personal data is never mined.
• Quality-gated. Soundtracks, DLC, demos, tools and bundles are filtered out by Steam type so only real shippable games roll up to a studio.
• MCP-ready. "Turn this Steam game / search into a verified studio lead" agent tool.

What it does

1. Discover games by keyword (storesearch) and/or resolve explicit Steam app URLs / IDs (appdetails).
2. Filter to real games (type = game / application); optionally keep only games matching a Steam genre/category.
3. Roll up all of a studio's games to one lead, keyed by the first Steam developer (falling back to the first publisher).
4. Enrich the studio's own declared website for MX/DNS-verified emails, NANP phones, social profiles, and tech-stack fingerprint.
5. Score every lead A–D by signal richness (leadScore) and grade studio-readiness A–D (launch recency + review traction + reachability).
6. Flag games released within a trailing launchedWithinDays window as newlyLaunched (stateless rolling window — the "freshly launched studio" sales pitch).

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
apps	array<string>	—	Steam store URLs (https://store.steampowered.com/app/<ID>/...) or bare numeric app IDs.
searchQueries	array<string>	—	Keywords to discover games via storesearch (e.g. "cozy farming", "metroidvania").
maxPerQuery	integer	20	Cap on games returned per search query (1–100).
country	string	us	Two-letter ISO Steam storefront country.
lang	string	en	Two-letter Steam store language.
genre	string	""	Keep only games whose Steam genres/categories contain this string (case-insensitive). Empty = no filter.
launchedWithinDays	integer	0	Flag games released within the trailing N days as newlyLaunched (0 = disabled).
verifyEmails	boolean	true	Validate the best contact email's domain against live MX/DNS records.
concurrency	integer	3	Games processed in parallel (1–5). Kept low — appdetails rate-limits (HTTP 429) under high concurrency.
proxyConfiguration	object	{}	Optional; only if you hit rate limits.

Provide apps and/or searchQueries; at least one is required.

Output

Each result is one studio lead:

Field	Description
studioName	Primary studio name (first Steam developer, else first publisher).
developers / publishers	Steam developer / publisher lists (from the primary game).
website	The studio's own declared website (Steam appdetails website). null if none.
gameCount	Number of games rolled up for this studio.
games[]	Catalog: appId, title, steamUrl, type, genres, categories, releaseDate, totalReviews, reviewScore, reviewScoreDesc, newlyLaunched.
newestReleaseDate / newlyLaunched	Newest game's release + whether any game is in the rolling window.
emails	MX/DNS-cleaned, deduped contact emails from the studio's own site (own-domain ranked first, ≤25).
emailVerified	true if the best email's domain has a live MX/A record.
phones	Cleaned, validated NANP phones.
socials	{platform: url} (facebook, instagram, twitter/x, linkedin, youtube, tiktok, pinterest).
techStack	Detected tech (WordPress, Shopify, React, Cloudflare, Stripe, HubSpot, …).
totalReviews	Sum of review counts across the studio's games.
studioReadiness / studioLabel	A–D readiness grade + plain-English pitch-readiness line.
leadScore	A–D grade from signal richness (verified email + phone + social + tech).
hasContact	true if any email/phone/social was found (the charge trigger).

When a studio has no website, or its site exposes no contact, the lead is returned honestly with hasContact: false, emails: [], null fields — never fabricated, and not billed.

Real run sample

Run on 2026-07-15. Input: apps: ["413150","105600","504230","588650","219740","1144200","523280","893050"] → 7 studio leads, 6 with contact data. One lead has an MX/DNS-verified email (verified_email billed):

