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Darkest Dungeon: Terror and Madness. Welcome to /r/darkestdungeon, the community dedicated to all things related to the critically acclaimed video game, Darkest Dungeon! Founded 2014 · 256.3K members

257.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 28.4K upvotes, which works out to 110 per 1,000 members.

110peak upvotes per 1,000 members
257.1Kmembers
28.4Kbest post
723most comments
421posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

45% 21% 19% 9%
Image 45% Text 21% Question 19% Gallery 9% Video 5%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Meme 42 [DD 1] Question 42 [DD 1] Meme 37 [DD 1] Discussion 36 OC Fan Art 27 [DD 1] Modding 26 [DD 2] Discussion 24 Fan Art 20 [DD 1] Issue/Bug 17 [DD 2] Question 13

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Many fall in the face of slop; but not these ones

↑ 28.4K 💬 511 image 2026

Wayne June, our beloved Ancestor has passed away

↑ 14.9K 💬 523 image 2025

Not every heritage is good...

↑ 13.4K 💬 116 image 2026

It's so cool how different regions have different thumbnails for their lofi channels

↑ 12.7K 💬 75 image 2021

Homer's resolve is Tested

↑ 11.2K 💬 54 image 2020

Medic!

↑ 10.9K 💬 154 image 2020

I drew another meme

↑ 10.9K 💬 42 image 2024

Gallows Humor

↑ 10.9K 💬 107 image 2020

....... cast aside like a spent torch.

↑ 10.2K 💬 161 image 2019

Goddammit Reynauld pull yourself together

↑ 10K 💬 42 image 2019

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/darkestdungeon, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/darkestdungeon?
r/darkestdungeon ("Darkest Dungeon: Terror and Madness") describes itself this way: Welcome to /r/darkestdungeon, the community dedicated to all things related to the critically acclaimed video game, Darkest Dungeon. It was founded in 2014 and has 256.3K members.
How many members does r/darkestdungeon have?
r/darkestdungeon has about 257.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 421 of its posts; the biggest reached 28.4K upvotes, which is 110 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/darkestdungeon?
"Many fall in the face of slop; but not these ones" reached 28.4K upvotes and 511 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/darkestdungeon.
What subreddits are similar to r/darkestdungeon?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/darkestdungeon?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are image posts and 21% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/darkestdungeon?
Across 421 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 11:00 UTC (8K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 08:00 UTC (7.4K avg upvotes), Monday at 17:00 UTC (7.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/darkestdungeon?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/darkestdungeon has 8.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 75 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/darkestdungeon, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.