How We Verify Game Codes

A code list is only worth reading if the codes work. This page explains how a code gets onto Claude Gaming, how it stays there, and how it leaves. It is the same process on every one of the hundreds of games we track, and the rules do not bend for popular games.

Where codes come from

We start with the sources closest to the developer: the game's official site, its official social media accounts, its Discord server, the news tab inside the game and the notes published with each update. These are the places where a code is born, so a code that an official channel posts is real by definition.

Next come community and aggregator sources. We keep a list of domains that have a good record, and each game also has a short list of the pages we have found most reliable for it. A code from one of those sources is treated as strong evidence when it carries a recent date or is tagged as newly added.

When one source is enough, and when it is not

A code goes live under one of three conditions:

1. An official source posts it. One official source is enough.
2. A trusted source confirms it with a recent date, about ten days or less, or marks it as newly added. One such source is enough.
3. Two or more independent sources agree. This is the rule for everything else.

A code that appears on a single source with no date, or only on a site with a weak record, stays off the page. We would rather list five codes that work than ten that might.

We also refuse to publish a code from memory. Every code on the site is checked against sources fetched during that verification pass. A list that repeats what a game used to give away last year is how a site ends up showing dead codes under a fresh date.

How often we check

Games that have working codes are re-checked on a rolling schedule: our verification sweeps run several times a day, always starting with the games checked longest ago, so each game is revisited every few days. Games with no working codes are re-checked about once a week, because a code can appear at any time. The "Last checked" line on every code page shows the date of the most recent verification, even when nothing changed. That is deliberate: a date that only moved when a code changed would make a quiet but verified page look abandoned.

The site is rebuilt from this data about every two hours, so a verified change reaches the page within hours.

What happens when a code dies

When a code stops working, we move it from the active list to the expired list with a date. We keep the expired list on purpose. Other sites often keep showing a code long after it ended, and the expired list lets you stop hunting. When a game has no working codes at all, the page says so plainly and the table stays empty. We do not fill a page with codes we cannot stand behind, and pages with nothing to offer are kept out of search results until a real code appears.

What we cannot do

We do not redeem every code in the game ourselves, and no list can promise a code will still work in the minute you read it: developers retire codes without warning, and some are limited by level, platform, region or number of uses. Some very large mobile games issue codes that live on the server side and change by the hour, and for those we say we cannot verify a list rather than publish one.

Help us keep it right

Readers are part of the process. If a code we list as working fails, send us the game and the code through the contact page. We re-check it, and reports often arrive before our next scheduled check. If the code was wrong, it moves to the expired list. For general advice, read how to redeem game codes and what to do when a code says invalid, and see our editorial policy for the standards that apply to everything we publish.