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Where to submit your daily game: 15 directories compared
The AI assistant answers to "where to submit my daily game" cite listdle.com more than any other daily-game directory, in 4 of 12 prompts we checked; this piece compares 15 directories, relaydle included, on submission method, account needs, ranking, and whether the link back to your game even reaches your analytics.
How this was made. Every directory's submission page was fetched directly (or via WebSearch when the fetch was blocked) on 2026-09-25, and each one's outbound game link was pulled with curl using a desktop Chrome user agent to record its rel attribute, referrer behaviour and UTM tags; relaydle's own link was confirmed by reading src/site/directory/outbound.ts and the /games/:id/play route. AI citation counts come from a 12-prompt check run on 2026-09-09. Drafted with AI from that data, with every figure checked against the source data.
Disclosure first: relaydle is itself one of the directories in this comparison. It is a free directory ranked by "seen" (rail impressions plus directory views over a rolling 30 days, recomputed hourly, no paid placement), and it is listed honestly in the table below rather than left out.
Where can I submit a daily game?
The table checks 15 places on 2026-09-25, most by fetching their submission page directly. "Games listed" is each site's own claimed count; "order" is how it sorts the list a player sees; "referrer / UTM" says whether a game that gets listed can actually see the traffic in its own analytics.
| Directory | How to submit | Account needed | Games listed | Order | Link type | Referrer / UTM | Sponsored placements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| relaydle.com | Form at /submit: paste your URL, confirm the parsed details, add an email | No | 58 (checked 2026-09-25) | seen.total: rail impressions + directory views, 30 days, hourly | Followed, via a /games/<id>/play redirect | Referrer stripped by policy, but utm_source=relaydle&utm_medium=directory added to the URL | None sold |
| listdle.com | Form at /submit: URL + title required | No | 700+ across 14 categories | By category, plus editorial picks | Followed, rel="noreferrer" | Referrer stripped, utm_source=listdle added | Yes: at least one listing marked "Sponsored", carrying utm_campaign=listdle_sponsored |
| dlelist.com | Form at /submit | No | 907 picks across 19 categories | By category, "sorted by usefulness" | Followed, plain link, no rel | Default referrer sent, no UTM seen | Not found |
| alldle.net | Form at /submit: name + URL | No | 1,251 across 17 categories | Trending / Most played / New releases | Not confirmed (cards are JS-rendered, no link in the page source) | Not confirmed | Not found |
| dailydle.org | Form at /submit: name, email, your relationship to the game | No account to submit | 256+ across 8 categories | Popular / Recently added / category / curated lists | Followed, rel="noopener", referrerpolicy="origin" | Origin only sent, no UTM | Yes: "weekly spotlight and sponsored placements that rotate regularly" |
| dlehunt.com | "Submit a dle" button, then editorial review before it publishes | No login to submit | 689 across 11 categories | By rating / plays / favorites | Link sits in a JS payload, not a plain link in the page source | Not confirmed; utm_source=dlehunt.com added once the link resolves | Not found |
| 1jour1jeu.com | Contact form ("Proposer un jeu") | No | 170+ across 9 categories | Game of the Day, category, popular, newest | Not confirmed (homepage is a JS shell) | Not confirmed | None stated |
| jeux-du-jour.fr | General contact form at /contact/; no dedicated submission form | No | 130 to 160+, French-only | Popularity, category, recency | Followed, but rel="noopener noreferrer" on the game link | Referrer stripped, no UTM: this traffic is unmeasurable | None stated |
| adoryvo.github.io/lists/dailies.html | GitHub issue on the repo, or email | GitHub account for an issue, or none for email | 150+, alphabetical by category | Alphabetical within category | Followed, plain static link | Default referrer, no UTM | None |
| dles.aukspot.com | Tally form, GitHub issue, or a pull request adding to dles.json | No account for the Tally form | 759, across 17 categories | By category; a player can reorder categories | Followed, plain static link | Default referrer, no UTM | None |
| prakhar897/awesome-wordle | Pull request to README.md | GitHub account | 120+, flat alphabetical list | Alphabetical | Followed, static markdown link | Default referrer, no UTM | None |
| AntJanus/awesome-wordle-clones | Pull request to README.md | GitHub account | 6 games | Unordered flat list | Followed, static markdown link | Default referrer, no UTM | None |
| Product Hunt | Submit under a personal account (company accounts not allowed) | Personal account required | Not a game-specific directory | Upvotes / launch-day ranking | Not independently re-verified this check | Not confirmed | None found |
| Hacker News (Show HN) | Self-post to news.ycombinator.com | HN account required | Not a persistent listing, posts scroll off | Chronological, then the ranking algorithm | Followed | Default referrer, no UTM | None |
| itch.io, tag "daily" | Publish your own itch.io page and add the tag | itch.io account required | Not counted; browsable by tag | Recency / popularity toggle | Followed, each page its own link | Not confirmed | None found |
No directory in this table applies nofollow, ugc or sponsored to a game's outbound link. That sounds generous, but it cuts the other way for measurement: without nofollow there is nothing stopping the link from passing authority, and without a UTM tag there is nothing telling the destination game where the click came from either.
