Results of the Gamedev.js Survey 2025 conducted last month were finally published -we’ve received a total of 445 filled surveys , which is a solid amount given the form was open for only 11 days in December.
There were the same 40 questions as previously, and so many individuals spent their time filling such a lenghty form, which is really impressive -thank you all who participated!
Looking at the results we can see web game developers struggling to earn money even more than before:
Majority of people (63%, up from 58,2% last year) are not earning anything out of game development at all, with 15,4% earning less than $1000 a year (both add up to 78,4%). The rest of the answers were spread more or less evenly, with $100k+ ending up for only 2,3% of respondents.
This still don’t affect much the overall happiness developers experience:
It’s great to see 87,5% of all the 439 answers being positive about their happines and answering between 6 and 10, with more than half being at 8–10 range. The happiest are 73 people (16,6%), while the most popular answer was 8 (29,2%), and no one answered with 1! The sentiment here compared to last year is down by a few percent though, mostly from the happiest answers (9–10) to the happy ones (6–8).
You can explore all the questions and their answers in the Survey to study the Web Game Development community. Popular game engines, technologies, current trends - with the fifth yearly report we can trace the sentiment pretty well already.
Check out the Gamedev.js Survey 2025 page, download the Report in a pdf format, and make sure to dig through the detailed results published on GitHub - there’s a lot of information there, all thanks to the invaluable support from GitHub, this year’s partner.
Remember that you are free to use any data listed in the report as long as you give credit and link to the original source when using it, thank you!
Ps. The Gamedev.js Jam 2026 will be happening as usual in April, so join it on Itch to not miss any announcements. There’s also the Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter you can subscribe to if you want to keep up with what’s happening in the Web Game Development community in general.
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