r/Games vs r/gaming

Side-by-side using public descriptions, members, growth and rule titles from SubMouse. Missing fields show as n/a. Adult communities are excluded.

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Informative games desk vs mainstream gaming megathread culture

r/Games aims for informative and interesting gaming content. r/gaming calls itself a major gaming forum and behaves like a broad meme-and-link feed with stricter removals for off-topic templates.

In our directory gaming is one of the largest communities (about 47.4M, rank #5) while Games is about 3.6M (rank #278). Activity samples still show Games posting heavily (~105/day vs ~63), consistent with a denser newsroom style.

Rules: Games bans humor-first entertainment, witch-hunts and low-effort content, and forbids enabling piracy. gaming removes generic meme templates, brigades, unmarked spoilers/NSFW, giveaways/trades and demands discussion prompts as text posts.

Prefer r/Games for industry news, thoughtful discussion and lower meme noise.
Use r/gaming for broad reach and general game culture—expect stricter meme/template enforcement than the name suggests.
gaming has a full SubMouse /r/ page; Games is outside the live Top cut (info tool).

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-06.

r/Games

Quality Gaming Content and Discussion -- /r/Games

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 enterta…

Members: 3.6M
7-day growth: +1.7K
Posts/day: 105.2
Directory rank: #278
Created: May 5, 2008
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 48%, links 33%, videos 20%

Topics: Gaming

Rule titles (short names we collected)

No content primarily for humor or entertainment
No Attacks / Witch-hunts / Bigotry / Inflammatory language
No off-topic or low-effort content or comments
No duplicate posts
No enabling or linking to piracy
Formatting Requirements (All of Rule 6)
Specific Content Restrictions (All of Rule 7)
Follow promotional limits

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r/gaming

The Number One Gaming forum on the Internet.

Members: 47.4M
7-day growth: +8.8K
Posts/day: 63.2
Directory rank: #5
Created: Sep 17, 2007
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 32%, links 30%, images 24%

Topics: Gaming

Rule titles (short names we collected)

Not directly gaming related or generic meme template
Posting guidelines, bandwagons, brigades, direct reply posts.
Piracy
No Giveaways / Trades / Contests / Items for sale / Donation requests / Crypto anything
Not original source / Website screenshot
Spam / Excessive self-promotion
Discussion prompts must be posted as self/text posts
Bigotry / Incivility / Toxicity
AMA related rule.

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Supported differences

Aspect	r/Games	r/gaming
Public focus (from each community’s public description)	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 enterta…	The Number One Gaming forum on the Internet.
Size r/gaming is larger in our directory (about 13.2×).	3.6M members	47.4M members
Posting activity (our sample)	105.2/day	63.2/day
Common post types in our sample	text posts 48%, links 33%, videos 20%	text posts 32%, links 30%, images 24%
Selected rule titles (short names we collected)	No content primarily for humor or entertainment; No Attacks / Witch-hunts / Bigotry / Inflammatory language; No off-topic or low-effort content or comments; No duplicate posts; No enabling or linking to piracy	Not directly gaming related or generic meme template; Posting guidelines, bandwagons, brigades, direct reply posts.; Piracy; No Giveaways / Trades / Contests / Items for sale / Donation requests / Crypto anything; Not original source / Website screenshot

What they share

Shared SubMouse topics: Gaming
Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.

Where this comparison comes from

Safe-for-work directory stats plus collected short rule titles and activity samples. Short titles only.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.