KaoGames is live: play for free, publish to earn
A home for browser games and the people who make them. Here's what KaoGames is, how Discover works, and how creators get paid.
KaoGames is a home for browser games and the people who make them. Every game starts the moment you tap it: no download, no launcher, and no account needed.
Play for free
There are 32 games here today, from a knight holding a ruined keep in Oathsworn to a car-soccer match in Bumper Ball and a zoo frozen into blocks of ice in Break the Ice.
The best way in is Discover, a feed you scroll through one game at a time. Tap Play and the game starts right there in the feed. It learns from what you play, like and skip, so it gets better the more you use it. On a phone it only shows games built to be played upright, full screen.
You never need an account. Signing in with Google keeps your favorites and recently played games on every device, and games that support cloud saves keep your progress too.
Publish to earn
Anyone 18 or over can publish a game here. Upload it as a zip, KaoGames reviews it before it goes live, and then it’s in Discover and on the homepage, credited to you, with your own profile page that players can follow.
Every month a creator fund is shared between everyone who publishes, by how much their games are played and how many players come back. Every payout is public. October’s pool is $10: small, but real, and it grows with the site.
Creators also get analytics for their games, a share kit with a launch card made from their own art, and boosts that put their game in front of more players.
Made with AI? Welcome
Plenty of great games are now built with an AI assistant, and we think that’s worth celebrating. The developers page has ready-made prompts for Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor: one that turns an idea into a finished HTML5 game, and others that get an existing game ready for KaoGames.
Got a game, or an idea for one? Start publishing, and follow @kaogames1 on X to see what’s new.