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) is oriented around: 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… Recent activity samples show 19 posts/day in recent samples (~100% text). Public rules we collected 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; collected snapshots can lag. Err on spoiler tags. Common flairs in samples include: [PC] :pc:, [PS5] :playstation:, [Switch] :switch:, [PC].
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jun 24, 2012, which makes it 14 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 697 subscribers (+0.05%). It sits just behind r/Bossfight (#699) and ahead of r/microsoft (#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 2, 2026, r/ShouldIbuythisgame climbed from 1,519,163 to 1,523,403 subscribers (+4.2K, +0.28%). That is about 96 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
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 1,523,403 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #700 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 4,240 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 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/Steam (5.4M), r/YouShouldKnow (5.6M), r/BuyItForLife (4M), r/DidntKnowIWantedThat (1.3M) and r/nflmemes (1.2M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). 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.