It’s too frustrating playing games that are too buggy to get through the tutorial, much less to the cash-out point. We’ll see how far you actually get if you try it yourself. Extrapolating out, it would have taken me 2.5 hours to earn $5, which is a $2/hour rate. In practice… The hourly rate for Rewarded Play : In theory, you can earn money playing games with Rewarded Play. I needed 45,000 points to earn the minimum, which was a $5 Amazon gift card. However, these games were all so boring and glitchy (and full of ads) that I gave up after an hour faffing about downloading different games and trying to figure out what counted as a tutorial. Play them all for the specified minimum time and The reality of Rewarded Play :ĭownload three games which I chose more or less at random Rewarded Play “rewards” you for downloading games, playing them for a minimum time (usually about 2 minutes), spending money in-app (lol) and leveling up in-game. Rewarded Play Review Rewarded Play’s offer: Screenshots I took of the Mistplay app, showing how I earn Gems with Mistplay, earn money playing games through Mistplay, and finally actually cash out my whole $1.50 with Mistplay. You can earn some money for doing it, probably around $5 a week if you spend an hour per night on it and download lots of different games. I love listening to audiobooks while mindlessly tapping away. If you like playing these sorts of time-wasting mobile games anyway and you have the battery to spare, why not? I don’t judge you for it.

Yes, you really can earn money playing games! My verdict on Mistplay: Another 50c in the Amazon bank! The hourly rate for Mistplay: Within 20 minutes I was able to earn another 462 gems with the introductory bonuses. I then downloaded another game through Mistplay, because the earlier levels earn you gems faster. This was enough to purchase me not one, but two 50c Amazon gift cards. After accidentally spending a jaw-dropping two hours playing it (whoops), I earned a grand total of 842 gems. I picked a Farmville-esque game called “Family Island ™️- Farming” because I love pseudo-productivity games where you click on things to make things to build other things. It merely claims you can earn money while playing. This app doesn’t make any huge promises, unlike some of the other ones. You can then turn the gems into gift cards, including Amazon, PayPal, Visa, Starbucks, H&M, and others. You earn “gems” for downloading the game, spending a certain amount of time playing it, leveling up, and other arbitrary “achievements” like playing it for one hour after 11 pm for some reason. Mistplay tracks the time you play the games it recommends. To earn money playing games with Mistplay, it asks you to download and play on apps. Helpfully, I was then shown additional “earn money playing games” apps in subsequent ads on those apps I downloaded. I found them by clicking on the original Tumblr ad I was served. I love working on my freelance journey, but of course, if I could really make money just by playing games, I would. Or worse - they’re just a side hustle scam.īut yesterday, I saw yet another ad as I was scrolling on Tumblr that promised to pay me real dollars if I just installed an app and played a game! (The ad showed a woman getting an $800 PayPal deposit, which, I have to admit, did sound very appealing.) Earn money playing games? Sign me up.Īfter doing some research on this income stream, it looked like many personal finance influencers thought that earning money playing games merited enough attention to fully call it a side hustle. In my experience, the “easiest” ways to make money involve a lot of work behind the scenes, or don’t actually make money. I’m skeptical of allegedly easy ways to make money.

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