Kongregate is an American web gaming portal and video game publisher. Its website features over 124,000 online games and 30+ mobile games available to the public. The company also publishes games for PC, mobile, and home consoles. It was purchased by GameStop in 2010 before being acquired by Modern Times Group in 2017.
The website's portfolio of games spans a wide range of genres. Kongregate is the home for several idle/clicker games, including Adventure Capitalist, Clicker Heroes, Crusaders of the Lost Idols, and Anti-Idle: The Game.
On the web portal, users could upload Adobe Flash, HTML5/JavaScript, Adobe Shockwave, Java, and Unity games with integrated high scores and achievement badges. The portal was closed to new user submissions in 2020, though previously submitted games remain.
On July 23, 2010, GameStop announced an agreement to acquire Kongregate. In 2014, the site introduced digital creatures called Kongpanions, which act as a site-wide achievement system and metagame. The creatures often take the form of animals or Anthropomorphism objects. The Kongpanions which players collect can be used in some games on the site.
In 2024 it was announced that game development studio Monumental acquired Kongregate.
Kongregate announced plans in October 2016 to help developers bring their games to the Steam distribution platform with an updated software development kit to make it easy to port games between Kongregate's web and mobile platforms as well as the Steam platforms (Windows, macOS, and Linux). It also simplified for players data sharing between the platforms. That enabled games to take advantage of through the Steam store for titles otherwise normally free-to-play. In 2016, Kongregate received Apple Editors' Choice for BattleHand and The Trail, and the company received Google Play Editors' Choice for Animation Throwdown and AdVenture Capitalist. BattleHand and The Trail were voted as Best of 2016 by Apple, and Animation Throwdown and The Trail were voted Best of 2016 by Google Play.
On June 20, 2017, Kongregate announced it had closed a deal to be acquired by Swedish entertainment company Modern Times Group for $55 million. That followed MTG's recent purchase of 51% of Hamburg-based online game developer InnoGames in 2016 and 2017. Planned as part of the deal was a change in focus from hosting third-party games to driving game development as well. "...we'll be deepening our investment in several areas, from marketing/marketing tech to platform engineering. We're also going to be investing in first-party development and potential acquisitions of our own within the games space," said CEO Emily Greer. On October 5, 2017, Kongregate acquired Chicago-based Synapse Games, the developer of Animation Throwdown.
On May 2, 2019, Kongregate announced that Greer, the co-founder and CEO was leaving the company. She was replaced by COO Pany Haritatos as an interim CEO. In December 2019, Kongregate acquired Surviv.io, a free-to-play online game. On July 1, 2020, Kongregate announced the discontinuation of submissions as it prepared for the end-of-life for Adobe Flash Player by December 31, 2020, during which time the software required to run most of its games would be disabled in some browsers. Other features of the site such as the forums were also halted at the time as the Kongregate team worked on transitioning their internal titles to HTML5.
Kartridge shut down in September 2023.
+ !Kongregate mobile games released to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store |
AdVenture Capitalist |
AdVenture Communist |
Realm Grinder |
Pocket Politics |
Pocket Politics 2 |
Where's My Water 2 |
Super Fancypants Adventure |
Crossword Safari Word Hunt |
Cosmo Quest |
Hero's of Ring: Dragon War |
Idle Payday: Fast Money |
Office Space: Idle Profits |
Lionheart Tactics |
Endless Boss Fight |
Tyrant: Unleashed |
Dragon Idle Adventure |
BattleHand |
Spellstone |
Little Alchemist |
Royal Idle: Medieval Quest |
Maleficent: Free Fall |
Inside Out: Thought Bubbles |
The Trail |
The PowerPuff Girls: Monkey Mania |
Idle Frontier: Tap Town Tycoon |
Surviv.io (Sunset on March 2, 2023) |
Zen Idle |
Bit Heroes |
Animation Throwdown: The Collectible Card Game |
Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre |
Run |
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TMNT: Mutant Madness |
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