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Reddit's largest audience by far. Beyond the mega-hubs, each platform and title has its own passionate community — and indie developers have real success stories launching games from these forums.
The Number One Gaming forum on the Internet.
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This is a subreddit devoted to the game League of Legends.
The Reddit home for PlayStation 5 - your hub for PS5, Pro & VR2 news and discussion. Consider joining r/PlayStation for your daily dose of memes, screenshots, and other casual disc
The central hub for all news, updates, rumors, and topics relating to the Nintendo Switch & Nintendo Switch 2. We are a fan-run community, not an official Nintendo forum.
This community has been archived - we invite you to continue the conversation over at r/Xbox
A subreddit for members of the Steam Community and fans of steam. Discord: discord.gg/steam
Elden Ring Subreddit featuring everything for the Elden Ring franchise: Games, Offshoots & Screen Adaptations. Elden Ring began as an action RPG in which Players must explore and f
PC Gaming: Reddit's top community for PC news and discussion.
The goal of /r/Games is to provide a place for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discu
The subreddit covers various game development aspects, including programming, design, writing, art, game jams, postmortems, and marketing. It serves as a hub for game creators to d
Have you ever wanted to buy a game on Steam but didn't know if it was good? Have you ever had just enough money for an indie game but didn't know whether it was worth buying? Have
/r/truegaming is a subreddit dedicated to meaningful, insightful, and high-quality discussion on all topics gaming.
A gaming sub free from the news, hype and drama that surround current releases, catering instead to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's pr
r/gamingnews is your trusted source for news and discussions related to games and gaming.
Your community for discussion of almost anything related to video games - community content, guides, news, memes, walkthroughs and more.
The biggest subreddit for leaks and rumours in the gaming community, for all games across all systems.
A place for indie games
A community for vintage gaming, celebrating 2d games and early 3d games
/r/FreeGameFindings is based around finding free game promotions all over the place! Be it Steam, Epic, Origin, Ubisoft Connect, GOG, Xbox, Playstation, or Nintendo Consoles, we wi
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 commu
We analyzed the published rules of these 22 communities: 2 prohibit self-promotion outright, 18 allow it only under conditions (designated threads, participation ratios, or moderator approval). The biggest audience is r/gaming with 47.2M members; note that r/truegaming is among those that explicitly ban promotional posts. Always open a community's rules link before posting — it takes a minute and protects your account.
Gaming Reddit is the platform's biggest audience and its most fragmented: the mega-hubs (r/gaming, r/pcgaming) drive volume, but the real engagement lives in title-specific communities where players spend years. Each game's subreddit develops its own dialect, running jokes, and tolerance levels — what's beloved in r/EldenRing would be spam in r/Games, which enforces strict discussion-quality standards.
For indie developers, gaming subreddits are a proven launch channel with famous success stories, but the rules are tight: r/IndieGaming and r/gamedev welcome dev posts, while general communities require reading each promo policy carefully. The content that works is process, not product — development GIFs, honest postmortems, "my game flopped and here's why" threads. Screenshot Saturday threads across gaming communities exist specifically for this.
r/IndieGaming for polished showcases, r/gamedev for development discussion and postmortems, r/playmygame for feedback exchanges, and Screenshot Saturday threads across communities for work-in-progress. Development GIFs consistently outperform trailers. Once you have a community around a genre (roguelikes, metroidvanias), its dedicated subreddit is warmer than any mega-hub.
r/gaming is the massive default community — memes, screenshots, broad appeal, 40M+ members. r/Games deliberately positions itself as the serious alternative: no memes, no image macros, moderated for substantive discussion of news and analysis. Post entertainment to r/gaming, discussion to r/Games, and never the same thing to both.
r/gaming is the largest community in this niche with 47.2M members. The Number One Gaming forum on the Internet.
It depends on the community: of the 22 communities in this niche, 2 ban self-promotion entirely and 18 allow it only under specific conditions such as designated threads or participation requirements. Check the policy badge on each community's page here, then read the full rules on Reddit before posting.
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