To be in the Games Level Up Program, gaming titles must meet the following requirements. These requirements will be updated on a regular cadence with reasonable developer notice.
a. Developers must publish titles on the following form factors with exemplary quality (as defined by the requirements below) starting in 2026: Mobile & Large Screen (Tablet, Android PC, Play Games on PC); starting 2027: XR (with titles running in a 2D window on the XR device), TV, Auto, except where the form factor’s constraints would meaningfully degrade a quality experience on that form factor (such as a location-based GPS experience on a TV), and except on particular devices where there is not a viable technical solution to provide a quality experience due to system constraints (e.g. memory, performance, storage, input, or operating system version).
When a game title in the Level Up program is published on one of these additional form factors the service fee rate caps in Section 9 will apply to that game title on that form factor.
i. Stability: Frame rate stability, Crash rate, ANR, memory usage thresholds
ii. Quality : Texture & model quality (metrics to be clearly defined) that are appropriate for device, Keyboard/Mouse& Controller support
iii. Maintain latest Android platform SDK standards (e.g 16kb, Vulkan)
iv. New titles need to be available on the following form factors: Mobile & Large Screen (Tablet, Android PC, Play Games on PC), XR (with titles running in a 2D window on the XR device), TV, and Auto, no later than their availability on other comparable non-Android platforms or such titles will not be eligible for the program benefits until 6mo after they fulfill all other program requirements across all form factors.
b. Developers must offer a consistent gamer experience by meeting experiential standards across games, including:
i. For games that support user accounts, integrate with our federated identity (Play Games Services (“PGS”) sign in) to enable social interoperability (see Section 12 below), provided Google makes these services available for use by apps distributed through third-party stores
ii. For games supporting saved game state, cloud saving of game progress (using any cloud provider)
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