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r/gaming

r/gaming is one of the ten biggest safe-for-work communities on Reddit, ranked #5 on SubMouse with 47,362,363 subscribers and about 64 new posts a day.

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Rank (SFW)#5
Subscribers47.4M
Growth since Oct 19+12.7K
Posts per day64
Posts all time7M
CreatedSep 2007
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About r/gaming

In its own words:

The Number One Gaming forum on the Internet.

The community was created on Sep 17, 2007, which makes it 19 years old. Since Oct 19, 2026, it has gained 12,694 subscribers (+0.03%). Among the 15 communities on our gaming list it is the largest. It sits just behind r/worldnews (#4) and ahead of r/todayilearned (#6) in our ranking.

Subscriber growth

47.36M47.31MSep 19Oct 29, 2026

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, r/gaming went up from 47,309,843 to 47,362,363 subscribers (+52.5K, +0.11%). That is about 1,313 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (8 so far), so it gets longer every week.

Top posts on r/gaming this week

This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Oct 29, 2026).

  1. My VAC ban for Counter Strike is now the same age I was when I got it (Over 19 years)u/evilleppy87 · Oct 24 · image
  2. Zelda painting - acrylics on canvasu/ArtbyAEB · Oct 25 · image
  3. Fuck this forced advertisement right off. This is not ok.u/Spartan17492 · Oct 23 · image
  4. Canadian politician calls on government to help BioWare employees buy the studio and run it themselvesu/Chrristoaivalis · Oct 22 · link
  5. Within 3 years (2007-2009), BioWare made two of the best narrative-driven Sci-Fi and fantasy games of all timeu/jdawg1018 · Oct 25 · image
  6. Mass Effect Fans Call for EA Boycott as Petition to Save BioWare's Canceled Game Garners More than 75,000 Signaturesu/Force_Hammer · Oct 23 · link
  7. 'You're Insane to Think I Lost Friends Over Reporting a Bug I Found Myself' — PS5 Hacker Sparks Homebrew Community Backlash After Using AI to Cash in on $50,000 Sony Bountyu/RenatsMC · Oct 27 · link
  8. IT HAS BEEN 25 mins 😭😭u/EyePsychological1080 · Oct 29 · image
  9. Valve responds to Steam devs getting extortion emails threatening AI clones of their gamesu/JohnGalactusX · Oct 28 · link
  10. [Outer Wilds] You couldn't torture it out of meu/Beneficial_Ball9893 · Oct 24 · image

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/gaming, from 2017 to 2025, ranked by Reddit.

  1. Take your time, you got thisu/SrGrafo · Jul 13, 2019 · 198,102 points · 3,204 comments · image
  2. My parents (late 70s) got me a ps5 controller for Christmas. I do not own a playstation 5...u/Yabba_Dabbs · Dec 25, 2020 · image
  3. I got off the horse by accident right before a cutscene in red deadu/springfart · Dec 1, 2018 · 205,621 points · 2,157 comments · video
  4. boy gameru/velabas · Mar 1, 2021 · image
  5. Minesweeper 99 x 99, 1500 mines. Took me about 2.5 hours to finish, nerve-wracking. No one might care, but just wanted to share this.u/OtterDeity · Feb 14, 2022 · 200,573 points · 2,767 comments · image
  6. The perfect cosplay doesn’t ex...u/MisterT12 · May 2, 2020 · image
  7. 'Play until we lose'u/Shitty_Watercolour · Dec 9, 2018 · 180,938 points · 1,438 comments · image
  8. Can we please boycott Star Wars battlefront 2u/TheMadPuma · Nov 13, 2017 · 173,523 points · 12,407 comments · text post
  9. How the Grim Reaper sends good boys to the afterlife in The Sims 3u/CanYouPetTheDog · May 10, 2022 · 173,916 points · 2,748 comments · video
  10. As a teen in the 80s, my conservative God-fearing family wouldn't let me own Dungeons & Dragons. Thirty years later, my son and I are starting our D & D journey.u/Oven_Kid · Dec 25, 2017 · 166,121 points · 5,072 comments · image

What r/gaming talks about

Across 455 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “game”, “games”, “bioware”, “steam” and “video”. Other frequent themes are effect, xbox, mass, trailer, switch and selling. Recurring phrases include “mass effect”, “video game”, “phantom blade” and “blade zero”. By format, 35% are text posts, 30% are links and 25% are images.

  • game 75
  • games 61
  • bioware 47
  • steam 20
  • video 19
  • effect 18
  • xbox 18
  • mass 17
  • trailer 13
  • switch 11
  • selling 10
  • playstation 10
  • september 10
  • play 9
  • wolverine 9
  • ps5 9
  • movie 9
  • zero 9

Popular post flairs: REMOVED: Rule 6 (4), REMOVED: Repost (4), [Rumor] (2), REMOVED: Rule 2 (2), [already in review thread] (1), Weekly Friends Thread (1).

Activity and best time to post

r/gaming gets about 64 new posts a day. The public archive holds 6,965,977 posts and 103,562,933 comments in total, about 14.9 comments per post.

Text posts 35%Links 30%Images 25%Videos 10%

Rules of r/gaming

The moderators of r/gaming list 10 rules. In short:

  1. Not directly gaming related or generic meme template
  2. Posting guidelines, bandwagons, brigades, direct reply posts.
  3. Piracy
  4. Unmarked spoiler / Unmarked NSFW.
  5. No Giveaways / Trades / Contests / Items for sale / Donation requests / Crypto anything
  6. Not original source / Website screenshot
  7. Spam / Excessive self-promotion
  8. Discussion prompts must be posted as self/text posts
  9. Bigotry / Incivility / Toxicity
  10. AMA related rule.

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/gaming 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 big is r/gaming?

r/gaming has 47,362,363 subscribers (Oct 29, 2026), which makes it the #5 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 52,520 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026.

When was r/gaming created?

r/gaming was created on Sep 17, 2007, so it has been around for 19 years.

Is r/gaming still active?

Yes. r/gaming gets about 64 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 6,965,977 posts and 103,562,933 comments. In a sample of 455 recent posts we counted 376 different authors.

What kind of posts are on r/gaming?

The community describes itself as: “The Number One Gaming forum on the Internet.” Recent post titles often mention game, games, bioware, steam and video. Most posts are text posts (35%).

Is r/gaming SFW?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/gaming as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

What are the rules of r/gaming?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/gaming accepts both text and link posts, with images enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Not directly gaming related or generic meme template”; “Posting guidelines, bandwagons, brigades, direct reply posts.”; “Piracy”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

What subreddits are similar to r/gaming?

Communities with similar topics include r/pcmasterrace (16.4M), r/pcgaming (4M), r/nintendo (2.4M), r/Games (3.6M) and r/food (24.6M).

Stats from public data (data updated Oct 29, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Oct 29, 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/gaming.

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