{
  "studioName": "Maddy Makes Games Inc.",
  "developers": ["Maddy Makes Games Inc.", "Extremely OK Games, Ltd."],
  "publishers": ["Maddy Makes Games Inc."],
  "website": "http://www.celestegame.com",
  "gameCount": 1,
  "games": [{
    "appId": "504230", "title": "Celeste",
    "steamUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/504230",
    "type": "game", "genres": ["Action", "Adventure", "Indie"],
    "releaseDate": "2018-01-25T00:00:00+00:00",
    "totalReviews": 67649, "reviewScore": 9,
    "reviewScoreDesc": "Overwhelmingly Positive", "newlyLaunched": false
  }],
  "emails": ["contact.celestegame@gmail.com"],
  "emailVerified": true,
  "phones": [],
  "socials": {},
  "techStack": ["Apache", "Google Analytics", "Google Tag Manager"],
  "totalReviews": 67649,
  "studioReadiness": "B",
  "studioLabel": "Strong prospect — active studio catalog and contactable.",
  "leadScore": "B",
  "hasContact": true
}

A separate run, searchQueries: ["farming"], demonstrates catalog rollup — one lead per studio, all of a studio's games folded together:

{
  "studioName": "GIANTS Software",
  "developers": ["GIANTS Software"],
  "website": "https://farming-simulator.com/",
  "gameCount": 5,
  "games": [
    {"title": "Farming Simulator 25", "releaseDate": "2024-11-12T00:00:00+00:00", "totalReviews": 19662, "reviewScoreDesc": "Very Positive"},
    {"title": "Farming Simulator 22", "releaseDate": "2021-11-21T00:00:00+00:00", "totalReviews": 32533, "reviewScoreDesc": "Very Positive"},
    {"title": "Farming Simulator 19", "releaseDate": "2018-11-19T00:00:00+00:00", "totalReviews": 27768, "reviewScoreDesc": "Very Positive"},
    {"title": "Farming Simulator 17", "releaseDate": "2016-10-24T00:00:00+00:00", "totalReviews": 7805, "reviewScoreDesc": "Very Positive"},
    {"title": "Farming Simulator 15", "releaseDate": "2014-10-30T00:00:00+00:00", "totalReviews": 4883, "reviewScoreDesc": "Very Positive"}
  ],
  "newestReleaseDate": "2024-11-12T00:00:00+00:00",
  "emails": [],
  "emailVerified": false,
  "socials": {
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/farmingsim",
    "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/giants.farming.simulator",
    "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/giantssoftware",
    "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/farmingsimulator/",
    "tiktok": "https://www.tiktok.com/@farmingsimulator"
  },
  "techStack": ["Apache"],
  "totalReviews": 92651,
  "studioReadiness": "B",
  "leadScore": "C",
  "hasContact": true
}

The same batch returned Re-Logic (terraria.org) with hasContact: false, emails: [] — honestly empty because the site exposes no contact, and not billed. No fabricated emails or phones anywhere in the output.

Pricing (pay-per-event)

Event	Price	Charged when
studio_lead (primary)	$0.008	Once per studio that returns at least one real contact signal (email/phone/social) + its game catalog.
verified_email	$0.003	A studio yields at least one MX/DNS-validated contact email.
studio_signal	$0.001	A studio has at least one game released within the launchedWithinDays window.
apify-actor-start (one-time)	$0.0001	When the run starts.

Primary event is priced well above per-run compute cost — there is zero upstream compose cost (self-contained: keyless Steam store APIs + the studio's own public website).

Performance & cost

• A keyword query discovers ~10–50 app ids; each kept game costs one appdetails + one appreviews call; one studio site fetch for enrichment.
• Concurrency is capped low (default 3) to respect Steam's appdetails rate limit (HTTP 429, retried with backoff).
• Typical query (20 games → ~10 studios, 2–4 with verified contact): a few cents.

Troubleshooting

• No results / fewer studios than games: soundtracks, DLC, demos, tools and bundles are dropped by type. Provide more searchQueries or explicit apps.
• hasContact: false on a big studio: Steam's website field is null for some games (e.g. AAA titles), so there is no studio site to enrich. Honest, not billed.
• HTTP 429 / throttled runs: lower concurrency, add a proxyConfiguration, or reduce maxPerQuery.
• newlyLaunched flags too much: Steam release dates are formatted strings; undated/"coming soon" games get releaseDate: null and are never flagged. Tune launchedWithinDays.