Codes policy

Game code pages are the least trustworthy content on the internet. Most are assembled by copying other code pages, which is why they agree with each other and why so many of them list codes that stopped working weeks ago.

What “verified” means here

It means one specific thing: a person at PhonePlayers entered that code into that game on a real account, it worked, and they recorded the date they did it. Nothing else earns the word.

The three statuses

• Active — redeemed successfully by us, on the date shown next to it.
• Expired — it stopped working, and we know roughly when. Expired codes stay on the page so you can tell an old code from a missing one.
• Unverified — we have seen it reported somewhere but have not redeemed it ourselves. We would rather show you that honestly than promote it to active.

Where codes come from

• Official developer and publisher channels — announcements, streams, newsletters and social accounts.
• In-game announcements.
• Reader reports, which are treated as leads to check rather than as codes to publish.

We do not take codes from other code aggregators. That is the mechanism by which a dead code circulates for months.

Checking and dates

Every code list shows the date a person last worked through the whole list, and whether that check found anything new. Both are shown because a check that found nothing is still useful information — it tells you the page is maintained.

A check that finds no material change does not update the article's published or updated date. Only the check date moves.

Regions and limits

Codes are frequently restricted by region, limited to one use per account, and short-lived — some last hours. A code that fails for you may simply not be valid where you are. Where we know of a restriction, it is listed next to the code.

Telling us a code has stopped working

Every code list has a link to the corrections page. Reports go into the next check for that game, and if we confirm the failure we mark the code expired with the date. A page that never marks anything expired is a page nobody is maintaining.