How ranking works
Two inputs decide where a game sits: what the dev paid and how many real players back it.
Paste a game link. Pick a dollar amount. Pay through Stripe. Your game appears on the leaderboard, ranked by total bid. No account. No approval.
We auto-fetch your title, image, genre, and description from the link. Steam, Epic, itch.io, or any game URL works.
Your listing goes live within seconds of payment confirmation.
Bids stack
Pay $3 today, add $2 next week. Your ranking is based on $5. Submit the same URL again to raise your bid. Minimum is $1. No maximum. Nobody else can hijack your listing by paying on your URL.
Community support pushes a game higher than its bid alone. A $10 game with 40 verified owners outranks a $10 game with zero. This is what makes outlvl different from every other pay-to-rank board.
Likes
Anyone can like a game once per day. No login required. Likes are social proof only. They don't touch the ranking formula.
Steam Boost
Connect your Steam account. Hit "Boost" on any game in your library. We verify ownership through the Steam API, pull your playtime and achievement data. Verified owners are the signal that actually moves rank.
The formula
effective = (bid + backers + hours) × achievements20 owners = $5.00 added to your effective score
Capped at 100h per person. A player with 60h adds $3.00
Based on average completion across all verified owners
Achievement tiers
Worked example
A game with a $10 bid, 8 verified owners, 45 total play hours, and 60% average achievements:
That $10 bid performs like $17.10 on the board. A competitor needs to pass $17.10 (with no boosts) to outrank it.