YouTube's terrible free games are now available to everyone, here's how to play them

Date:
Wed, 29 May 2024 17:30:00 +0000

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YouTube has rolled out its terrible free games to all YouTube users, but why would you want to play any of them?

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Over the past few months, a select group of people have been able to play games on YouTube , and now the feature has rolled out to everyone but take
it from me, theyre not worth your time.

Called Playables, YouTube has rolled out 75 titles today per its blog post announcement , all of which can be played for free in the mobile app or on your desktop. Plus, when you quit out of them, if you ever decide to return your progress will have been saved so you can pick up where you left off.

Ive been trying some of the Playables for research (and definitely not as a way to avoid work) but found none were that fun. Theyre mindless ways to burn through 10 minutes or so if youre desperately bored, but if youre on YouTube, there are literally millions of more entertaining ways to spend your time on the social media platform (like my recent obsession Jet lag: The Game , or watching The TechRadar Podcast )

Admittedly, Cut The Rope is a charming trip down memory lane with a classic smartphone app, but many other games are those mindless puzzle games you see in TikToks or YouTube Shorts. After a minute, they lose all appeal.

Its certainly nothing close to matching the quality of the Netflix games catalog though I guess you are paying for those titles as part of a subscription so you should expect them to be higher quality. Heres how you
can find YouTubes games (Image credit: YouTube)

If youre still interested in finding YouTubes new games heres how.

On desktop, head to the YouTube homepage and scroll through the menu on the left side of the screen until you find the Explore section. At the bottom of thissubmenu, you should see Playables, click on it and youll have found the games you seek.

On the mobile app, you'll also hit the compass symbol in the top right corner on the homepage. From here, tap on playables at the bottom of the menu, and youll find them.

On either platform, youll first load into the home menu, which shows you a
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