Changelog

UPDATES - 1st September 2026:

Your voting incentive URL now saves instantly. It used to sit in a moderation queue and wait for one of us to look at it, which made no sense: only verified listings can set one, and verification is already you proving that the domain is yours. So a callback on your own game's domain no longer waits for anybody. Type it, save it, and the next vote posts to it. Subdomains count, so api.yourgame.com is as instant as yourgame.com. A URL on a domain that is not your game's still goes to a person first, because that is the case where somebody could point our vote traffic somewhere it should not go, and the page now tells you that is what happened instead of leaving you guessing.
You can turn the callback off again. Clearing the box and saving used to do nothing at all. The removal was queued, scored as an empty change, and then quietly discarded, so the old URL stayed live and kept receiving your vote data. Clearing the box now removes it immediately.
The page tells you what is actually live. It used to show a pre-filled box and a "Submit for review" button, with nothing to say whether the URL in that box was the approved one or something still waiting. Several owners reasonably read that as "press the button again to be sure" and resubmitted the same URL more than once. The live callback is now printed above the form, and the button says what it does.

UPDATES - 24th August 2026:

Fixed: incentive callbacks broke if your callback URL already had its own parameters. Plenty of owners point us at something like yoursite.com/vote_callback.php?site=browsermmorpg&key=yourkey. When we added the vote parameters we were joining them on with a second question mark instead of an ampersand, and a question mark does not separate anything once you are already inside a query string. Your last parameter swallowed the text that followed it, so your server read a corrupted key or a corrupted player id and turned the call away. Every reward it should have paid was dropped. Callback URLs without their own parameters were never affected, which is why this went unnoticed for so long. It is fixed for voting and for player exchange alike, and if your listing was one of the affected ones your rewards started landing again without you changing a thing. Thanks to Feudera for reporting it, and for the detail that made it quick to pin down.
The callback log now shows the URL we actually requested. It used to display the URL you saved rather than the one that went over the wire, so it read back exactly as you had typed it while something different was being sent - which is precisely what hid the bug above. It now records the real request, parameters and all, and the test link shows the saved URL and the requested URL side by side. Turn on Track the next 30 calls from My Games and trigger a vote to see exactly what your server receives.
Still seeing rewards go missing? Tell us. If players are voting and not getting their in-game reward, use the feedback button at the top of any page and send us a bug report. Include your game and roughly when it last worked. We would rather hear about it twice than not at all.

UPDATES - 20th August 2026:

New: trade real players with other verified games. Put an exchange link on your own website and the players who click it travel through browsermmorpg.com and land on another verified game. Your voting incentive callback fires on the way, so your player still collects their in-game reward exactly as they would for a vote, and your listing earns one exchange point for every player you send. Nothing about your integration changes: if incentives already work for your votes, they already work for this.
Spend those points to have your own game be the destination. Send a hundred players out, collect a hundred points, and those points buy a hundred real players arriving on your site from ours. Destinations are served least recently visited first, so no single game can corner the queue, and your own players are never routed back to you. It is free for one month from the day you switch it on, and part of premium after that. Points are never taken away if premium lapses, they simply wait until you come back.
Every visit is logged, in and out. Your dashboard lists each player you sent and where they landed, each player another game sent you, and whether each trip was rewarded. If a destination is not a game you want your players seeing, block it outright - up to three at a time - or report it to our moderators. Verified listings only, on both ends. Start from My Games, or open Player exchange from your account menu.

UPDATES - 18th August 2026:

Validating your game as official does not require premium. It is completely free, it always was, and it is one of the strongest signals you can give the community that your listing is the real one and not a clone or a mirror. A bug in the article editor had been telling owners of free listings that their game's own full description was a premium-only category. Because a published description is one of the steps on the verification checklist, that quietly put the free blue badge behind the paywall. It is fixed. Thanks to Kurt for reporting it.
The long description you wrote when you registered is now on your game page. Descriptions submitted with a new listing were being filed as a news article instead of as the game's description, so the game page showed none of it and the verification checklist could never tick. We have moved 94 listings' descriptions to where they belong, and a description no longer counts against your two articles per 30 days. Check yours on your game page, and add or edit it from My Games.
The readiness checklist now applies wherever you start. Step 1 of verification lists what a listing needs first: approved, four images, a published description. Arriving from a notification used to skip straight past it. It does not any more, so a blue badge means the same thing on every listing that carries one. If something is still missing, the page names it and links you to the right place.

