Get paid to play and cover indie games

Create a free profile, browse open campaigns from studios, and apply to the ones that fit your channel. You do not need a huge follower count. Many indie studios care more about audience fit, engagement, genre, and past work than raw reach.

Yes. Bounty Board is built for gaming creators who do not have a million followers yet. Studios can choose creators based on fit, audience, platform, and past work. If a campaign matches your channel, you can apply, create the work, and get paid when the studio approves it.

Every campaign is one game, one brief, a close date, and a way to earn. The studio picks one of three kinds:

• Content: creators post about the game. The studio pays a set price per approved piece, or a rate per 1,000 views up to a cap per post, with views measured automatically on YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and TikTok.
• Playtest: testers play for a set time and answer the studio’s questions. Each accepted report pays a flat fee, or testers get the game instead of cash.
• Competition: entrants compete for the top score, the fastest time, or the most views on their posts, and the top finishers win from the prize pool.
• Rewards can be cash, game keys, or both. Every campaign is funded up front through Stripe when it is published, and any unused budget is refunded to the studio with its share of the platform fee, less Stripe’s processing fee on the refund, when the campaign closes. A campaign that pays no cash (game keys only, or a free playtest) is funded by its $29 listing fee and holds no other money.

Payment is sent to your Stripe account when the studio approves your work. Stripe then holds the payout for 7 days so any disputes can be resolved before funds reach your account. Creators receive the listed reward minus the 10% creator platform fee. Campaigns pay in these ways:

• Per approved piece: the price the studio set.
• Per view: a rate per 1,000 views, measured automatically on YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and TikTok, up to a cap per post.
• Competitions: prizes for the top finishers when the ranking closes.
• Game keys: delivered to your campaign chat when your application is approved.

Some campaigns pay a base reward plus a bonus based on measured views. View based bonuses and results based payouts are measured automatically for YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and TikTok. Instagram and TikTok views are read through the creator’s connected account (an Instagram professional account, or their TikTok account). Other platforms, such as X and websites, cannot be measured automatically, so work there is reviewed and approved manually.

A playtest campaign asks people to play your game and tell you what they think. You set how many minutes to play, the questions to answer, and how many testers you want. Each report you accept pays the flat fee you set, or testers get a game key or early access with no cash. Playtests can be open to gamers as well as creators.

Yes. Competitions rank entries on a leaderboard, for example the fastest speedrun time or the highest score on your game, or the most views on creators’ posts about it, measured automatically on YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and TikTok. The top finishers win from the prize pool when the ranking closes. Score competitions can be open to gamers as well as creators. Competition budgets are funded up front, and any unused budget is refunded to the studio when the competition closes, less Stripe’s processing fee on the refund.

Campaign rewards can include game keys, on their own or alongside cash. Keys are delivered automatically to the creator’s campaign chat when their application is approved. Bounty Board records delivery only, it does not track whether a key is redeemed in a store.

On a cash campaign funded up front, work the studio has not reviewed 14 days after it was submitted is accepted and paid automatically, unless the studio flagged it for Bounty Board to review. Joining a cash campaign or entering a competition needs a connected Stripe account first; key only campaigns do not.

Yes. The same Agents page connects a creator account to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT or any MCP client. Your agent can find open campaigns, read a brief, apply or claim a spot, hand in links and playtest reports, enter competitions, reply in your work threads, edit your profile, and show your open work and earnings. It can only do what you allow, and it never moves money: you are paid when the studio approves your work on the site.

They are connected but independent. A studio can run creator campaigns for a game that is also playable in the Arcade, and creators can play a campaign game in the browser before applying. Publishing a game in the Arcade does not create a campaign by itself, and a campaign does not require an Arcade build.

The creator owns it, including after payment.

• When the work is paid, the studio gets a permanent, non exclusive license to use, embed, and share it to promote the game, including on store pages, social accounts, and trailers.
• Paid advertising use needs the creator’s permission unless the campaign brief included it.
• Studios can post different rights terms, such as exclusivity or a full ownership transfer, in the campaign brief. Those terms cannot change after your application is approved.
• Work paid before October 22, 2026 stays under the earlier default, where ownership transferred to the studio on payment.

Yes, creators always retain an irrevocable right to display their work in portfolios for self promotion, regardless of any custom terms. This portfolio right cannot be waived or restricted by exclusivity provisions.

Yes. Creators must clearly disclose paid campaign work and free product, including game keys, in the content itself, following the FTC’s endorsement guidance and each platform’s branded content rules. Studios must not pay for a positive opinion, and campaigns must not request, compensate, or reward storefront reviews on Steam or any other store. Review solicitation in exchange for money, keys, or rewards violates store policies and is prohibited on Bounty Board.