The best Reddit communities for Indie games.
Solo and small studios shipping and marketing games. Below are the 3 Reddit communities Burrow tracks for this niche, ranked by how active they are. Burrow indexes 6 indie games communities across all eight platforms.
Game developers share tools, postmortems, and the business of shipping games.
Solo and tiny-team game devs post devlogs and ask hard wishlisting questions.
Indie studios showcase work and discuss marketing for small game launches.
Recent threads from these rooms
A sample of what indie games are discussing on Reddit right now.
How are you all handling Steam wishlists before launch?
We tried three different setups for Steam wishlists before launch. The third one finally stuck, sharing the before and after so it might save someone time.
Marketing a game with no budget: what is actually working in 2026?
Honestly thought marketing a game with no budget would be simple. It was not. Here is what I would tell a past version of myself.
Anyone else frustrated with press and streamer outreach?
Posting here because r/IndieDev usually has the most practical answers. Looking for what actually moved the number, not theory.
We fixed our finding playtesters. Sharing the real numbers.
Honestly thought finding playtesters would be simple. It was not. Here is what I would tell a past version of myself.
Honest question about demo conversion on Steam
Posting here because r/IndieGaming usually has the most practical answers. Looking for what actually moved the number, not theory.
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