UPDATES - 12th August 2026:

You now find out why a submission was not approved. Until now a game or article that did not pass review was simply removed, and you were left guessing. From today a reviewer can turn it down with a written reason instead. You get an email straight away and a notice on your account, both saying exactly what needs fixing - a broken play link, a missing banner, an article that reads as an advert, whatever it happens to be.
Nothing is thrown away, and you can try again. A turned-down game keeps its listing data and a turned-down article keeps every word you wrote. Both stay in your account marked as not approved, with the reason next to them. Fix what was flagged, press Fix and resubmit, and it goes straight back into the review queue - normally looked at within 24 to 48 hours. You can do this as many times as you need. A turned-down article does not use up one of your monthly article slots.
Changes to a live listing get an answer too. When you edit a game or article that is already published, your edit goes through review. Previously a rejected edit disappeared silently. Now you are told it was not applied and why, and your published version stays exactly as it was in the meantime. Check My Games and My Articles.

UPDATES - 28th July 2026:

Upload images with your articles. The article editor now has image slots. Drop in a JPG, PNG or WebP and we handle the rest - it gets converted, resized and stored for you. Give each image a name and that name becomes its caption and its alt text, so search engines know what the picture shows. When your article is reviewed, your images are placed into it where they fit the writing, and readers can click any of them to open a full-size view. If you want a picture in one exact spot, put [[image:1]] in your text and it stays right there. Add yours from My Articles.

UPDATES - 24th July 2026:

Voting incentives are free for every verified game. Rewarding your players in-game for voting no longer needs premium. Any listing that has been verified as official can set a callback URL, and we will post back to it on every vote. Verification stays free, so this costs nothing. The pricing page said it was free while the setting sat behind the premium lock - the setting is now where the pricing page always said it was. Thanks to Aro from The Grail Lords for reporting it.
The callback debug tools come with it. Verified games can capture the next 30 postbacks we send - the exact request we POST and your server's reply, with status codes and timings - so you can get an integration working without guessing. There is also a test link that shows what we send without crediting a real vote. Set it up under My Games, in the Community tools.
Videos: one on the free tier, 500 with premium. Every verified listing can add a video, and premium listings can build a full library with scheduled release dates. If your game already has more videos than the free tier allows, nothing is removed and nothing is hidden - they all stay on your listing exactly as they are. You simply won't be able to add another until premium is active. The premium page previously described videos as premium-only, which was never how the code worked; both are now written the way they actually behave.

UPDATES - 21st July 2026:

Schedule your articles. When you post an article you can now pick a Publish date. Your article still goes through review, then it goes live on its own on the day you chose. Free games can line up one upcoming article, up to a month ahead; premium games can schedule as many as you like, up to six months in advance.

UPDATES - 18th July 2026:

New: email updates, your way. You can now get short email updates from BrowserMMORPG: follow a game you like, hear about new games as they are listed, or keep up with game news and articles. You choose how often - daily when there is something new, a weekly summary, or a monthly one - and whether it all arrives in one email or separate ones per topic. Look for the subscribe box on game pages, the news section and the new games list.
You stay in control. Every email includes links to change what you receive, change how often, or stop with one click. Account holders also get a new Newsletter page in the account menu showing their settings and every update they received. Past updates are public in the newsletter archive.

UPDATES - 17th June 2026:

New Backlinks page for game owners. Open it from your account menu, next to Game Comments, to see every backlink browsermmorpg.com gives your games in one place - the links inside your published articles, plus the toplist and front-page link your verified premium games receive. Each game is listed with its premium and verification status, and you can recheck or open any link.
See what your backlinks are worth. The page shows an estimated market value for your backlinks, and how much each one is actually costing you, so the SEO return on your premium listing is easy to see at a glance. Posting more articles with links to your own site grows that value over time.

UPDATES - 12th May 2026:

Refreshed article pages with a cleaner reading layout, plus a new per-game articles index that gathers every article published for a game in one place.
Several sections across the site have been made more compact, following direct feedback collected through the user polls. Keep the suggestions coming!