Which directories should I submit to first?
Start with the ones an AI assistant actually names back. A check of 12 prompts like "where can I list my daily puzzle game", run on 2026-09-09, found itch.io cited in 5 answers and listdle.com in 4, the most of any site built only for daily games; adoryvo.github.io's list appeared in 3, daily-games.app in 2, and alldle.net, dailydle.org and dlehunt.com once each. That is a citation count, not a promise of clicks, since none of it says how often a reader who sees the citation actually visits and plays.
Past that ranking, submit to whichever directories cost you nothing to try: listdle.com, dlelist.com, alldle.net, dailydle.org and dles.aukspot.com all take a form with no account. The GitHub lists (adoryvo's, prakhar897's, AntJanus's) take a pull request instead, which is slower to land but permanent once merged. If your game has a French version, 1jour1jeu.com and jeux-du-jour.fr are the two French-first directories in this set.
How do I know if a directory actually sent me traffic?
Check utm_source in your own analytics before you check your referrer report, because several of these links strip the referrer on purpose. listdle.com and jeux-du-jour.fr both set rel="noopener noreferrer" on the game link, which means the destination page never receives a Referer header at all. listdle.com still adds utm_source=listdle to the URL, so a game that reads UTM parameters can catch that click; jeux-du-jour.fr adds no tag of any kind, so any traffic it sends lands in the same "direct, no referrer" bucket as a bookmark or an app switch, indistinguishable and unmeasurable with ordinary analytics.
relaydle's own outbound link works the same way in one half and differently in the other: the /games/<id>/play redirect sends referrer-policy: no-referrer, so the destination sees no Referer header either, but it appends utm_source=relaydle&utm_medium=directory to the URL first. A listed game that checks utm_source can tell a directory click from a direct visit; one that only reads its referrer report cannot. dlehunt.com does the same with utm_source=dlehunt.com. The lesson holds across all of them: if a directory does not tag its link, do not expect to see its traffic show up as anything but "direct."
What isn't actually a submission target?
Two sites get cited by AI assistants as daily-game directories but are not places to list an outside game. playdaily.org hosts its own family of games (Songless, Krillion, Bandle Unlimited and others) plus an archive of them; the only outbound link found on it points back to its own "Rate us on Listdle" listing, not out to third-party submissions. thinkygames.com is a games-journalism site with its own curated database and a first-party puzzle series, "Thinky Dailies"; it has no creator-submission form. Pitching thinkygames.com a feature story is a fair strategy, but it is not the same move as filling out a submission form, and treating either as a directory to submit to will waste the attempt.
Was dlehunt.com's login requirement real?
Our own earlier notes on this ranked dlehunt.com "blocked" on the grounds that submitting needed a login. Checked again on 2026-09-25, the page itself contradicts that: the "Submit a dle" button needs no account to use, and the account gate we recorded does not exist at that step. What dlehunt.com does require is editorial review before a submission goes live, which is a slower path than a form that publishes instantly, but it is not a login wall. This is worth re-checking by hand before you rely on it, since submission requirements on any of these sites can change without notice.
If you want your game counted rather than just listed, relaydle's own submission form takes a URL and an email, ranks by how often a card is actually seen rather than by who joined first, and never sells a placement. Read how the rail works for the win-screen widget that trades traffic with other member games once you are listed, or see what running relaydle's directory taught us about ads and cross-promotion for how the same 58 games in this directory fund themselves.