What are top game directories?

Top game directories are sites with the primary purpose of game discovery and voting to rank games by popularity.

On such sites, users may generally vote once per day per game and the games are then ranked by the most votes in the given voting period.

Voting periods on sites will most commonly be one week or one month with a fixed window, meaning that votes for games are reset on a given day.

Some sites will have voting periods with rolling windows, which means that the votes for the last X days are what make up the vote number so there is never a hard reset.

How do I get votes?

The majority of top game directories provide a mechanism that allow game owners to generate a voting link containing the player's ID.

Once the player has voted and the site has validated the vote, the site may then make a POST (or sometimes a GET) request to a URL of your choice with the player's ID that was passed in and you may reward the player in your game.

How does my game get traffic?

Players seeking new games to play will often browse top game directories and, as expected, will be drawn to games with higher ranks/more popularity.

Most of these sites will also offer some form of premium or promoted listings which can further increase your game's visibility.