Editorial Standards
The curation and review process behind every game and every list on Glaze Games.
Glaze Games is an editorial product. The catalog is hand-curated, the rankings are documented, and the safety bar is enforced by humans — not just algorithms. This page lays out exactly how that works, what we promise our users, and where we draw the line.
Every game has to clear all four
Quality, safety, performance, and ad experience — applied to every title in the catalog before it goes live. Failing any one is grounds for removal.
- Quality barEvery game in the catalog has to load in under five seconds on a Chromebook, work on touch, and finish a session without forcing the user to sign up. Anything that fails the first-five-minutes test gets cut.
- Safety barNo mature content. No gambling mechanics aimed at minors. No deceptive UI. Games featuring violence are flagged so parent and school audiences can avoid them through the /safe and /school filters.
- Performance barGames over 50 MB on first load are excluded. Auto-play with sound is blocked at the player level. The page itself is held to a Core Web Vitals "Good" threshold across LCP, INP, and CLS.
- Ad barIn-game ad networks our partner publishers use are reviewed for the same standards we hold our own ads to: no popunders inside the play area, no misleading "claim" buttons, no notifications begging for re-engagement.
How a game gets onto the site
Five stages, every title, every week. Nothing is published until it clears the whole pipeline.
Inventory intake
New titles come in nightly from a curated set of licensed HTML5 catalogs. Each title arrives with metadata for category, controls, orientation, rating, and play count.
Automated filters
A first pass strips anything tagged adult, gambling, or known-broken-on-mobile. Titles failing the provider quality score are quarantined until a human reviews them.
Editorial review
Borderline titles, anything in the "kids" or "safe" pipeline, and every game promoted to a /best list or /g guide is hand-played by a member of the team. A "no" from any reviewer is final.
Ranking
Live game pages are ranked by a combined-play-count plus rating score. We expose the formula publicly because the only way to keep a list honest is to make the math visible.
Re-audit
The full catalog is re-synced daily. Titles that lose their original embed, get reviewer complaints, or stop loading are dropped from the next morning’s sync — typically within 24 hours.
How we rank a "best of" list
Every list at /bestuses a single formula: combined play count from our publishing partners, plus the game’s rating multiplied by a thousand. We sort descending and slice to the target count. That’s it. No paid placement, no editorial favors, no "sponsored ranking" — the math is visible and identical for every list.
When a list has a stricter filter (e.g. 2-player only, safe for school), the filter applies before ranking. The score still does the ordering.
How we write a guide
Editorial guides at /gare written by humans on the team. Each guide pulls 6–10 games from the catalog by slug, so the picks always link to real, playable titles. Pitches are written in full sentences with a point of view. If a guide’s pick stops loading or gets pulled from the catalog, the page repairs itself on the next deploy and surfaces a replacement of comparable rank.
Corrections, complaints, and takedowns
Wrong information on a page? Email [email protected]with the URL and we’ll fix or remove it within one business day. Copyright or trademark concern? Use the DMCA process — verified rightsholder requests are honored inside of 48 hours. Safety report (a game that slipped through containing inappropriate content)? Same email, with "Safety" in the subject, and we treat it as a sev-1.
Trust signals at a glance
Plain-language policies, a real human on email, a documented IP process, and a parents guide that actually tells you what’s in the ad rotation.
- Plain-language policiesPrivacy, cookies, terms — all written in everyday English without dark patterns or hidden defaults.
- Real human on email[email protected] is read by a person every business day. Under-24-hour reply for safety reports.
- DMCA + IP protectionA documented takedown process. Verified rightsholder requests are honored within 48 hours.
- Parental controlsA dedicated parents guide, a /safe filter, and a /school filter for managed networks.