UPDATES - 11th May 2026:

Feature requests are now public. Every game has a dedicated feature requests page where all players can read what others have suggested and vote on the ideas they want to see implemented.
Bug reports get their own page too. Players can report issues for any game on a dedicated bug reports page, and game owners can reply directly to each report so everyone can follow the resolution.

UPDATES - 10th May 2026:

Pick your own site color! Click the color picker in the upper right corner to choose your preferred accent color across the site.

UPDATES - 9th May 2026:

Edit your reviews. Players can now edit reviews they previously posted, including switching the type of review between positive and negative. Any edited review goes back through the moderation queue before becoming public again.
Reply to page comments. Game owners can now reply directly to public comments left on their game page.
New 1-year subscription option with a 25% discount compared to monthly billing.
Premium benefits reconsidered and adjusted - clearer feature breakdown and better value across the board.
Various interface visual improvements and a better organized admin section.
Mobile interface tweaks and fixes for a smoother experience on small screens.
Menu structure adjustments for easier navigation.

UPDATES - 8th May 2026:

Feature request option instead of a negative vote. When a player is about to vote "No", they're now offered the option to send a fix or improvement request directly to the game owner instead of impacting their public reviews with a negative review. Game admins can review these on their dashboard once they've been moderated for safety and relevancy by our moderators.

UPDATES - 6th May 2026:

Public polls. Users can answer quick poll questions and earn Gold points for doing so. The questions adapt based on each user's previous answers, so only relevant polls are shown.

UPDATES - 30th April 2026:

New notifications system. A bell icon at the top of the site now lights up when something on your account needs your attention — game/article/review approvals, nudges you’ve been shown, and other system events. Click the bell to open the dropdown, or click a single notification for the full message.
Public user profile pages have been completely redesigned. The page you land on when you click someone’s name in a comment, review or game listing has a fresh editorial look and a different structure depending on who the member is:
- Game owners get a developer-style profile centred on their game — a featured game block with banner, status, vote ratio, rank and quick links to open or vote, plus an “also by” list of any other games they own.
- Regular members get a contributor card with their member stats and a unified activity feed of their recent reviews and comments, plus a grid of the games they engage with.
Vote-health warning for game owners. If one of your games hasn’t received any votes in the past 4 days, your own profile page will show a warning prompting you to check that the voting script is still installed correctly. Only you and admins can see it — visitors don’t. Catching a broken voting script early can be the difference between a stagnant rank and a recovering one.
The new profile pages are mobile-friendly and follow the same look as the redesigned articles section — cleaner lines, no rounded boxes, generous typography.

UPDATES - 23rd April 2026:

“Remember me” on login now actually works. Tick the box when you sign in and you’ll stay logged in on your device — no need to re-enter your password every visit. The sign-in cookie is also hardened (HTTPS-only, HttpOnly, SameSite) for better account security.

UPDATES - 14th April 2026:

Captcha migrated fully to Cloudflare Turnstile — Google reCAPTCHA has been removed from the site.

UPDATES - 13th April 2026:

New RSS feeds for the news section — a global feed covering all games, plus a dedicated per-game feed pointing to each game's own articles.
Registration tracking has been completely rebuilt. If you use our tracking codes on your site, please update them as soon as possible — the old snippets will no longer report correctly.
Design refresh across the site — hope you enjoy the new look! Feedback is very welcome, please drop us a line via the contact page.
Some features have been moved to the premium tier, including the rating card theme configurator.
Improved automatic styling for articles — Tailwind is still fully supported, but default HTML now renders with much nicer built-in styles out of the box.
Improved signup flow for a smoother registration experience.
Lots of major and minor bugfixes all over the place — and still plenty more on the way.

UPDATES - 30th November 2025:

Comments now work across the site: you can reply to game articles and also leave feedback directly on each game page.
All comments are moderated by the admin team; abuse, ads, or spam will trigger immediate account removal without prior warning.

UPDATES - 14th August 2025:

Rate card theme editor, now you can customize the look of the rate card
Rate cards are here! The voting snippet will now show a nice info rich rating card, with details about your listing. Check it out on your game list page.

