YouTube takes a swing at gaming with ‘Playables’, over 75 games now available for playing for free — Check full details

YouTube is taking a swing at gaming, much like Netflix and LinkedIn. The Google-owned video sharing platform has announced that its collection of lightweight, free games, known as “Playables,” will soon be available to all users within the YouTube app. Initially, these games were offered to select users for testing and later made available to YouTube Premium subscribers last November.

Unlike traditional app store games, YouTube’s Playables don’t monetise through paid downloads or in-app purchases—yet—thus avoiding direct competition with the app store model and circumventing Apple’s regulations. In the future, free games on YouTube could potentially become another venue for ads, although Google has not indicated any plans to monetize Playables yet.