Customer Introduction
Founded in 2015, ChillyRoom is an independent game developer headquartered in Shenzhen, China. The studio is dedicated to creating creative, high-quality games for both mobile and PC platforms, with a strong focus on originality, gameplay depth and long-term player engagement.
Chilly Room is best known for its flagship title Soul Knight Prequel, a globally popular action role-playing (ARPG) roguelike game. The title reimagines its Soul Knight IP into a whole new genre, quickly earning strong player acclaim since its launch.
Challenges & Goals
Frequent Commodity Cheat Attacks
Basic cheat tools such as memory modifiers, speed hacks and parameter injectors are being deployed at a high frequency. These recurring attacks require continuous monitoring and rapid response, which places sustained pressure on the studio’s detection systems and live-ops teams.
Advanced Cheats Targeting Core Security Solution
On top of basic cheat tools, more sophisticated cheats began attacking security mechanisms’ underlying logic, bypassing traditional protection systems. This threatens gameplay fairness, especially in action-driven and competitive scenarios.
Rising Operational Pressure on Development Teams
The development team needed to balance gameplay innovation with ongoing anti-cheat defense measures, stretching engineering resources. However, managing evolving security threats, alongside feature development, increased operational complexity and made it difficult to sustain long-term efficiency. The team required more automated, scalable security approaches.
Why Tencent Cloud
Intelligence-led Cheat Detection
Tencent Cloud Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE) accurately identifies cheating behavior by analyzing distinct cheat behavior signatures and correlating them with a large-scale global sample intelligence library. Through continuous analysis of gameplay patterns, tool characteristics and real-time monitoring, the system can detect both common and evolving cheat variants with high precision.
Dual-side SDK Protection
ACE deploys dual-endpoint design that covers both client-side and server-side SDKs, preventing attackers from bypassing defenses by targeting only the client SDK. This ensures that enforcement remains effective even under sophisticated evasion attempts.
End-to-End Dynamic Defense Pipeline
Tencent Cloud provides full-lifecycle protection across monitoring, analysis, verification, and enforcement. By dynamically linking detection signals with automated validation and response mechanisms, ACE delivers a closed-loop, adaptive defense system that maintains effectiveness over time without relying on static rules.
Highlighted Benefits
Tencent Cloud’s Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE) transforms anti-cheat measures from reactive defense into proactive, intelligence-driven protection. It is able to significantly reduce operational overhead, while safeguarding gameplay fairness, security and long-term ecosystem health.
Within just one week of deployment, ACE dramatically enhanced the studio’s cheat interception efficiency. The system continuously monitored hundreds of modifier-based and virtual-machine–based cheating attempts every day and successfully blocked over 5,000 attempts to strip or bypass the anti-cheat SDK, effectively preventing advanced evasion techniques from impacting live gameplay.