About 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.
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%). It sits just behind r/worldnews (#4) and ahead of r/todayilearned (#6) in our ranking.
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.
Stats from public data (data updated Oct 29, 2026). SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/gaming.