Report
The state of YouTube Playables in November 2026
Nov 15, 2026
This is the YouTube Playables catalog on November 15, 2026: how big it is, how fast it is growing and where the plays go. Live versions of these numbers are on the statistics page.
The catalog: 1,207 games
YouTube Playables has 1,207 games from 180 publishers. Together they have 5.43 billion plays. The median game has 565K.
Most of the catalog is new. Of the games live today, 31 were released in 2023, 69 in 2024, 93 in 2025 and 1,014 in 2026. In other words, 84% of the catalog appeared this year.
Releases are accelerating
The number of new games per month has grown through 2026, and November set a record in its first 15 days.
In the last 30 days 380 games came out, about 13 a day. These counts include only games that are still in the catalog.
Plays are concentrated at the top
Five games have passed 100M plays: Tall Man Run (113M), Build a Queen (109M), Snake Clash! (107M), Going Balls (105M) and Stealth Master (100M). The top 10 games hold 18% of all plays and the top 100 hold 64%.
| Plays | Games | Share of catalog |
|---|---|---|
| under 10K | 170 | 14% |
| 10K to 100K | 164 | 14% |
| 100K to 1M | 388 | 32% |
| 1M to 10M | 341 | 28% |
| 10M to 100M | 139 | 12% |
| 100M and more | 5 | under 1% |
40% of games have reached 1M plays and 12% have reached 10M. These shares are pulled down by the wave of new releases: a game that came out last week has not had time to collect plays. Among the 550 games older than 90 days, 67% have reached 1M. That is why age matters when reading the counter. More on that in what plays mean.
Genres
Brain & Puzzle is the largest genre with 377 games (31%), followed by Simulation with 242 (20%), Arcade with 190 (16%), Action with 151 (13%) and Racing with 92 (8%). The other six genres together make up 12% of the catalog.
Publishers
Two publishers release far more games than anyone else: Mediacube with 205 and Playgama with 169. Together that is 31% of the catalog. In the last 30 days they released 78 and 43 games.
By plays the order is different. Supersonic Studios leads with 12.6% of all plays from 13 games, then Playgama with 10.5%, SayGames with 9.9%, Famobi with 7.4% and CrazyLabs with 6.3%. The ten largest publishers hold 65% of all plays.
At the other end, 81 of the 180 publishers have a single game in the catalog.
Growth in mid-November
Between November 12 and 15 the catalog added about 51M plays, and 676 games showed visible growth. Plays are rounded, so the growth of the largest games is approximate. The current leaders are on the trending page.
Data: Playables Radar, November 15, 2026. Plays count launches, not unique players.