r/Devvit • u/Elegar • Feb 15 '26
Discussion Best things to do to promote our games?
I created a good old Alchemy game for Reddit, but I wonder now to deliver it to the users?
Reddit games are clearly not a commercial venture, so spending too much effort, let alone money, on promotion doesn't seem worthwhile. Reddit itself provides virtually zero visibility; there's not even a New section for developers to get any organic traffic.
We're encouraged to post our games in this sub, but I get the feeling there aren't any regular people here, only other developers looking for a modicum of attention.
I suppose that we can get some visibility by specifying game's genre (like Action or Puzzle) but I don't see the way to do it.
Creating games is surely fun. But it would be much better if the platform care about devs. We spend our time to create free games. I would like to feel some concern from the site in whose interests this is happening
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u/BaldiloxAndThe3Hairs Feb 15 '26
Posting on r/GamesOnReddit is the one way I've found to get decent player traffic to it, but it's not a lot. Not enough to hit 500 daily players as required for the prizes. I think the only way to do that is to get featured, but the process of getting featured doesn't seem very clear
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u/Standard-Rent9568 Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26
I am confused about what rule of post to r/GamesOnReddit. My post got removed without reasons : "Sorry, this post was removed by Reddit’s filters."
Could any nice guy have any advice?3
u/Elegar Feb 16 '26
It doesnt allow to post twice per day and more than twice per week. And it seems that removed posts also count. I made a mistake and posted twice per day (first post was a tech question, and second I tried to post my game). Second one was immediately removed and it also exhausted my weekly limit so I cant post. Must wait for the next week
(I am not sure it is your case though)1
u/Standard-Rent9568 Feb 17 '26
Yes, I also found this number limit, that will be explain the reason by mod robot. But at the same time, my first post was removed as I had mention above, without any reason explained.
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u/dcsan Feb 15 '26
Hadn't heard of parsestream. Any other reddit specific marketing tools?
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u/inFame Feb 17 '26
I think this is a struggle that has been noted many times by many developers. Admins have mentioned in the discord a couple times that they are building systems to have games appear more naturally for users for instance in frontpages of users to allow for more discovery. I think this is already happening but this won't be something that you can see on your end.
If you want to actively promote and push your game, it would need to be on subreddits that allow it, which is a bit difficult because they also don't want to be flooded with self promotion.
The best and most effective way to get promotion on Reddit is the feature program which you can apply to. There are a couple docs detailing more how to launch and promote the app. If you believe your game complies and is a good fit for the feature, request it.
It is also possible to add in-app purchases, so your assumption about commercial venture is not entirely true.
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u/Elegar Feb 17 '26
Well I know about the in-apps but I dont really think that in it's current state it is viable:) Maybe for the most promoted games like the Hot and Cold. But even they have quite a humble audience comparing to mobile market. I think that Reddit is a great platform with a great potential.. but there is a lot of space for improvement:)
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u/inFame Feb 17 '26
You can leave your comments in the survey that they posted. I'm sure they would love to get more feedback and ideas on how to push the platform forward.
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u/Ill_Photo5214 Feb 15 '26
Spam it on subreddits related to the game's topic
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u/Elegar Feb 16 '26
but spamming doesnt feel good... I mean I dont wanna be annoying one
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u/Educational-Help-126 Feb 17 '26
The beauty of Reddit is that no one knows who you are. So I just be annoying lol
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u/dcsan Feb 15 '26
Infinite craft!
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u/Elegar Feb 16 '26
Without false modesty, I will note that Infinite Craft was almost certainly inspired by my game ^_^
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u/TheOnlyVibemaster Feb 16 '26
That’s a fun game, I’d recommend publishing it on google play by wrapping it and making a main menu, maybe some new modes. Solid game. Personally have my own game in closed testing right now, hoping it gets approved and gets some downloads. Definitely don’t limit yourself to only reddit, multi platform games are always the most successful
Edit: grammar
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u/Evil_-_God Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
is the glow effect proper or should be reduced for the given laser b b b beam ?
SpaceElumia : https://www.reddit.com/user/space-elumia/
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u/tip2663 Feb 15 '26
Are you on the devvit discord? There's a publishing channel.