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What a game offer actually is

An advertiser — usually a mobile game studio — wants players who will still be there in a week. Paying for installs alone gets them people who open the app once and delete it, so instead they pay for a milestone: reach level 500, finish chapter 3, get to village 15.

That milestone is the whole deal. The payout you see is the price the advertiser put on someone reaching it. We are paid when you do, and you are paid a share.

The kind of games these offers run on

Reward offers follow advertising budgets, so they cluster on the biggest games in the market. These are the titles that show up on reward platforms again and again — including ours, though availability changes constantly and varies by country, so treat this as the shape of the category rather than a menu:

Game	Genre	What a reward offer usually asks for
Monopoly GO!	Dice / board	Reach a board level or an album milestone
Royal Match	Match-3 puzzle	Clear a specific level, often several hundred in
Coin Master	Board / spins	Reach a numbered village
Candy Crush Saga	Match-3 puzzle	Clear a level milestone
Gardenscapes · Homescapes	Match-3 + story	Finish an area or chapter
Whiteout Survival	Survival strategy	Reach a furnace or HQ level

If you have never heard of the game and the reward looks unusually large, that is a reason to read the terms carefully rather than to click faster.

What game offers actually pay

Nobody in this niche likes publishing this, so here is what independent testing outside our own platform reports:

• Dedicated play-to-earn apps such as Mistplay: $0.50–$1.50 per active hour. One reviewer who timed it reached $10 in 18 hours — about $0.56/hour.
• Offerwall platforms like Freecash: $2–$5 per hour on game offers, $3–$8 across offer types, with independent reviewers putting realistic all-in rates nearer $1–$3/hour.
• Deep milestone offers are advertised at $50 and up. They are real and they are rare, and they take days to weeks of genuine play.

Two things follow. The hourly rate on games is low — this is not a wage and we are not going to suggest otherwise. And the spread is enormous, which means offer selection matters more than time spent.

We do not publish a monthly figure, because it would be a guess. What we do publish is the exact payout on each offer card, before you start.

What decides your payout

• How hard the milestone is. This dominates everything. A first-session goal is worth little; a level that takes a week of evenings is worth a lot, because far fewer people get there.
• Your country. An advertiser’s budget per player is set by what a player in that market is worth to them. The same offer can pay several times more in the US, UK, Canada or Australia, and many offers are not available elsewhere at all. This is the single biggest reason two people see completely different walls.
• The device. Many game offers are Android- or iOS-only. If a wall looks empty, check the device before anything else.

How long it takes

This is the number to look at before the payout, and almost nobody prints it.

“Reach level 500” can mean two evenings or three weeks depending on the game’s pacing — and pacing is designed to slow down exactly where a paid milestone tends to sit. Before starting, look at the milestone rather than the amount, and ask whether you would still be playing that game in three days without being paid. If not, the offer is probably not worth starting.

Shorter offers pay less on paper but finish, which is worth more than a large payout abandoned at level 380.

What happens after you hit the milestone

1. The game tells the ad network you reached it.
2. The network tells us, and the reward appears in your balance as pending.
3. It clears after a holding window.
4. Once cleared it can be withdrawn. The first withdrawal goes through identity verification, and every withdrawal is reviewed by a person before it is sent.

Steps 3 and 4 are where reward platforms differ most, and where the honest answer is less flattering than the marketing. The holding window is not us being slow — it is the gap between the advertiser saying you completed something and the advertiser being sure. Conversions get reversed. A platform that pays instantly and never reverses is either absorbing that cost or is about to stop paying instantly.

Before you start

• Start from the offer link, every time. Opening the game from the App Store directly breaks attribution, and there is often no way to reattach it.
• Turn off the VPN. Offers are geo-targeted, and a mismatch between your account country and your connection is one of the most common rejection reasons.
• Do not uninstall until the reward has cleared. Some advertisers check the app is still installed at the point of payment.
• One account. Multiple accounts are the fastest way to lose a balance you actually earned.

Start with $5 on us, pick one offer with a milestone you would genuinely reach, and judge it on that.