About r/ShouldIbuythisgame
In its own words:
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 you ever asked yourself, "Should I buy this game?"
Community guide
r/ShouldIbuythisgame (#700, about 1.5 million subscribers) — 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 you ever asked yourself, "Should I… A recent sample averaged 19 posts a day (~100% text). Its public rules include: Help Us Help You; No Unreleased Content; Touchy Subjects, Appeals; No Unmarked Spoilers; No Trading.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Spoiler tags matter for fresh releases, endings, or results. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own channel or shop.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Err on spoiler tags. Common flairs include: [PC]:pc:, [PS5]:playstation:, [Switch]:switch:, [PC].
The community was created on Jun 24, 2012, which makes it 14 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 580 subscribers (+0.04%). It sits just behind r/Bossfight (#699) and ahead of r/IWantToLearn (#701) in our ranking.
What sets r/ShouldIbuythisgame apart
r/ShouldIbuythisgame is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 100% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/ShouldIbuythisgame climbed from 1,519,163 to 1,523,983 subscribers (+4.8K, +0.32%). That is about 95 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/ShouldIbuythisgame this week
The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Nov 7, 2026).
- Control Resonant or Phantom Blade 0u/renai01 · Nov 3 · text post
- Should I buy Crimson Desert, Onimusha, or Phantom Blade Zero?u/Vogrium_21 · Nov 5 · text post
- Should I buy Dragons Dogma 2 or Crimson Desert?u/SomeBluntCanuck · Nov 1 · text post
- Onimusha Way of the Sword or Phantom Blade?u/Chasehud · Nov 1 · text post
- Is Dragon Dogma 2 worth buying?u/RyuuInch9 · Nov 1 · text post
- Mortal Shell 2, Khazan, or Phantom Blade Zerou/agaraggromogh · Nov 3 · text post
- Is Dragon Dogma 2 Dark Arisen Edition worth 40 dollarsu/cinewallflower · Nov 7 · text post
- Gray Zone Warfare or Incursion Red River?u/bcmangas · Nov 2 · text post
- Should I get Onimusha or Phantom Blade 0?u/Vegetable-Machine-17 · Nov 6 · text post
- Should i buy a Nintendo Switch 2 for these 3 games?u/FromChicago808 · Nov 7 · text post
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/ShouldIbuythisgame, from 2019 to 2021, ranked by Reddit.
- Why does this sub exist? Somebody asked if they should buy a game, I said that I personally find it boring, so people downvoted me. What the fuck?u/YouTubeLeizy · Jul 11, 2020 · text post
- Can I play World War Z without having played World War A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X and Y before?Mar 26, 2020 · 6,913 points · 279 comments · text post
- You should NOT buy games on Steam today as the 2020 Steam Summer sale starts tomorrow.u/backtosnack · Jun 24, 2020 · text post
- This subreddit should enable polls.u/MS211200 · Jul 12, 2020 · text post
- Don't buy Steam games until Tomorrow 18:00 GMT because of the expected annual Winter Sale!Dec 21, 2020 · text post
- PSA: You should NOT buy any game on Steam until tomorrow!u/spArk_k · Jan 23, 2020 · 3,797 points · 192 comments · text post
- Stop saying "buy both games".u/potato_nugget1 · Apr 26, 2020 · 3,027 points · 186 comments · text post
- What is even the point of this subreddit?u/filipanton · Dec 24, 2019 · 3,366 points · 349 comments · text post
- People who recommend buying stocks will be removed. This is not WSB. Do not clutter our sub.u/AmazingSully · Jan 28, 2021 · text post
- Hold off on buying Steam games!!!u/RY-en · Nov 25, 2020 · text post
What r/ShouldIbuythisgame talks about
Across 118 recent posts (Oct 30–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “buy”, “phantom”, “blade”, “games” and “zero”. Other frequent themes are sib, play, game, black, switch and worth. Recurring phrases include “phantom blade”, “blade zero”, “control resonant” and “elden ring”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: [PC] :pc: (45), [PS5] :playstation: (21), [Switch] :switch: (9), [PC] (8), [Xbox Series X] :xbox: (6), [PS4] (2).
Activity and best time to post
r/ShouldIbuythisgame gets about 19 new posts a day. The public archive holds 298,699 posts and 3,048,138 comments in total, about 10.2 comments per post.
Rules of r/ShouldIbuythisgame
The moderators of r/ShouldIbuythisgame list 12 rules. In short:
- Help Us Help You
- No Unreleased Content
- Touchy Subjects, Appeals
- No Unmarked Spoilers
- No Trading
- Keep It Legal
- No spam
- No Key Resellers
- Do not try to profit from our community
- Be Cool
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/ShouldIbuythisgame and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/ShouldIbuythisgame have?
r/ShouldIbuythisgame has 1,523,983 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #700 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 4,820 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
How old is r/ShouldIbuythisgame?
r/ShouldIbuythisgame was created on Jun 24, 2012, so it has been around for 14 years.
How active is r/ShouldIbuythisgame?
Moderately: r/ShouldIbuythisgame gets about 19 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 298,699 posts and 3,048,138 comments. In a sample of 118 recent posts we counted 113 different authors.
What is r/ShouldIbuythisgame about?
The community describes itself as: “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 you ever asked yourself, "Should I buy …” Recent post titles often mention buy, phantom, blade, games and zero. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/ShouldIbuythisgame safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/ShouldIbuythisgame as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/ShouldIbuythisgame?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/ShouldIbuythisgame accepts text posts only, with galleries enabled. It has 12 posted rules, starting with: “Help Us Help You”; “No Unreleased Content”; “Touchy Subjects, Appeals”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/ShouldIbuythisgame?
Communities with similar topics include r/YouShouldKnow (5.6M), r/DidntKnowIWantedThat (1.3M), r/SteamDeck (1.2M), r/Steam (5.4M) and r/pennystocks (2.3M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/ShouldIbuythisgame.