Video Games. Your community for discussion of almost anything related to video games - community content, guides, news, memes, walkthroughs and many more!!. Founded 2008 · 700.4K members
710.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached
72.5K upvotes, which works out to
102 per 1,000 members.
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.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/videogames?
r/videogames ("Video Games") describes itself this way: Your community for discussion of almost anything related to video games - community content, guides, news, memes, walkthroughs and many more. It was founded in 2008 and has 700.4K members.
How many members does r/videogames have?
r/videogames has about 710.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.5K of its posts; the biggest reached 72.5K upvotes, which is 102 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/videogames?
"Do you???" reached 72.5K upvotes and 979 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/videogames.
What subreddits are similar to r/videogames?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/scotus.
What kind of posts do best on r/videogames?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are image posts and 15% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/videogames?
Across 1.5K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 23:00 UTC (16.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 19:00 UTC (13K avg upvotes), Thursday at 19:00 UTC (13K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/videogames?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/videogames has 32.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 364 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/videogames, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.