Research by distribution platform Playgama shows the number of HTML5 games released in the first half of 2025 had almost tripled year-on-year to 15,000. That’s also 4.9 times the number that launched in H1 2023. Fellow distribution service Poki reports that it is seeing 100m monthly active users in 2026, up an order of magnitude since 2020’s 10m. https://mcvuk.com/business-news/why-browser-games-are-the-next-billion-dollar-bet/