One game leads to another.

I get a kick out of knowing Playground is pointing people towards games they might otherwise have missed. So I had a look at what happens after that first click. Are people finding one game and leaving, or finding a few more to try?

The average was 2.33 different games per recorded browser. Seeing around one in ten open five or more is pretty cool. These are early numbers, but they give me something useful to work on: helping more people find their next favourite.

We’ve also passed two milestones: more than 2,000 games in the arcade — already over 2,100 — and more than 4,000 visits in the last 30 days. I started building Playground about a month ago, and shared it publicly on Hacker News a week ago. Thank you to everyone who has had a look, shared a link or submitted a game.

At this evening’s count, Playground had recorded 3,377 game opens across 642 different games, plus 95 ratings and 16 written reviews. The reviews are included in those ratings, and I’ve written about half of them myself. There’s plenty of room for more voices!

I’m doing this for fun, and to shine a light on what creators are doing. This isn’t my full-time thing. I just get weirdly obsessed with building fun things that celebrate great work. I did the same with PRexamples, celebrating great PR and marketing campaigns; I sold it after it became the UK’s best-read PR site. It’s now called Famous Campaigns, and is awesome if you’re into that sort of thing.

With games, I kept seeing something people had built with AI, thinking “bloody hell, I want to try that”, then losing the link. Bringing them together was the start. Making it easier to find something you actually want to play is where I’m putting more and more of the work.

That’s why there are gameplay previews, device filters, play counts, ratings and written reviews. Why you can follow a creator’s name to their other games. And why Your Playground helps you keep the good finds and suggests something new, whether you use it as a guest or make an account.

We’ve now added another way to keep exploring: open a game’s details and look below the reviews for “If you like this, try…” — up to three suggestions, with descriptions, play counts and player ratings. They take cues from the type of game and what you do in it, with options suited to your device. Games don’t need lots of plays or reviews to be suggested.

I’m happy sharing these numbers because I want creators to know what Playground is doing, and where it still needs to get better. I’ll be using the multi-game figures as a benchmark to improve on as we add better ways to discover games and bring more people through the door.

If you’ve found something you love, save it, give it an honest rating, or send the link to someone who might enjoy it. If you’ve made a game with AI assistance, submit it here. Browsing and submitting are free, and the games always link back to their creators.

Find your next game — and tell me in the comments what led you to it. I’m all ears.

Rich Leigh

Figures checked on 29 October 2026, including computers, phones and tablets. The multi-game figures count browsers, so someone visiting on two devices can count twice. Opening a game means following its play link, not measured time playing. Game counts include testing and may include bots; the separate 30-day visits figure excludes known bots.