Adrian M.

I joined Kongregate in 2008 and was happy with it for many years. The site featured thousands of games and with the badges and other incentives, it encouraged people to stay active and try games they might not have played otherwise. I also had good experiences with purchases - I played Dawn of the Dragons with some payments for several years until the game folded. However, this all changed in 2020 when most important features of the site, including many chats and the majority of message boards were shut down. Features were discontinued with little or no warning and it got worse in January 2021 when the end of Flash hit. Unlike competing sites, Kongregate could not come up with a viable Flash alternative and Flash games had to be removed from the Badge of the Day feature (almost the last thing that kept many people interested), leaving only a small number of games in rotation for that feature with entire genres unrepresented. It's effectively a dead site and while I liked the community far more than those of Armor or Newgrounds, the sad reality is that this community is not eradicated. This is a prime example of how to run a site into the ground and I'd be surprised if it stays around.