yes I agree, reverse engineering is part of the endeavor (to understand the protocol, and the content of the messages). almost all game have bots and bot deve

yes I agree, reverse engineering is part of the endeavor (to understand the protocol, and the content of the messages). almost all game have bots and bot developers go through this step, so you can save some time if you find the right forums/communities for your game where they share this kind of info among each other. this simple inspection can at least help you weed out simpler attempts. but can't guarantee that the game is clean. as sibling comments pointed out, these days with anti-cheat mechanism being so intrusive that they have kernel level access to your computer with some even having the kernel driver running even when the game is not running. I think that was the case for genshin impact and valorant. genshin's anti-cheat apparently was even hacked to be used by ransomware at some point in the past. games with kernel access can do so much more than just being a keylogger, they can own your computer, listen to the traffic on you network. it's best to treat all of them as compromised super-viruses you willingly decided to install on your computer. buy a separate computer that act as a console, isolated from the rest of your network and do nothing but gaming in it. or just don't play them.