r/Games
Quality Gaming Content and Discussion -- /r/Games
Founded May 2008 · Public — anyone can post
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 discussion, not just with the goal of entertaining viewers. Memes, comics, funny screenshots, arts-and-crafts, etc. will be removed.
Members
3,576,492
3.6M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.2%
+5.6K members · ≈24d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Sep 3 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/Games
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| News / link | 87% | 3,104 |
| Lessons / story | 3% | 5,459 |
| Rant | 3% | 4,750 |
| Discussion | 3% | 5,021 |
| Promo | 3% | 21 |
| Show & tell | 3% | 0 |
Based on 74 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 2,672
- Top 10% score
- 6,236
- Text posts
- 7%
- Got no replies
- 1%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 16:00 UTC, Tue 17:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is allowed at a ratio — contribute before you post about yourself. Promotion goes in Not specified (Not specified).
- Promotion Must Be Kept Within Acceptable Limits: No more than 10% of your reddit account's submissions may be about a given topic or source, such as about one particular game, content from one particular website, or articles from one particular author.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Directly answers the question or addresses the main point of the post.
- — Provides specific details, technical insights, or personal experiences.
- — Engages in debate or discussion with other users, often with humor or strong opinions.
- — Offers predictions or speculation based on industry knowledge.
- — Uses internet slang and memes common in gaming communities.
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r/Games — frequently asked
How many members does r/Games have?
r/Games has 3,576,492 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 27. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/Games growing?
Over the last ≈24 days r/Games changed by +0.2% — a gain of 5.6K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/Games?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/Games yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/Games created?
r/Games was founded in May 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/Games?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/Games yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/Games for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Games into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/Games's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Games's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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