About r/truegaming
Community guide
r/truegaming is #713 in our SFW Top 1000 (about 1.5 million subscribers). A recent sample averaged 7.2 posts a day (~100% text). Its public rules include: Discuss Gaming; Be Civil; Specificity, Clarity, and Detail; No Advice; No List Posts.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Civility/anti-harassment rules apply; personal attacks get removed. Match posts to: Discuss Gaming; Be Civil; Specificity, Clarity, and Detail; No Advice.
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. Common flairs include: Academic Survey, Content Warning: [EnterTrigger], Spoilers: [GameName].
Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 0 subscribers (+0.00%). Among the 20 communities on our gaming list it is number 6 by size. It sits just behind r/ChainsawMan (#713) and ahead of r/Mindfulness (#715) in our ranking.
What sets r/truegaming apart
r/truegaming 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. It is a discussion-heavy community, with about 34.7 comments per post over its lifetime versus a Top 100 median of 13.0. Growth has more or less levelled off (0.02% since Oct 29, 2026), which is common for very mature communities.
Subscriber growth
Between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/truegaming went up from 1,487,940 to 1,488,201 subscribers (+261, +0.02%). That is about 24 new members per day. The chart shows 3 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/truegaming this week
This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 7, 2026).
- I asked over 100 people what goes wrong when they play co-op games with their partner.u/NebjWork · Nov 4 · text post
- Genuine question from someone feeling pretty indifferent about GTA 6: What does a $1B to $2B budget actually achieve that a $100M-$200M game can't?u/Ready-Contract-1113 · Nov 4 · text post
- The Soulslike genre is stuck at copying Fromsoftwareu/alanjinqq · Nov 7 · text post
- /r/truegaming casual talku/AutoModerator · Nov 6 · text post
- How much of "game sense" can actually be taught?u/Godfrey_Y · Nov 5 · text post
- Research Study on Swatting and Gamers/Streamersu/swatting-study · Nov 2 · text post
- "Cozy" has become a genre label, and I can't work out what mechanic it actually describesu/Sad-Cauliflower-4605 · Nov 4 · text post
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/truegaming, from 2015 to 2025, ranked by Reddit.
- Watching my casual gamer friend play made me realize how disconnected we are as regular gamers.u/DecompositionLU · Oct 7, 2025 · text post
- This might scratch a few backs the wrong way but i'm just gonna say it: Representation in videogames mattersu/prossnip42 · Nov 17, 2020 · text post
- I’m so done with the “log in every day” mentality that modern online games are pushingFeb 15, 2019 · 2,913 points · 388 comments · text post
- People who think the game price increase to $70 was "long-overdue" aren't seeing the big picture as to why that's not necessarily true.u/Ragnaroknight · Sep 17, 2020 · text post
- Opinion: Gaming is a healthier medium for young adults than Social Media and YouTube in terms of mental healthu/dragon_king14 · Aug 7, 2020 · text post
- Miles Morales should have been DLC for the first gameu/FilmicGamer · Nov 19, 2020 · text post
- Battle passes is the worst gaming trend in recent years.u/WillowMain · Aug 2, 2020 · text post
- Project Zomboid will never be finished, and their censorship of discussion is evidence of it.u/SightWithoutEyes · Oct 31, 2018 · 1,923 points · 381 comments · text post
- [Request] Please stop referring to games by acronyms. Take the extra couple of seconds to type the name out so everyone knows what you are talking about.u/TinierRumble449 · Nov 28, 2015 · 1,777 points · 422 comments · text post
- Feel like games are designed to be addicting rather than engaging.u/Electrical-Ad8505 · Jan 17, 2021 · text post
What r/truegaming talks about
Across 48 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “games”, “gaming”, “game”, “play” and “research”. Other frequent themes are stop, gta, actually, become, work and fun. Recurring phrases include “research study”, “gamers streamers”, “console digitization” and “digitization deadlock”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: Academic Survey (7), Content Warning: [EnterTrigger] (1), Spoilers: [GameName] (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/truegaming gets about 7.2 new posts a day. The public archive holds 74,243 posts and 2,577,443 comments in total, about 34.7 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (12 posts) and the quietest was Tuesday (2). Posting peaks around 13:00 UTC and is lowest around 01:00 UTC.
Rules of r/truegaming
The moderators of r/truegaming list 14 rules. In short:
- Discuss Gaming
- Be Civil
- Specificity, Clarity, and Detail
- No Advice
- No List Posts
- No Inflammatory Posts
- No Self Promotion
- No threads in the style of...
- No Retired Topics
- No Handouts
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/truegaming 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/truegaming have?
r/truegaming has 1,488,201 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #714 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 261 members between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
Is r/truegaming still active?
Yes. r/truegaming gets about 7.2 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 74,243 posts and 2,577,443 comments.
What is the best time to post in r/truegaming?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Friday and the quietest Tuesday, and most posts arrive around 13:00 UTC, with the fewest around 01:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/truegaming?
r/truegaming is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention games, gaming, game, play and research. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/truegaming SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/truegaming as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/truegaming?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/truegaming accepts text posts only. It has 14 posted rules, starting with: “Discuss Gaming”; “Be Civil”; “Specificity, Clarity, and Detail”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/truegaming?
Communities with similar topics include r/pcgaming (4M), r/pcmasterrace (16.4M), r/gaming (47.4M), r/Games (3.6M) and r/nintendo (2.4M).
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/truegaming.