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r/steammachine

Steam Machine. The unofficial community for Valve’s new Steam Machine. Discuss specs, performance, SteamOS, hardware, and everything tied to Valve's return to the living room PC concept. Founded 2013 · 76.5K members

76.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 13.4K upvotes, which works out to 175 per 1,000 members.

175peak upvotes per 1,000 members
76.6Kmembers
13.4Kbest post
2Kmost comments
407posts 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.

37% 32% 18%
Image 37% Text 32% Question 18% Gallery 7% Video 4% Link 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.

:snoo_thoughtful: Question 147 :gold: Discussion 93 :SteamMachine: Hardware 46 :snoo_trollface: Meme 40 :SteamMachine: Software 20 Daily Counter 13 :SteamMachine: News 12 :purplegold: Art 11 Accessory 9 :bluepurple: DIY 7

What the ceiling looks like

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

Almost every "steam machine killer"

↑ 13.4K 💬 380 image 2026

Well, the Steam Machine was pretty cool for the 20 minutes that it worked

↑ 12.9K 💬 1.1K image 2026

What if a faceplate wasn't just for looks? I am working on a new kind of faceplate

↑ 9.8K 💬 450 video 2026

steam machine / gamecube size comparison

↑ 7K 💬 297 image 2026

Japan sold out in 3 hours...

↑ 6.7K 💬 1.5K image 2026

I'm the "unscientific testing" guy. Here's my thoughts on the steam machine after 9 days.

↑ 6.5K 💬 514 image 2026

my steam machine just arrived, and it's soaking wet, thanks fed ex!

↑ 5.8K 💬 374 image 2026

Steam Controller recharging with Steam Machine

↑ 5.4K 💬 184 image 2026

Sad Day

↑ 5K 💬 588 image 2026

But I made it

↑ 4.4K 💬 858 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/steammachine, in numbers

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

What is r/steammachine?
r/steammachine ("Steam Machine") describes itself this way: The unofficial community for Valve’s new Steam Machine. Discuss specs, performance, SteamOS, hardware, and everything tied to Valve's return to the living room PC concept. It was founded in 2013 and has 76.5K members.
How many members does r/steammachine have?
r/steammachine has about 76.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 407 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.4K upvotes, which is 175 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/steammachine?
"Almost every "steam machine killer"" reached 13.4K upvotes and 380 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/steammachine.
What subreddits are similar to r/steammachine?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/steammachine?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are image posts and 32% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/steammachine?
Across 407 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 00:00 UTC (4.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 18:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 20:00 UTC (2.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/steammachine?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/steammachine has 2.9K 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/steammachine, 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.