r/IndieDev is a subreddit with 427k members. The most common kinds of discussions are self-promotion and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses game development, game, game dev, indie games, and feedback, 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
Self-Promotion
: "We Built a Game About Merging Weird Creatures — It’s Now on Android"
10 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "I built a self-hosted pipeline to guide AI crawlers and track IP. The backend is solid, but I need your brutal UI/UX critiques on my Sandbox"
8 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Apple killed our whole developer account overnight. 4 families were living from this app."
3 posts
#4
Solution Requests
: "I built a live Unity bridge for my project management app, would this actually help an indie team?"
2 posts
#5
Ideas
: "Give me fun suggestions for my game's splash text!"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/IndieDev
#1
Game Development
20 posts
#2
Game
12 posts
#3
Game Dev
10 posts
#4
Indie Games
7 posts
#5
Feedback
6 posts
#6
Horror Game
3 posts
#7
Music
3 posts
#8
Pixel Art
3 posts
#9
Collaboration
3 posts
#10
Art
3 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
Feedback?
: "My new setup for game dev"
30 posts
#2
Video
: "Building the train in my game was a struggle. I am still working on it."
15 posts
#3
Discussion
: "I get why ConcernedApe doesn't update or set dates"
11 posts
#4
New Game!
: "I have experience working with rapiers."
10 posts
#5
Upcoming!
: "I made a trailer for my weird eye tracking adventure puzzle game"
5 posts
#6
Free Game!
: "I made a demo for my upcoming coop game "GHOSTFLIPPERS""
4 posts
#7
Blog
: "After years being in big tech, I reconnected with something I loved but had almost forgotten"
2 posts
#8
Informative
: "IDK how useful this is to most, but the creator of SGM 2 (popular soundfont used for game music) has recently been updating SGM to sound better and released it for free."
2 posts
#9
Screenshots
: "My first JSX project"
1 post
#10
GIF
: "Driving Rogue a roguelite where your car is your build"
1 post
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Yearly
+136k members(46.8%)
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Last updated: July 30, 2026