Is the AI game maker market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer■ Neitherbut name searches are up 15% since October 2025
- Visits, year on year, without Replit
- -2.3%
- Visits, last six months
- -24%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +15%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 33 AI game maker sites I track (DataForSEO estimates) and how often people in the US search for them by name (Google Ads). In October 2026 they got about 1.5 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, Replit; without it, visits are about level on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 65% in a year while another lost 85% of its visits. See who grew and who shrank, the visits month by month and the name searches, plus what I expect for November 2026.
AI game maker market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 33 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google1.5Mvisits-14% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US334Ksearches+15% vs October 2025
- Top five sites87.6%of visitsfastest grower: Websim
- Expected in November1.6Mvisitslikely 1.4M to 1.8M
- The AI game maker market is neither growing nor shrinking as of October 2026, but name searches are up 15% since October 2025.
- The 33 AI game maker sites RankDude tracks got 1,543,587 visits from Google search in October 2026, 14% fewer visits than in October 2025, or about the same without Replit.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 334,300 times in September 2026, 15% more searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI game maker sites get 87.6% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI game maker site over the year: Websim, +65% (170K to 280K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Kaedim, -85% (17.6K to 2.7K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 1.6M visits, likely between 1.4M and 1.8M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI game maker sites than a year ago?
Down 14% on a year ago; down 15% on September 2026
Only because of Replit. The 33 tracked AI game maker sites got 1,543,587 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 14% fewer visits than in October 2025, or about the same without Replit, and 15% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was June 2026, with 2,178,080 visits; October 2026 is 29% below it. In the US, visits were 237,836, down 26% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI game maker sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
1.5M
-13.9% on a year ago
United States, this month
238K
-25.7% on a year ago
Two-year high
2.2M
June 2026
US share of visits
15.4%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago. Most of the drop since September 2026 is one site: Replit went from 1,111,013 to 834,220 visits. Without it, the other sites held about level on the month. Name searches rose (+15%) and Google Trends interest in the term held about level (-8%), so the drop looks like a few big sites losing Google rankings, not people losing interest.
2.Are people searching for AI game maker sites by name?
Up 15% on October 2025; 334K name searches a month in the US
Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI game maker sites 334,300 times in September 2026, 15% more searches than in October 2025. Someone who searches a site’s name already knows it, so this is the clearest sign of people coming back on purpose. The term “ai game maker” itself gets about 9,900 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI game maker sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI game maker sites by name, searches a month
Miles explains
Name searches are up while visits are down. People still want these sites; what fell was Google rankings, not interest.
3.Which AI game maker sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 87.6% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 97.3%
The five most-visited AI game maker sites get 87.6% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Websim, from 169,633 to 279,896 visits (+65%). Steepest fall: Kaedim, from 17,557 to 2,696 visits (-85%).
Growing fastest, year on year
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.