About Shadefall
A community-run suite of tools for Steam profile intelligence and cheater detection. Built in the open, driven by evidence, reversible by design.
Why it exists
Valve's own anti-cheat lags years behind the cheats it tries to catch. Community VAC lists are static, opaque, and often wrong. Shadefall is the attempt to do it in the open: demo-backed evidence, weighted consensus, and a permanent history of every profile change that ever mattered.
How it's organized
Shadefall is a suite. Each offering is a standalone tool that shares the same identity and data layer.
- Hunters is the submission and verdict pipeline. Hunters submit demos, tag players, and vote on verdicts with rep-weighted influence.
- Archive is the long-term memory. A continuously-running crawler logs every profile change — aliases, avatars, comments, friends — timestamped forever.
Principles
- Evidence first. Claims without raw data don't count.
- Transparent by default. You can see every vote, every verdict, every revision.
- Reversible. Every action is logged. Every mistake can be corrected without rewriting history.
- Private reputation. Hunter rep is never public — only tier is. Contribution matters, leaderboard gaming doesn't.