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An independent hype tracker for upcoming games. Scores are relative — built to answer the question every gamer asks before a launch: how hyped is everyone, really?
HYPEMETER collects public signals from video platforms, community forums, encyclopedias, game databases, and curated editorial sources to produce two scores for each upcoming game: a HYPE INDEX measuring total online interest, and a SENTIMENT SCORE measuring the emotional tone of that conversation.
Scores are normalized relative to the current tracked game list — not rated against some universal scale. A hype of 90 means more online buzz than the other games we track right now. Adding or removing a game from the list shifts every score; this is by design.
A game is added when it has a confirmed or strongly indicated release window and enough measurable public signal for our data sources to return meaningful results. In practice that means: active video content on YouTube, some community presence (Discord, forums, or social), and entries in at least one game database. A game with no trailer, no community footprint, and a release date years away won't produce reliable scores — so we wait until the signals are there.
We don't track every announced game. We track the ones our monitors can actually measure.
Three signal groups, each a composite of underlying data sources, normalized 0–1 across all tracked games, then summed and clamped to [5, 99].
Want Count (50%) blends all intent signals: editorial wishlists, player backlog counts, community membership, subscribers, upvotes, posts, and database adds. Hype Per Day (35%) captures video upload velocity and daily page traffic — the strongest real-time signal for active buzz. Video Views (15%) is the raw video view total. Community size signals use log-scale normalization to prevent games with massive existing fanbases from compressing every other score toward zero.
Measures how people feel about a game, not just how much they're talking. High hype with low sentiment often signals a worried community or skepticism about a release date. High sentiment with low hype can surface hidden gems.
HYPEMETER is an independent side project built and run by one person. It started as a personal script — a way to answer a frustrating question: every publication publishes "most anticipated" lists, but none of them explain why a game is on there, and none of them update. The data doesn't lie the way editorial picks do.
The scores are generated by a scraper that runs daily and a formula that's documented here. If something looks wrong, it probably means a data source returned bad data (it shouldn't) — the methodology page explains what each signal is and how it's weighted.
HYPEMETER uses Umami for anonymous analytics. No cookies are set. No personal data is collected or stored. Analytics data is self-hosted on our own server and never shared with third parties.
The only data collected is: pages visited, referrer, browser type, device type, and country (derived from IP — the IP itself is not stored). This is used solely to understand how the site is used and improve it.
All data used by HYPEMETER comes from publicly available sources. No private user data is accessed or processed.
Formula changes, data updates, and UI improvements — newest first.
Games that were tracked by HYPEMETER and have now launched. Compare the hype we measured at launch against critical reception.