Skip to content

Welcome! 👋

Getting started

Poki is the world’s largest web gaming platform, connecting over 90 million monthly active users across more than 100 countries. We partner with game developers worldwide to grow their audiences, provide fair monetization opportunities, and ensure every game gets its moment to shine.

As a developer on Poki, you’ll have access to powerful tools, resources, and insights to help you build, test, and refine your games. From streamlined onboarding to in-depth playtesting, from expert QA to dedicated marketing and user acquisition support — our platform is designed to remove friction so you can focus on making great games.

In the following sections, we’ll guide you through everything from integrating the Poki SDK to optimizing your game for web performance, understanding our revenue model, and taking advantage of the exclusive benefits that come with publishing on Poki.

Why choose Poki?

At Poki, we empower you as game developers to explore, create, and connect with players. Our tools and policies — from QA and marketing support to automated playtesting and fair revenue shares — are built to help you grow.

  • 🧪 Playtesting — Playtesting and player fit tests let you see how real players interact with your game in just a few hours, giving you crucial insights to test, pivot, and adapt faster than ever.
  • 🔧 Development tools — Poki provides a variety of game dev tools that can help you optimize and improve your game. These free tools include the Poki Inspector for reviewing your game against Poki’s requirements and guidelines, the Poki Networking Library (Netlib) to power online multiplayer games, and the Arbitrary User Data Store (AUDS) for easier backend data storage.
  • 💰 Revenue sharing — If a user comes to your game directly, through bookmarks, search, social media or through your own community, you get 100% of the revenue for that user. If a user comes to your game through Poki.com, or through a marketing effort from Poki, then Poki splits the revenue 50/50 with you.
  • ✨ Curation — All games on Poki are hand-picked. If your game is published, it’s guaranteed a spot in the spotlight on our homepage.
  • 📈 Marketing & user acquisition — We take on marketing, QA, and other traditional publisher roles to help your game succeed.

In return for investing time and resources into your game, we ask for web exclusivity — meaning your game will only be published on Poki for the open web. You are still free to publish on Steam or mobile app stores; the exclusivity applies only to the web.

Limited Access

Poki for Developers and our playtesting tools are currently in closed beta with limited access. If you are a developer looking to work with us, you can share your game through our game submission form to apply for access! As we are a hand-curated playground, our team checks every game and decides whether it is a fit for Poki or not. We unfortunately cannot respond to every submission but if your game is a good fit, we’ll reach out to you! When we review games, here’s some pointers for what we’re looking for:

  • 🏅 Quality — We take a few things into account here but we are mainly looking at the UX/feel and the core game loop to assess the potential of the game on Poki. If the base game is fun and interesting, that always bodes well! If you want to get a feeling for the quality we look for, check out our homepages which show off our most popular games!
  • 🎮 Player fit — Simply put, we approach the game from the perspective of our players. Would they like to play this game and have fun? We’re always learning more about our large, global audience so we can say early on what they’re attracted to.
  • 🛠️ Tech — Finally, and very importantly, we check how technically sound the game is and how well it is optimized for mobile and desktop web. With so many differing internet speeds and devices, it’s really important to make your game as optimized as possible, no matter the engine!

Using these guidelines, we can decide if the game will fit Poki and our players! Cross-device (mobile and desktop web) games are more favorable due to our worldwide audience who have varying internet speeds and devices. We work with all game engines and tech, from Defold and PlayCanvas, to Pixi and Three.js. Optimized Unity games also work!

After your game has been accepted via Poki for Developers, there are two mandatory steps to get your game ready for an impactful launch: implementing our mandatory requirements and our SDK.