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/r/tipofmyjoystick: What was that game called again?

This is a subreddit for finding the name of a game that you can't remember. Read the rules, post your description, and hopefully someone will be able to identify it. Be sure to help out if you think you may have an answer to someone else's post!

470k subscribers4,333 posts / mo in Sep 20263,613 authors / mosince 2012

r/tipofmyjoystick has 470k members (+16% over the last 12 months). It gets about 4,333 posts a month from 3,613 people. Top topics: Point-and-Click Horror Games, Game Identification Help and Old Games Identification.

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Size and growth

How r/tipofmyjoystick has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+16%in 12 months · +2.9% in 3 months · +0.7% in 1 month
Oct 2026469k
Growing469k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−55%vs Sep 2025 · −13% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20264.3k
QuieterPeaked at 13k in Aug 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/tipofmyjoystick

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Point-and-Click Horror Games25%
  2. Game Identification Help12%
  3. Old Games Identification7.3%
  4. Flash Games4.3%
  5. Racing Games2.3%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. itch
  2. Flashpointproject
  3. My Abandonware
  4. The Italian Baker
  5. Big Fish Games

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Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research