Fighting for fair in games

Our mission is to restore integrity to gaming by breaking the cycle of cheating.

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Our story

I grew up alongside the rise of technology and gaming. It has been an awesome journey, and I truly believe that being born in the early 90's was one of the best times ever. Being able to experience games as they've evolved over the last 30 years has been a great pleasure of mine.

However, over the last few years, myself and a lot of my friends have noticed such an influx of cheating, hacking, botting, and people trying to gain an unfair advantage in games. In multiplayer games, this ruins the experience for everyone.

There's been a perfect storm that's made gaming so much worse:
• Games have moved to free-to-play, removing all barrier to entry
• Cheats have never been more accessible. Across social media, one search away, and they're cheaper and easier than ever.
• Competitive gaming breeds frustration, making cheats a tempting solution
• The streaming economy incentivizes "amazing content" by any means necessary
• Anti-cheat can’t win the fight by itself, especially if it doesn’t matter if cheaters are caught

This is why I set out on this journey to create a solution that would make gaming more fun for everyone today, but also, hopefully solve many of the issues with the online world.

There's a missing accountability in gaming. If somebody intentionally seeks to break the rules to have an unfair advantage over everyone else they should face a meaningful penalty. And anyone sexual towards children online should be removed forever.

PlaySafe ID fixes the issue of cheating, hacking, botting, and bad-actors. It makes gaming significantly more fair, fun, and safe for everyone - whilst retaining user's anonymity and protecting their data.

It's my hope that PlaySafe ID will always be the bastion for players that they deserve.

28/11/2025

Interview: GameBiz Heroes: Making games safer with Andrew Wailes

Andrew Wailes was a guest on Melanya Laz's podcast to discuss his career patch, PlaySafe ID’s origin, mission to make gaming fun again, and why you need to be fired at least once.

28/11/2025

Interview: GameBiz Heroes: Making games safer with Andrew Wailes

Andrew Wailes was a guest on Melanya Laz's podcast to discuss his career patch, PlaySafe ID’s origin, mission to make gaming fun again, and why you need to be fired at least once.

07/09/2025

Interview: Gigabeef & Andrew Wailes, CEO

Gigabeef, a well known Escape from Tarkov creator, had some questions about PlaySafe ID and interviewed our CEO, Andrew Wailes. In this full length interview, Gigabeef dives into some tough questions about PlaySafe ID, how it works, and how we’re protecting users.

07/09/2025

Interview: Gigabeef & Andrew Wailes, CEO

Gigabeef, a well known Escape from Tarkov creator, had some questions about PlaySafe ID and interviewed our CEO, Andrew Wailes. In this full length interview, Gigabeef dives into some tough questions about PlaySafe ID, how it works, and how we’re protecting users.

05/09/2025

Serious self-promotion

PlaySafe ID realised that we needed to spread the word and started developing some actual advertising. Here are a few advertisements we developed.

05/09/2025

Serious self-promotion

PlaySafe ID realised that we needed to spread the word and started developing some actual advertising. Here are a few advertisements we developed.

01/09/2025

Social: Major Publications cover our Gaming Cheating Study

The cheating study drew viral interest in the gaming industry. Here are just a few of the wide range of outlets that covered our research and the news. We can’t list everyone, but thank you to the industry news for covering our research and insights.

01/09/2025

Social: Major Publications cover our Gaming Cheating Study

The cheating study drew viral interest in the gaming industry. Here are just a few of the wide range of outlets that covered our research and the news. We can’t list everyone, but thank you to the industry news for covering our research and insights.

11/08/2025

Gaming’s Cheating Crisis Report

An independent study by Atomik Research commissioned by PlaySafe ID: Gaming’s Cheating Crisis Report - The Impact on Players and Profit. The study delivered some shocking and incredible insights into gamers attitudes and behaviours towards cheating in online games.

11/08/2025

Gaming’s Cheating Crisis Report

An independent study by Atomik Research commissioned by PlaySafe ID: Gaming’s Cheating Crisis Report - The Impact on Players and Profit. The study delivered some shocking and incredible insights into gamers attitudes and behaviours towards cheating in online games.

21/07/2025

Social: Creators catch on

In the first few amazing weeks after announcing PlaySafe ID, we began to see massive hype, support and encouragement from creators and their audiences. We didn’t sponsor or promote any creators - they just heard about our mission from other creators or their audiences and wanted to support it.

21/07/2025

Social: Creators catch on

In the first few amazing weeks after announcing PlaySafe ID, we began to see massive hype, support and encouragement from creators and their audiences. We didn’t sponsor or promote any creators - they just heard about our mission from other creators or their audiences and wanted to support it.

July 2025

Creator ExpBee interviews our CEO

Online creators start hearing about PlaySafe ID and want to learn more. ExpBee, an incredible and passionate creator who had heard about PlaySafe ID was interested in discussing who PlaySafe ID was and how we were going to stop cheaters. A battle that no one had won before.

July 2025

Creator ExpBee interviews our CEO

Online creators start hearing about PlaySafe ID and want to learn more. ExpBee, an incredible and passionate creator who had heard about PlaySafe ID was interested in discussing who PlaySafe ID was and how we were going to stop cheaters. A battle that no one had won before.

Mid 2025

The Online Safety Act for gaming

A deep dive into the new Online Safety Act introduced by Ofcom in the United Kingdom and the implications it holds for the game industry.

Mid 2025

The Online Safety Act for gaming

A deep dive into the new Online Safety Act introduced by Ofcom in the United Kingdom and the implications it holds for the game industry.

May 2025

Funded

We successfully raised $1.1m lead by Early Game Ventures, followed by Overwolf and Hartmann Capital. A great day.

May 2025

Funded

We successfully raised $1.1m lead by Early Game Ventures, followed by Overwolf and Hartmann Capital. A great day.

November 2024

Let’s get funded

After successful tests and an excited community behind it, Andrew decided to try fundraising to turn the idea, tests, and dream, into a real business.

November 2024

Let’s get funded

After successful tests and an excited community behind it, Andrew decided to try fundraising to turn the idea, tests, and dream, into a real business.

July 2024

Taking the leap

Andrew left his job to focus on PlaySafe ID full time. He built the MVP of the product, tested it, and got feedback. It all started with a few Rust and CS2 servers and a dream.

July 2024

Taking the leap

Andrew left his job to focus on PlaySafe ID full time. He built the MVP of the product, tested it, and got feedback. It all started with a few Rust and CS2 servers and a dream.

December 2023

An idea is born

Andrew has conversations with online gaming friends about cheating and how it is completely ruining the games they love. The joke started with ‘…fix the cheating problem?! Hold my beer!’ But it was at this point that the idea behind PlaySafe ID was born.

December 2023

An idea is born

Andrew has conversations with online gaming friends about cheating and how it is completely ruining the games they love. The joke started with ‘…fix the cheating problem?! Hold my beer!’ But it was at this point that the idea behind PlaySafe ID was born.

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