UPDATES - 11th February 2025:

AI-powered Livechat feature added!
Ads layout changed a bit, hopefully less intrusive, feel free to share your feedback with us.

UPDATES - 11th February 2025:

We are experimenting with google automated ads for a while. At this point this is just an experiment to see how they will perform. If you find these annoying please let us know!

UPDATES - 27th April 2024:

Giftshop items are now shown on game page too

UPDATES - 22nd April 2024:

Historic Records page (Museum) , where all unlisted games are shown
Latest received vote on bmmo will make that game show on the voting page (could be changed to latest text review received, later)

UPDATES - 18th April 2024:

removed several inactive and no longer available games, still many more to review and clean
fixed the pagination at the bottom, thanks go to Cyriel from Crime Empires
All disabled games will be soon listed on a historic page. This is because many of them, some of them i even played, deserve to have some online history with their screenshots and player reviews.

UPDATES - 14th April 2024:

improvements to the article edit interface
Some articles had issues savig, some fixes have been made regarding this, but its still possible some will experience issues with this. If so, just write us to let us know.
fixed the magic button for rephrasing articles, but the generated output still has some issues and requires manual editing after auto-generation
Articles and game descriptions with less than 500 characters (but with at least 100), will be rewritten into complete articles by AI. You can write just your game or article main ideas and the AI will formulate it into an article. The original content will still be available on the same page under a new 'more info' section. This was added because many of the articles users submit lack in fomatting and content, but do have valuable information.

UPDATES - 4th January 2024:

"Remember-me" login option fixed

UPDATES - 5th December 2023:

Articles can now be html formatted and support tailwindcss styles and html. Please be advised that any attempt to abuse plain html input, will be sanctioned by immediate account removal without any warning, during the moderation stage of the article.
minor improvements to how pending articles are displayed, for more clarity
AI for writing articles has been fixed and its now formatting the output to be styled and structured properly

UPDATES - 11th November 2023:

For game owners, game menu was redesigned for better usability
You can now add your own giftshop items

UPDATES - 3rd November 2023:

Fixed look of giftshop page!

UPDATES - 24 July 2023:

Main game article / presentation now visible on the game page. For some reason, previously only the short description was shown. To edit/add a main article for your game just go to your dashboard and submit a "full description" article.

UPDATES - 20 February 2023:

Added a new section to the main page sidebar, to show recent gift shop purchases.
Started work on a new poll feature
Improvements to the admin area to help keep things running smoothly.

UPDATES - 7 February 2023:

Hundreds of old inactive games removed. This site is so ancient, and in these 15 years many listings where there but the games where not. Deleting player accounts that did not vote recently will also happen next.
Play button directly on listing pages for premium listings
New debug tools for the incentive mechanism that can help you test the incentive callback easier
There seems to be a bug with the vote count, i need to rewrite the entire vote count mechanism and reset all records at some point, still thinking if to do this or not, since its not affecting the relative ranks.
Fixed issue with some crons running multiple times
Fixed issue with premium payments not triggering premium status
Fixed issues with the unsubscribe button in emails, if you still received any emails the you shouldn't have, please help by reporting it and i will make sure it never happens again.

UPDATES - 26 January 2023:

Game pages done
Several other improvements
New AI Tools section!
fixed broken crons that spammed everyone by mistake, sorry for that :(

UPDATES - 20 January 2023:

I just realized we are celebrating 15 YEARS ! ..so in your honor, all our loyal members, here is a new, modern layout. Some things are not yet fully complete, but they will be. Your feedback is more than welcome. Check out the new AI features for article writing, and excuse the missing fancy editor for now. We continue work on the interface this week.

UPDATES - 12 January 2023:

We moved all game image content to a remote storage for faster speed and much better delivery. The upload interface was also changed a bit, but right now the demo banners are still the old ones. You can upload almost any type of images, and various sizes, and it will be ok.
Significant delays with the layout change, but the backend changes go well. Many years of ancient code are being rewritten right now, to finally update this site the way it deserves

UPDATES - 6 January 2023:

page loading speed dramatically increased
completely restructured backend, will allow faster feature updates
voting prune mechanism completely rewritten, more stable
New frontend design in work: 30% ready..