r/IndieDev is a subreddit with 405k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and self-promotion, and the community frequently discusses game development, game, steam, feedback, and indie, and they frequently recommend/review programming language, coding language, and software/website.
This is the place for indie devs and gamers to share anything, be it game development, their favorite games or just cool images, GIFs and music from an indie game in a casual community-run environment. If you're an indie gamer, this place welcomes you too! After all, every gamer is a potential indie developer!
Popular Themes in r/IndieDev
#1
Advice Requests
: "Any feedback on this game?"
11 posts
#2
Self-Promotion
: "I quit my job, sold my house and divorced my wife. BUT my game's demo is finally out!"
11 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "I will never understand the players that put a "not recommended" for an indie game they bought for under $10 and played for over 100 hours..."
2 posts
#4
Solution Requests
: "Steam store publishing check list - what am I missing?"
1 post
#5
Ideas
: "I’m making a tank horror game where you operate a super-heavy tank alone across post-apocalyptic wastelands. You fight enemy tanks and alien creatures while trying to survive in a hostile world."
1 post
#6
Money Talk
: "I just turned down an investment worth over [amount]. Just to do what I love in my first game."
1 post
#7
News
: "Steam Next Fest starts tomorrow! Show me your games :)"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/IndieDev
#1
Game Development
: "A Senior Web Developer’s First Week in Game Development"
83 posts
#2
Game
: "After years of solo development, I finally released the Steam demo for my Game."
57 posts
#3
Steam
: "Steam Next Fest starts tomorrow! Show me your games :)"
33 posts
#4
Feedback
: "Any Feedback on this game?"
27 posts
#5
Indie
: "I will never understand the players that put a "not recommended" for an Indie game they bought for under $10 and played for over 100 hours..."
25 posts
#6
Development
: "After years of solo Development, I finally released the Steam demo for my game."
23 posts
#7
Demo
: "The planets aligned in such a way that I released my Demo 3 hours ago, and now I have almost 600 concurrent players"
21 posts
#8
Trailer
: "I made a new Trailer to go with my demo release."
19 posts
#9
Art
: "Celebrating 40K wishlists with this new Art 🦾🤖"
14 posts
#10
Game Dev
11 posts
Products Discussed in r/IndieDev
Programming Language
8 reviews
#1
Godot
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
GameMaker Studio
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#3
Unreal Engine
4.0★ from 1 review
Coding Language
6 reviews
#1
Codecademy
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
Unity
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
C#
5.0★ from 1 review
Software/website
3 reviews
#1
Miro
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
Obsidian
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
Google Docs
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/IndieDev
#1
Video
: "I’m making a tank horror game where you operate a super-heavy tank alone across post-apocalyptic wastelands. You fight enemy tanks and alien creatures while trying to survive in a hostile world."
37 posts
#2
Feedback?
: "Any feedback on this game?"
33 posts
#3
Discussion
: "AI Techbros are trying to convince us their AI generated stuff is legitimate for Art assets"
18 posts
#4
Upcoming!
: "after 2 years of solo development, my horror game inspired by fear & hunger and outer wilds finally has a trailer and steam page."
8 posts
#5
New Game!
: "We finally made a proper trailer…"
7 posts
#6
Image
: "I will never understand the players that put a "not recommended" for an indie game they bought for under $10 and played for over 100 hours..."
6 posts
#7
Free Game!
: "Finished my first real game!!"
4 posts
#8
Screenshots
: "Finally I can announce my latest project"
4 posts
#9
GIF
: "A cool lil jumpscare we did with a render texture, an outline and a custom UI chalk shader"
3 posts
#10
Postmortem
: "The most common quit-moments during my last Reddit playtesting session"
3 posts
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Last updated: June 16, 2026