Running since 2013

Who we are

Imbaboost started in 2013 and has traded under the same name ever since. No rebrands, no relaunches under a new domain when reviews went stale. The Trustpilot and Reviews.io profiles you can open from our footer cover that whole stretch, which is the part of a service company's history that is hardest to fake and easiest to check.

We work on Steam. Commendations and Trust Factor, profile comments, review votes, likes and favourites, group members, Workshop growth, wishlists for game developers, and hours played. That list is on the services page and it is the whole of what we sell.

What we stopped selling

This is the part most companies leave out, and it is the part that actually says something.

CS2 rank boosting. We did it for years and we did it without cheating: either playing alongside the customer on the same server, or on their account the way a brother would. Then the number of cheaters in CS2 climbed past the point where honest play reliably wins. We could have carried on the way most of the market does. We would rather not take the money than take it for a result we cannot stand behind.

Faceit services. Cut in July 2026 for the same reason, and that decision was final. The articles about Faceit are still on our blog, because they were useful before we stopped and they are useful now. We just do not sell the service.

Both of those had traffic and both of them made money. That is what makes them worth mentioning: the rule is that we do not sell what we cannot deliver at our own standard, and a rule that never costs anything is not a rule.

How the work actually happens

Most of what we sell never touches your account. Commendations, comments, likes and group members are delivered from accounts we own and have built up over years, so there is no login of yours for us to hold, lose or leak. A credential we never receive is one that cannot be taken from us.

Hour Boost is the exception, and it is the one worth understanding. It signs into your account, and it signs in from a server we rent in the country you choose — not from wherever a machine happened to be free. You can check that yourself without taking our word for it: the login mail Steam sends you names a region, and it will name yours.

Parts of the delivery are automated, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. A person oversees every service we automate, and no cheats or third-party software have ever been part of how we work. What we will not tell you is that any of this is invisible to Valve. Nobody outside Valve knows that, and we would rather be the company that admits it.

Who writes this

The guides and the research on this site are written by AresQQ — the gaming name of the person who started Imbaboost in 2013 and has run it since. Not a content team and not an agency: the same person who answers support, prices the services and decides which ones we drop.

That is worth saying because it is where the numbers in the articles come from. The commendation posts are written by somebody who has delivered over 250,000 of them from a fleet we own and maintain, and who therefore knows what the pacing limits actually are rather than guessing at them. The Trust Factor posts lean on our own scan of 19.9 million public Steam profiles, with the sample's limits written down next to its conclusions.

The same person decided to stop selling CS2 rank boosting and FACEIT, described two sections above. Those are the calls that tell you more about a source than any bio does — and they are why you will find posts here that talk you out of something we sell.

If you are still deciding

Read the reviews on Trustpilot and Reviews.io, both linked from every page of this site. Then ask us anything you like — the FAQ covers the usual questions, and Contact Us reaches a person by email or through the form.