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r/SteamDeck

Steam Deck. The Unofficial Subreddit for the Valve Steam Deck! Find discussions, games running on Deck, hardware / software mods and much more! Please read the rules, check for megathreads and search before posting! Check out the community bookmarks for useful links! Founded 2021 · 1.2M members

1.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 46.6K upvotes, which works out to 39 per 1,000 members.

39peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.2Mmembers
46.6Kbest post
4.2Kmost comments
1.6Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

41% 23% 18% 8%
Text 41% Image 23% Question 18% Video 8% Gallery 7% Link 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Tech Support 515 Question 397 Discussion 120 Show Off 51 Meme 49 Software Modding 33 Hardware Repair 29 Video 28 Promotional 27 Article 22

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

r/SteamDeck will no longer allow links to X.

↑ 46.6K 💬 4.2K text 2025

Steam deck - OLED vs LCD comparison

↑ 44K 💬 524 image 2026

Hearing the news

↑ 43K 💬 1K image 2026

They called me a madman! Befriended a simple but reliable Steam Deck Holder during a 12 hour flight.

↑ 35.5K 💬 134 image 2025

Help!! I've set my boot video to Shrek and now I can't use my Steam Deck until it's over!

↑ 33.7K 💬 960 video 2022

They called me a madman! Built a simple but reliable Steam Deck Holder for boring commutes.

↑ 32.8K 💬 539 image 2025

Valve has a customer for life

↑ 31.4K 💬 724 image 2026

What to play before I die : A Steamdeck Story

↑ 28.2K 💬 3.9K image 2025

Gentlemen, I think we are ignoring the obvious

↑ 26.9K 💬 543 image 2026

low effort meme

↑ 26.5K 💬 170 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/SteamDeck, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/SteamDeck?
r/SteamDeck ("Steam Deck") describes itself this way: The Unofficial Subreddit for the Valve Steam Deck! Find discussions, games running on Deck, hardware / software mods and much more! Please read the rules, check for megathreads and search before posting! Check out the community bookmarks for useful links. It was founded in 2021 and has 1.2M members.
How many members does r/SteamDeck have?
r/SteamDeck has about 1.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.6K of its posts; the biggest reached 46.6K upvotes, which is 39 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/SteamDeck?
"r/SteamDeck will no longer allow links to X." reached 46.6K upvotes and 4.2K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/SteamDeck.
What subreddits are similar to r/SteamDeck?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts.
What kind of posts do best on r/SteamDeck?
Of the posts we hold, 41% are text posts and 23% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/SteamDeck?
Across 1.6K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 05:00 UTC (15.8K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 16:00 UTC (11.7K avg upvotes), Monday at 12:00 UTC (6.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/SteamDeck?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/SteamDeck has 19.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 608 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/SteamDeck, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.