Editorial & content policy

We do not develop games. Every title on this site is licensed from its publisher through game-distribution programmes that grant portals the right to embed the game and share revenue with the developer. We do not copy game files from other sites, we do not re-host content we have no right to serve, and we do not strip a developer's branding out of their game.

Each game is served inside its publisher's own frame. That means the developer keeps control of their build, their updates and their analytics, and it means we can remove a title cleanly if a licence ends.

Beyond licensing, a game has to pass four practical checks before it stays on the site:

• It reaches a playable frame quickly on an ordinary laptop, not just a fast one.
• It degrades sensibly on a phone — or we mark it as desktop-only rather than pretending otherwise.
• Its own advertising is proportionate: no interstitial wall in front of the play button.
• It still works months later. Broken embeds are fixed or removed.

We remove games that break, that request permissions they have no use for, that mislabel their content, or whose licence lapses. Removals happen without notice when a game is unsafe or broken.

Game pages combine the publisher's own description with information we verify ourselves: which categories it belongs to, whether it works on touch, what the controls are, and what the game asks of a new player. Where we have nothing substantial to say about a title beyond its name, we keep the page playable but out of search results rather than publishing filler.

Articles on our blog are written and edited by the Monke Games editorial team. Every list is built from games we host and have played; every recommendation links to the game so you can check the claim yourself. We publish new articles on a weekly schedule.

We do not accept payment for a place in a list, and no publisher can buy a recommendation, a ranking or a homepage slot. Where an article discusses a factual topic — the history of a genre, how a technology works — we state what is established and flag what is disputed rather than rounding it into a confident claim.

The site is free to use and funded by advertising. Advertising is clearly separated from content: ad slots sit outside the game frame and outside article text, we never place advertising inside a game, and advertisers have no input into what we publish or which games we feature.

When advertising is active, ad units are labelled and kept away from controls so nothing is clicked by accident. Our privacy policy explains the cookies involved and how to refuse them.

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Corrections to articles are made in place, and a material correction is noted in the article. Rights holders who believe a game infringes their work should use our DMCA page; everyone else can reach us through the contact form. We aim to reply within a few working days.

We host casual browser games. We do not knowingly publish gambling with real money, sexual content, content promoting hatred or violence against people, or games that harvest personal data. Some titles are unsuitable for young children — horror and shooting games in particular — and those are labelled by category so parents can steer around them.