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Quality Gaming Content and Discussion -- /r/Games. The goal of /r/Games is to provide a place for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just with the goal of entertaining viewers. Memes, comics, funny screenshots, arts-and-crafts, etc. will be removed. Founded 2008 · 3.6M members

3.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 43.7K upvotes, which works out to 12 per 1,000 members.

12peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.6Mmembers
43.7Kbest post
7.3Kmost comments
1.1Kposts 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.

40% 37% 22%
Link 40% Video 37% Text 22% Question 1%

The topics it labels

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

Indie Sunday 171 Trailer 161 Announcement 94 Industry News 56 Discussion 32 Preview 26 Release 24 Update 21 Opinion Piece 10 Retrospective 10

What the ceiling looks like

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

John @Totalbiscuit Bain July 8, 1984 - May 24, 2018

↑ 43.7K 💬 2K link 2018

Cyberpunk 2077 has been removed from the Playstation store, all customers will be offered a full refund.

↑ 34K 💬 7.3K link 2020

Gods Unchained: "@Blizzard_Ent just banned @blitzchungHS and stripped his Hearthstone winnings because they care about money more than freedom. We wi…

↑ 27.9K 💬 1.5K link 2019

Belgium says loot boxes are gambling, wants them banned in Europe

↑ 24.9K 💬 2.4K link 2017

Welcoming the Talented Teams and Beloved Game Franchises of Bethesda to Xbox

↑ 22.3K 💬 7.1K link 2020

Bungie Splits With Activision

↑ 21.9K 💬 2.3K link 2019

Halo Master Chief Collection coming to PC (Steam)

↑ 21.2K 💬 2.2K link 2019

/r/Games is closed for April Fool’s. Find out why in here!

↑ 21.1K 💬 1 text 2019

Jason Schreier: "Following the success of Jedi Fallen Order and the failure of Anthem, EA has allowed BioWare to make the next Dragon Age a single-pl…

↑ 20.9K 💬 2.3K link 2021

Titanfall 2 will not have a season pass, all post-launch maps and content will be free

↑ 20.9K 💬 1.7K link 2016

Communities its size

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

r/Games, in numbers

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

What is r/Games?
r/Games ("Quality Gaming Content and Discussion -- /r/Games") describes itself this way: The goal of /r/Games is to provide a place for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just with the goal of entertaining viewers. Memes, comics, funny screenshots, arts-and-crafts, etc. will be removed. It was founded in 2008 and has 3.6M members.
How many members does r/Games have?
r/Games has about 3.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 43.7K upvotes, which is 12 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Games?
"John @Totalbiscuit Bain July 8, 1984 - May 24, 2018" reached 43.7K upvotes and 2K comments in 2018, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Games.
What subreddits are similar to r/Games?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile, r/blackcats, r/awfuleverything.
What kind of posts do best on r/Games?
Of the posts we hold, 40% are link posts and 37% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Games?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 09:00 UTC (15K avg upvotes), Friday at 01:00 UTC (11.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 22:00 UTC (8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/Games?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Games has 18.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Games, 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.