GuardingPear Anti-Cheat

GuardingPear Anti-Cheat is a Unity security asset for developers protecting games from memory edits, altered saves, clock manipulation, input abuse, and mobile tampering. It is a strong fit for indie teams and larger studios on Unity 2021.3 or newer that want safeguards embedded in the client. The main trade-off is scope: it adds substantial client-side coverage, but it is not server-side detection and cannot block every desktop tool.

Overview

The asset coordinates protection, monitoring, detection, and punishment through an AntiCheat-Monitor prefab. Protected APIs are intended as drop-in Unity replacements, and the monitor can be added from the Inspector without code. That makes adoption less disruptive than introducing a separate service, especially when a project already relies on Unity's standard APIs.

GuardingPear's role is defensive rather than authoritative. It can make common manipulation harder and identify several attack signals, but competitive games still need server-controlled validation for outcomes that must not be trusted to the client.

Key features

Memory and save data

Protected replacements for integers, floats, strings, vectors, and lists are designed to frustrate Cheat Engine and GameGuardian scans. They are most relevant to games where straightforward value editing would otherwise be effective. ProtectedPlayerPrefs preserves the Unity PlayerPrefs pattern while encrypting values on disk and checking for tampering, giving local progression and settings more resistance to modification.

Time and input

Protected Time detects speed hacks and clock skew, then falls back to a trusted system-tick clock when an attack is detected. That directly addresses altered cooldowns, timers, and rate-based mechanics. Protected Input rate-limits mouse, keyboard, gamepad, and touch presses; the default ceiling is 10 clicks per second, a useful baseline against automated or unnaturally fast input that may need tuning for a particular game.

Mobile and desktop checks

Android checks can validate installation source, app hash, signing-certificate fingerprint, native libraries, and known cheat apps. iOS adds jailbreak detection. These checks give mobile developers concrete integrity signals rather than relying only on gameplay behavior.

On desktop, the asset can detect debuggers and mod loaders, but it cannot block tools that attach before game scripts run. That limitation matters for determined attackers and prevents treating the package as a complete desktop anti-cheat solution.

Compatibility

The feature set is listed for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, WebGL, and consoles, with both IL2CPP and Mono scripting backends supported. Game-engine support is Unity only.

Pricing

Anti-Cheat (Pro) costs $34.99, paid once as a one-time purchase for 1 seat; the sale is available on the maker's store only. It includes the Pro edition, while documentation's comparison shows the memory demo in Free and several other demos as Pro-only. The free edition is therefore useful for evaluating the core memory example, but teams needing the broader demonstration set should budget for Pro.

The Security Bundle costs $64.99, paid once as a one-time purchase and includes 1 seat for Obfuscator (Pro) plus 1 seat for Anti-Cheat (Pro), also sold only through the maker's store. It makes sense when both products are required; buying it solely for anti-cheat costs more than Pro alone. The product page also advertises instant delivery, lifetime updates, and a money-back guarantee.

Platforms

GuardingPear targets Unity projects on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, WebGL, and consoles. Unity 2021.3 or later is required, with IL2CPP and Mono support. There is no server-side detection, so platform coverage should not be mistaken for cloud-based enforcement.

Who it's for

Choose it if you are a Unity developer—from a small indie team to a larger studio—who wants one-time, client-integrated defenses against memory editing, save tampering, time manipulation, input flooding, and common mobile integrity issues. It is less suitable as the sole protection for highly competitive online games or projects needing server-authoritative anti-cheat, and desktop teams must accept the pre-script attachment limitation.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Broad coverage spanning memory, saves, time, input, Android integrity, and iOS jailbreak checks.
• Unity-native drop-in APIs and Inspector-based monitor setup can reduce integration work.
• One-time Pro pricing includes a single seat, lifetime updates, and a stated money-back guarantee.
• Wide target-platform and Unity backend support.

Cons

• No server-side detection, leaving authoritative game-state checks to your own architecture.
• Desktop protection cannot stop tools attached before game scripts execute.
• The free edition exposes the memory demo, while several other demos require Pro.
• Pro and Bundle offers are one-seat purchases sold only through the maker's store.

Alternatives

Easy Anti-Cheat is the better starting point for studios wanting a freemium option with a free Basic plan and broad desktop, mobile, and web platform coverage; its Core plan uses contact pricing.

AGINUZ Anti-Cheat Infrastructure suits single-player or offline games seeking a free Protected tier with per-player binaries and struct-field shuffling, with a paid Indie tier at 50.00 USD.

Epic Online Services is preferable when free services, no royalties, and no hosting fees matter, subject to service-usage restrictions.

Anybrain and Byteria Game Anti-Cheat are paid alternatives for teams evaluating other anti-cheat products.

RoSentry fits web games that can stay within its free Basic limits of 100 concurrent players and one active game.

OZeroSecurity Anti-Cheat SDK is the alternative to consider when a 159.00 USD perpetual Standard license, offline operation, and unlimited projects match your requirements.

UltimateAntiCheat is a free, Windows and self-hosted AGPL-3.0 educational project, with commercial reuse requiring the project to remain open source.

Browse the Game Anti-Cheat Software category for more options.

Verdict

GuardingPear Anti-Cheat is a sensible choice for Unity teams that want broad client-side protection in a single, one-time purchase, especially across mobile and desktop targets. Choose it for its practical coverage and Unity-friendly integration; look elsewhere if server-side detection, stronger pre-launch desktop blocking, or a multi-seat commercial arrangement is essential.