Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Newgrounds

The 20 closest user-generated content community alternatives to Newgrounds, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Newgrounds? The closest matches are GameBanana, 9GAG and Reddit. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Newgrounds

Newgrounds newgrounds.com

NG Guard

Wikidata: American entertainment and social media website

Top 10K · #4,698 English 3 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Newgrounds

Summary by Claude

Newgrounds is a website where users upload and share browser games, animations, music and artwork, with community voting, reviews and forums.

Who it’s for
Independent game developers, animators, artists, musicians and their fans
Business model
Advertising and supporter subscriptions

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Newgrounds’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

InvenMyspaceYouTubeProduct HuntDeviantArtgamespot.comSlashdotReddit9GAGGameBanana

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Newgrounds

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Newgrounds, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English

We can’t read newgrounds.com’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    GameBanana gamebanana.com Top 10K English

    GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001

    Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games

  2. 02
    9GAG 9gag.com Top 10K English

    9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News

    Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.

  3. 03
    Reddit reddit.com Top 1K

    American social news aggregation website and discussion portal

  4. 04
    Slashdot slashdot.org Top 10K English

    Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software

    Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.

  5. 05
    Bahamut Gamer's Community gamer.com.tw Top 10K Chinese

    巴哈姆特電玩資訊站 - 系統異常回報

    Taiwanese ACG Internet forum

  6. 06
    gamespot.com Top 10K English

    video game website

  7. 07
    4chan 4chan.org Top 10K

    Verification Required

    English-language imageboard website

  8. 08
    Polygon polygon.com Top 10K English

    Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More

    Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.

  9. 09
    DeviantArt deviantart.com Top 1K English

    DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community

    DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.

  10. 10
    Product Hunt producthunt.com Top 10K English

    product discovery website

  11. 11
    GameRant gamerant.com Top 10K English

    GameRant - Breaking News, Reviews & Everything Else in the World of Video Games

    GameRant delivers content written by gamers for gamers with an emphasis on news, reviews, unique features, and interviews.

  12. 12
    YouTube youtube.com Top 100 English

    YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

  13. 13
    Myspace myspace.com Top 1K

    Featured Content on Myspace

    Featured Content on Myspace

  14. 14
    Genius genius.com Top 1K English

    Genius

    American digital media company

  15. 15
    CrazyGames crazygames.com Top 10K English

    Free Online Games on CrazyGames | Play Now!

    Play free online games at CrazyGames, the best place to play high-quality browser games. We add new games every day. Have fun!

  16. 16
    Inven inven.co.kr Top 10K

    South Korean webzine

  17. 17
    playground.ru Top 10K Russian

    PlayGround.ru - Компьютерные игры, патчи, моды, прохождение игр, коды, читы, трейнеры, скачать игры

    PlayGround.ru - Компьютерные игры, патчи, моды, прохождение игр, коды, читы, трейнеры, скачать игры

  18. 18
    Fur Affinity furaffinity.net Top 10K English

    Index -- Fur Affinity [dot] net

    Fur Affinity | For all things fluff, scaled, and feathered!

  19. 19
    gamewith.jp Top 10K Japanese

    ゲームウィズ - 日本最大級のゲームレビュー・攻略サイト

    日本最大級のゲーム総合情報サイト。Switch2・Switch・PS5・PS4・PC・スマホアプリのおすすめゲームや新作ゲームのランキング、評価、レビュー、ゲーム攻略の最新情報を毎日お届け。ゲーム探しはゲームウィズ!

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    ScreenRant screenrant.com Top 10K English

    ScreenRant: Movie News, Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, TV News

    ScreenRant debuted in 2003 and has grown into the largest source of breaking entertainment news & original features for movies, TV, comics, + more!

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to newgrounds.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Newgrounds uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Newgrounds is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

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Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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