Creative Cult MCP Server

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answering

Creative Cult is answering right now. Last checked 15 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

What players think of new video games, from their own reviews. No critic scores.

Uptime history 5 days of history

5 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

674 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Creative Cult every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 15 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add research --transport http https://creativecult.digital/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://creativecult.digital/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.research]
url = "https://creativecult.digital/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research": {
      "url": "https://creativecult.digital/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "research": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://creativecult.digital/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

best

get_best_of_month

A month's new video games ranked by the share of player reviews that recommend them. A game needs at least 500 reviews to be ranked. Critic scores are never used. Defaults to the latest ranked month.

game

get_game

Creative Cult's report on how players received one game: the share of player reviews that recommend it and its date, what players praise and criticise, who the game suits, answers to common questions, and numbered sources. Takes the game's name or its slug from search_games.

games

search_games

Find new video games Creative Cult follows, by name. Returns each game's release date, the latest share of player reviews that recommend it with its date, and a link to its page. Games with a slug have a full report you can read with get_game. Leave the query empty to list every game with a report, newest first.

release

get_release_calendar

Notable video games releasing in a month, with dates from publishers and platform holders, platforms and US price where announced, and for games already out, the share of player reviews that recommend them. Defaults to the current month.

research

list_research

Creative Cult's research pieces: teardowns of how launches landed with players, the monthly Reception Index, and how the firm runs player research. Returns titles, summaries, dates and links.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://creativecult.digital/mcp	streamable-http	answering	705 ms	15 min ago

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Creative Cult — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Creative Cult do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_best_of_month, get_game, get_release_calendar, list_research, search_games. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Creative Cult working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 674 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Creative Cult?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Creative Cult need an API key?

No. Creative Cult completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Creative Cult?

It answers our handshake in 674 ms on average, which is faster than 13% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.