How We Test and Write About Games

This page explains where the games on PlayTundra come from, what we check before a game goes live, how the text on each game page is produced, and how to tell us when something is wrong. We publish it because a site that embeds other people's games owes readers a clear account of what it actually adds.

Where the games come from

Every game is delivered through a licensed HTML5 distribution network that holds distribution rights from the original developers. We do not download, re-host, decompile or modify game files, and we never embed a game from a source we cannot trace to its developer or distributor. Titles that trade on someone else's brand — clones of well-known franchises, look-alikes named after popular games — are excluded even when a distributor offers them, because they mislead players and are unfair to the original studios.

What we check before a game is listed

• It loads where our readers are. Each embed and its thumbnail are fetched from a server in the United States before the page is built. A game that redirects, errors or has been withdrawn by its distributor is not listed; games already listed are re-checked every day and removed or replaced if their source breaks.
• It fits the screen people actually use. Most of our visitors play on laptops and Chromebooks, so portrait-only mobile builds are not accepted.
• Its controls are documented by the developer. If the distributor's listing carries no usable control information, we do not guess and we do not list the game.
• It is safe for a shared screen. No gore, gambling, adult content or political figures. Cartoon combat is fine; blood tags are not.

How the text on a game page is written

Every game page has a description, a how-to-play section, a control reference, tips, and on most pages a longer strategy guide and a short set of questions. All of it is written for this site and is not copied from the distributor listing or from other game sites. The control reference and the mechanics we describe are checked against the developer's own description and instructions for that exact build — matched by the game's unique distribution ID rather than by title, because several unrelated games share names. When the developer's notes and our first draft disagreed, the developer's notes won; through September 2026 we corrected control and mechanic errors on more than a hundred pages this way, and we keep a list of pages still to be re-checked.

What we deliberately do not do: we do not invent level counts, timers, damage numbers or unlock rules we have not seen, we do not pad pages with generic text that could apply to any game, and we do not publish a page whose only content is the game frame.

Guides

Our guides are built from the same per-game data: when a guide says two players share the arrow keys and WASD, that is what the control reference on the game's own page says, and that reference was checked as described above. Guides are dated and updated when the catalog changes.

Advertising

PlayTundra is funded by advertising. Ads inside a game are placed by the game's distributor under its own agreement with the developer; ads on our pages, when present, are served by third-party networks. Neither influences which games we list or how we describe them. Our privacy policy covers the data those networks may process.

Corrections and requests

If a control is wrong, a game is broken, or you hold rights to a title and want it removed, use the contact page. Rights-holder requests and broken-game reports are handled first; corrections are made on the page itself and the page's update date is changed so the fix is visible.