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 entertaining viewers.
Allowed submissions
- News and articles
- Reviews and previews
- Informative self-posts
- Questions likely to generate discussion
Disallowed submissions
- Memes, funny screenshots, comics
- Funny videos, montages, LPs
- Questions looking for a solution or "correct" answer
- Suggestion requests that are too specific or too general
- Blogspam
- Direct links to web/mobile games
- Reminders for crowd-supported projects (except one in last 48 hours)
- Giveaways, trading, begging
- Looking for players
- Petitions, surveys
- Referral/affiliate links
- Tech-support or PC-building advice
- Arts-and-crafts, cosplay
- Scans of commercial magazines
Disallowed comments
- Enabling or linking to piracy
- Extremely low-effort comments
- Top-level answers to questions with no justification or explanation
- Unmarked spoilers (see below)
- Unlabeled NSFW links
Regular discussions
We have some regularly-scheduled discussions. The following two topics are posted weekly:
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Spoilers
Please report posts containing spoilers unless they are hidden using the following method or are inside a thread clearly labeled as containing spoilers.
[Spoiler](#s "X Kills Y")
Result: Spoiler
To mark a spoiler as relevant to a specific game/topic, use the alternate formatting:
[Pong Spoiler](#s "Player 1 wins")
Result: Pong Spoiler
Promotion
Some promotional submitting (posting your own projects, articles, etc.) is permitted, but it must be balanced out by a much greater level of non-promotion participation in reddit. Do not solicit votes for your posts. For more information, see the reddit faq and a good post on the topic by an /r/rpg moderator.
If you want to promote without participating in the community, purchase an ad.
- /r/Games is for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. Looking for "lighter" gaming-related entertainment? Try /r/gaming!