Anti-cheat

Backseat works by running inside your game. That’s what makes it feel like part of the game instead of a window on top of it — and it’s also the reason there are games it will never touch.

Anti-cheat

Easy Anti-Cheat, BattlEye, Vanguard and their relatives exist to catch programs running inside a game. They don’t ask what the program is for. An overlay that reads the screen looks exactly like a cheat to them, and the answer is a ban — on your account, usually permanent, and not the kind that gets appealed.

So Backseat checks every game before it goes in, and if it finds anti-cheat, it stays out. There’s no setting for this. If you ever find a way around it, that’s a bug — tell us, and don’t play that game with Backseat running.

Multiplayer

Even without anti-cheat, don’t use Backseat in anything multiplayer. Something that reads your screen and answers questions is exactly what the other players would call cheating, whatever we built it for. Single-player only.

What Backseat actually does

Since people ask:

• It reads the pixels on your screen. Nothing else — not the game’s memory, not your save, not its files.
• It never presses a key or moves the mouse for you.
• It never changes anything about the game.

None of that makes it safe under anti-cheat. Being inside the game is enough.

The list

Backseat only appears in games we’ve cleared for it, and your install keeps that list current on its own. It’s a second lock, independent of the anti-cheat check: we can pull a game from the list any time, and the check still runs on everything the list allows.

You can’t add games yourself — a copy of the list sits in the install folder, but the next refresh overwrites it. Ask us instead.