Editorial standards: how a game gets published here

Anyone can point a script at a game feed and publish ten thousand pages by morning. What comes out is a catalogue nobody can navigate, wrapped in descriptions nobody wrote. This page is the opposite commitment, written down so you can hold us to it.

How a game reaches the site

1. It arrives as a draft. Nothing from the feed is visible to a reader until a person has dealt with it.
2. Somebody plays it. Not the title screen — far enough in to see how the game actually behaves: whether it loads on a slow connection, whether the controls work with a thumb as well as a keyboard, whether the difficulty curve is real or the first level is the whole game.
3. The write-up is produced from that session. It says what the game is, how it plays, and what the first few minutes feel like. Only then does the page go live.

Games that never finish loading, open into an empty frame, or push an app-store link before you can play are left in draft and never published.

Why our descriptions read differently

Every listing in the syndication feed ships with a developer blurb, and that same blurb sits on every other portal carrying the game. We throw it away. Each description here is written for this site, after playing, by someone who formed an opinion — which is why you will find sentences here about what a game does badly as well as what it does well. That is the point of a write-up: if every game sounds excellent, the page is advertising, not description.

Four things we do not do

• No invented scores. There is no review panel behind this site, so there are no star ratings or “8.7/10” badges. A number we made up would look authoritative and mean nothing.
• No inflated play counts. The figures on this site are counted on this site. They are not seeded, rounded up, or borrowed.
• No guessed developer credits. Where the distributor gives us no studio name, the field stays blank rather than filled with a plausible guess. Crediting the wrong people is not a rounding error.
• No paid positions. No studio has ever paid to sit higher in a list here, and if that ever changes the page will say so where you can see it.

Keeping the library honest over time

Games break. Studios pull titles, hosting moves, an update changes how something plays. A game reported as broken gets re-checked and, if it is genuinely gone, unpublished rather than left as a dead page. Where an update changes the play itself, the write-up is revised — the date on a game page is when that page was last reviewed, not when it was imported.

Where the games come from, plainly

Titles are licensed HTML5 games distributed through GameMonetize and built by independent studios. We do not host game code and we have not made any of these games. The site earns from display advertising and the revenue share inside the games; that is a relationship with the network, not with any individual developer.

Independent of Poki

This site is not operated by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Poki B.V. The phrase “poki games” is used here because it is what people type when they are looking for free browser games. poki.com is a different site run by a different company.

Corrections and who is accountable

Wrong controls, a miscategorised game, a credit in the wrong place: tell us and it is fixed, no argument. Editorial calls on this site are made by Mr.Dev, who is also the person to complain to when one of them is wrong. Rights holders should use the DMCA page, which is the faster route.