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This is the place for indie devs and gamers to share anything, be it game development, their favorite games or just cool images, GIFs and music from an indie game in a casual community-run environment. If you're an indie gamer, this place welcomes you too! After all, every gamer is a potential indie developer! Founded 2011 · 447.8K members

455.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 37K upvotes, which works out to 81 per 1,000 members.

81peak upvotes per 1,000 members
455.3Kmembers
37Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
415posts 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.

50% 27% 8%
Video 50% Image 27% Gallery 8% Text 7% Link 5% Question 3%

The topics it labels

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

Feedback? 72 Video 52 Discussion 35 Image 23 Upcoming! 17 New Game! 10 Artist looking for Indies! 10 GIF 8 Free Game! 8 Informative 4

What the ceiling looks like

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

Taking sandbox game quite literally with Sandcastle

↑ 37K 💬 895 video 2026

First time showing gameplay of my mobile game to someone besides my friends. What do you think?

↑ 22.4K 💬 1.4K video 2025

We're sick of platformers so we made one where you get to be the bad guy

↑ 16.8K 💬 563 video 2026

A Camera Game - Looking For Playtesters : D

↑ 16.6K 💬 631 video 2025

This pisses me off

↑ 14.7K 💬 1.3K image 2025

We wanted to add "fast travel" to our game, but keep it contextual and maintain a sense of place. So we took a very literal approach:

↑ 13.6K 💬 639 video 2024

I improved my crash site based on feedback

↑ 13.1K 💬 316 image 2026

I got tired of manually animating something in my game so I made this...

↑ 12.5K 💬 190 video 2025

I added hand-tracking to my MR Rollercoaster game, CoasterMania! What you think?

↑ 12.2K 💬 311 video 2026

It appears someone other than us 4 devs has played our game

↑ 11.9K 💬 136 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/IndieDev, in numbers

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

What is r/IndieDev?
r/IndieDev describes itself this way: This is the place for indie devs and gamers to share anything, be it game development, their favorite games or just cool images, GIFs and music from an indie game in a casual community-run environment. If you're an indie gamer, this place welcomes you too! After all, every gamer is a potential indie developer. It was founded in 2011 and has 447.8K members.
How many members does r/IndieDev have?
r/IndieDev has about 455.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 415 of its posts; the biggest reached 37K upvotes, which is 81 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/IndieDev?
"Taking sandbox game quite literally with Sandcastle" reached 37K upvotes and 895 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/IndieDev.
What subreddits are similar to r/IndieDev?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/BlueskySkeets, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot.
What kind of posts do best on r/IndieDev?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are video posts and 27% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/IndieDev?
Across 415 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 13:00 UTC (10K avg upvotes), Friday at 10:00 UTC (8.1K avg upvotes), Saturday at 11:00 UTC (7.4K 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/IndieDev?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/IndieDev has 9.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 305 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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