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PC Gaming. PC Gaming: Reddit's top community for PC news and discussion. Founded 2008 · 4M members

4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 49.5K upvotes, which works out to 12 per 1,000 members.

12peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4Mmembers
49.5Kbest post
24.3Kmost comments
2.5Kposts 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% 23% 9%
Link 61% Video 23% Text 9% Image 5% Question 2%

The topics it labels

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

Video 278 Locked 2 [Locked] 1 UPDATE 6/9 1 Epic Games - False - Dev response inside 1 Epic Games - Still Available on Steam until late 2019 1 Delayed to Dec 10th 1 [It has reopened] 1 [Satire] 1 And GOG 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Youtuber makes video exposing broken game mechanics, gets globally banned by game developers (Studio Wildcard)

↑ 49.5K 💬 2.4K text 2019

Bethesda is retiring their Bethesda Launcher in favour of Steam

↑ 47.7K 💬 2.5K link 2022

As of today /r/pcgaming has added x.com to the domain blacklist.

↑ 47K 💬 1.3K text 2025

The Player Count for Marvel’s Avengers Has Dropped 96% Since Launching 2 Months Ago on Steam

↑ 44.7K 💬 3.2K link 2020

The FCC is about to ruin PC gaming for everyone. We need to act now.

↑ 40.7K 💬 2.6K text 2017

NFT sales ‘have declined 92% since their peak’

↑ 38.3K 💬 3.1K link 2022

As a Chinese player, I feel obliged to explain why most hackers are from China

↑ 38.2K 💬 1.5K text 2019

Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed poor load times, official update coming

↑ 37.8K 💬 1.7K link 2021

Reddit API Changes, Subreddit Blackout & Why It Matters To You

↑ 36.9K 💬 1.3K text 2023

CDPR: Cyberpunk 2077 Has No Pre-Order Bonus So That Everyone Can Get The “Same Content”

↑ 36.6K 💬 1.1K link 2019

Communities its size

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

r/pcgaming, in numbers

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

What is r/pcgaming?
r/pcgaming ("PC Gaming") describes itself this way: PC Gaming: Reddit's top community for PC news and discussion. It was founded in 2008 and has 4M members.
How many members does r/pcgaming have?
r/pcgaming has about 4M members. ViralHunt has tracked 2.5K of its posts; the biggest reached 49.5K upvotes, which is 12 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/pcgaming?
"Youtuber makes video exposing broken game mechanics, gets globally banned by game developers (Studio Wildcard)" reached 49.5K upvotes and 2.4K comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/pcgaming.
What subreddits are similar to r/pcgaming?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/doordash, r/dogpictures, r/youngpeopleyoutube.
What kind of posts do best on r/pcgaming?
Of the posts we hold, 61% are link posts and 23% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/pcgaming?
Across 2.5K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 11:00 UTC (12.3K avg upvotes), Sunday at 21:00 UTC (10.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 21:00 UTC (9.4K 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/pcgaming?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/pcgaming has 32.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 409 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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