Web gaming grows in 2026 as console and mobile momentum slows, new report finds

A format that opens in a browser, asks for no download and is built around discovery lowers the cost of putting a game in front of a large audience, which counts for most among creators working without the budgets of the established studios.

In the same survey, 53% of developers said they planned to bring a mobile game to the browser within a year, and only 8% ruled out the web entirely.

Nearly half of those surveyed, 46%, said they had abandoned a mobile game because it took too long to load, and 28% had dropped one because the download was too large.