Unity Platform Support

Guardsquare supports mobile games built on Unity with leading-edge security features, ensuring game developers and studios are compensated for their creations while protecting their brand reputation, as well as ensuring end-users experience fair and safe gameplay.

Secure game development made easy

DexGuard for Android and iXGuard for iOS offer built-in features for mobile games developed on the Unity platform, which powers more than half of all new mobile gaming apps.

Guardsquare’s Unity support in DexGuard and iXGuard extends state-of-the-art security features to mobile games, without negative impacts on development processes or end-user experience.

Integrates transparently in the Android & iOS build processes without requiring changes to source code
Offers extensive customization options to enable teams to adapt the applied protection to unique security and performance requirements
Fully compatible with all common build tools and development environments (Gradle, Android Studio, Ant, Eclipse, Maven and custom builds)

Guardsquare is a Unity Verified Solutions Partner

Learn more about Unity's only mobile gaming application security partner: Protecting Mobile Games >

Build the best gaming experience

With the cheating epidemic on the rise, industry-leading studios on other platforms have invested millions in protecting their games on both the server and client side to ensure players are not being discouraged by cheaters

Guardsquare takes that burden off of your team with solutions that can be adapted to match your unique game situation, achieving maximum protection while maintaining game performance and functionality.

App protection for Unity

More than 50 percent of all mobile games relying on the Unity game engine — that’s why we provide application shielding for Unity-based mobile games.

of mobile gamers say they are likely to abondon a game if fair play is not maintained.

> 0%

of all mobile games are powered by Unity.

of online games are negatively impacted by cheaters.

the amount of time spent on mobile game over home gaming consoles

Guardsquare helps game developers win

Mobile games are a big target for malicious actors.

Risks include:

Cheating via exploitation of unprotected code, such as using fake GPS locations to score in-game treasure or modifying game parameters to allow players to jump higher or run faster without earning those skills
Cloning games to play without paying the makers and distributing or selling to others
Overriding in-app license checks to get upgrades and features for free

Mobile app developers face major loss of revenue if hackers are able to successfully disrupt or hijack monetary exchanges.

In addition to the risk of lost revenue, fairness is paramount in games, where players expect to compete on a level playing field. If hackers compromise a game’s fairness, users may lose trust in the game and/or the game’s maker.

Unity support

Key features of Guardsquare’s Unity support include:

✓ Code hardening:
Obfuscates code to prevent hackers from reverse-engineering games and gaining insight into their internal logic. This feature includes protection for Unity metadata, which helps to prevent the leakage of critical app data, which could be used to reverse-engineer and modify a game.

✓ Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP):
monitors the integrity of the application and the environment in which it runs in real-time, and automatically responds to different threats without impacting game performance.