Slow Cook is SlowDen's free, ongoing browser-game challenge: five creative prompts are on the menu at once, you get about a month to build a small finished game for any one of them, and you submit a link to it to be played. It is free to enter and open to everyone — any engine, solo or team, no experience required. This round closes 1 October 2026. Cook up a game. No rush.
🗓️ This round closes: 1 October 2026
🏆 If selected: a homepage feature plus a shoutout across SlowDen's socials · 👥 Open to everyone · 👀 Every entry is read by a person
Anyone who wants to finish something. These prompts ask for a complete small game rather than a weekend experiment — ten rooms, three bosses, twenty levels — so give yourself the month. You do not need to be experienced, but you should expect to build a real, finished thing. Any engine, any team size, solo is fine.
Finishing is the hard part, not starting. If you have abandoned projects behind you, read how to finish a game in one month before you pick a prompt — it is written for exactly the month-long scope these challenges ask for.
Selected games get a homepage feature on SlowDen plus a social shoutout. That's it — no guaranteed traffic, downloads, revenue or cash prizes, and being selected is never guaranteed. Slow Cook is about making something and getting it seen.
Yes. Slow Cook is free and open to everyone. You submit a link to your own hosted game — there is nothing to pay and no entry fee at any point.
About one month per round. This round closes 1 October 2026, and that date is printed at the top of this page so it is always the real one rather than a stale promise.
Any engine. The only requirement is that the finished game runs in a browser. You can work solo or as a team, and you do not need to be experienced.
Yes. Five prompts are on the menu at once. Pick any one you like, or build for more than one — nothing stops you entering several.
Through the Slow Cook entry form on the submission page. You send a link to your game hosted wherever you already host it — itch.io, Netlify, GitHub Pages and so on — rather than uploading files to SlowDen.
A feature on the SlowDen homepage plus a shoutout across SlowDen’s social accounts. That is the whole reward. There is no cash prize and no guaranteed traffic, downloads or revenue, and being selected is never guaranteed.
Your game is listed as soon as you send it. A person still plays every entry when deciding which ones get featured, and there is no scoring bot deciding that for them.
No. Slow Cook is optional. If you already have a finished browser game that has nothing to do with any prompt, send it through the general game submission form instead — it gets the same review by a person.
You do not have to enter Slow Cook to be on SlowDen. If you already have a finished browser game — made whenever, for whatever reason — send it through the general game submission form instead. Same review by a person, no challenge required.
Questions, or no form? Email slowden.official@gmail.com — a real person reads it.