diff --git a/src/server/ServerEnv.ts b/src/server/ServerEnv.ts
index 365f9a325..012d360af 100644
--- a/src/server/ServerEnv.ts
+++ b/src/server/ServerEnv.ts
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ export class ServerEnv {
     return 100;
   }
   static gameCreationRate(): number {
-    return ServerEnv.gameEnv === GameEnv.Dev ? 50 * 1000 : 2 * 60 * 1000;
+    return ServerEnv.gameEnv === GameEnv.Dev ? 5 * 1000 : 2 * 60 * 1000;
   }
   static workerIndex(gameID: GameID): number {
     return simpleHash(gameID) % ServerEnv.numWorkers();