Rules
BidYourGame is one public leaderboard for games. Your position is decided by a single number: the dollar amount attached to your listing. Nothing else is weighed - not ratings, not downloads, not reviews. Rank is the bid.
Minimum bid is $1. Beat any spot by $1 to take it.
Ranking
- Bids are whole US dollars. A new listing starts at $1; the ceiling for any listing is $999,999.
- To take any spot - including #1 - you only need to beat the amount sitting there by $1. Bidding less is fine too: you simply land wherever your amount fits in the order.
- Existing listings keep their amount until their owner raises it or someone passes them. When two listings hold the same amount, the older bid keeps the higher rank - so matching alone never takes a place.
- Paste the same game link again to raise your own listing. Your new total must be at least $1 above what you already hold, and you are charged only the gap between the two. Nobody else can leapfrog you by paying that gap - a different game always pays its full bid.
- Listings are keyed by platform id (Steam appid, App Store id, Play package name, or canonical URL), so every game has exactly one spot. Tracking parameters in links are stripped and ignored.
What can be listed
- Any playable game: a browser/web game URL, a Steam store page, an App Store listing or a Google Play listing.
- Name, icon, description and screenshots are pulled from the platform at bid time and refreshed each time the listing is raised. You cannot supply your own copy or images - what the platform shows is what the board shows.
- Chat invites (Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp), link shorteners and affiliate URLs are not accepted.
- Games that get pulled from their platform may be removed from the board without refund.
Once you have paid
- Your rank is claimed the moment the payment completes - not when the checkout opens.
- The listing is public. Every click goes straight to your store page through a counted redirect with UTM tags, and totals are shown on the board.
- Bids are not refundable when you get outranked. Being passed is the whole game; raise your bid to climb back.
Payments & disputes
- Checkout is handled by our payment provider as merchant of record. By finishing a checkout you confirm that you chose the amount yourself, understood that it buys a position on a public board rather than a product or service, and authorise the charge.
- A position can be overtaken at any time by a higher bid. That is how the board works and it is not grounds for a refund or dispute.
- If something went wrong - a double charge, a listing that never appeared - contact support first using the address on your receipt. We resolve genuine errors quickly.