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A place for indie games Founded 2009 · 525.2K members

529.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 15.7K upvotes, which works out to 30 per 1,000 members.

30peak upvotes per 1,000 members
529.5Kmembers
15.7Kbest post
1.6Kmost comments
412posts 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.

61% 18%
Video 61% Image 18% Text 7% Link 7% Gallery 6% Question 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Do you think my game's (virtual surfing) water graphics look realistic?

↑ 15.7K 💬 858 video 2025

All the most bizarre reloads we've created for our game

↑ 15.1K 💬 247 video 2025

As The Developer, How Do I Even Respond To That?!

↑ 13.5K 💬 665 image 2025

Why does the audio slider in every game work like this...

↑ 13.5K 💬 168 image 2025

My game got an article on PCGamer and I'm stoked!

↑ 12.8K 💬 159 image 2025

Would You Play a game like this?

↑ 12.8K 💬 772 video 2025

Level Design Is My Passion

↑ 10.9K 💬 503 video 2026

Cool Game Devs

↑ 10K 💬 56 image 2025

Last year, miHoYo copied my solo-dev puzzle game in Zenless Zone Zero. Some people are now mistaking my game as the clone.

↑ 10K 💬 529 video 2026

I Made a Game About Building Realistic Dioramas – Outside the Blocks! (Free Demo Available!)

↑ 9.5K 💬 468 video 2025

Communities its size

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

r/IndieGaming, in numbers

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

What is r/IndieGaming?
r/IndieGaming describes itself this way: A place for indie games. It was founded in 2009 and has 525.2K members.
How many members does r/IndieGaming have?
r/IndieGaming has about 529.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 412 of its posts; the biggest reached 15.7K upvotes, which is 30 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/IndieGaming?
"Do you think my game's (virtual surfing) water graphics look realistic?" reached 15.7K upvotes and 858 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/IndieGaming.
What subreddits are similar to r/IndieGaming?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow.
What kind of posts do best on r/IndieGaming?
Of the posts we hold, 61% are video posts and 18% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/IndieGaming?
Across 412 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 15:00 UTC (5.8K avg upvotes), Saturday at 10:00 UTC (5.5K avg upvotes), Monday at 18:00 UTC (4.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/IndieGaming?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/IndieGaming has 7.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 309 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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