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The original was posted on /r/freegamefindings by /u/Saulios on 2023-12-31 18:01:49.
Hey everyone, we’re keeping last year’s tradition going with a look back at the year, highlighting the most popular freebies, and sharing some cool stats. If you’re curious, keep reading! Feel free to post your favorite freebie moments of the year in the comments!
Before we get going, we want to thank all of you for another great year and creating this nice corner of the internet together. Here’s to you and to even more free games in 2024!
In 2023, FreeGameFindings gained around 42.000 new subscribers. The highest gain in new subscribers in a single day happened on October 20, with 2881 users joining our subreddit that day. Welcome all of you!
Views:
We know that many of you visit our subreddit without actively participating (which is totally fine!), and we can definitely see this in our subreddit views. This year, over 1 million users stopped by our subreddit. In an average month we saw around 143.000 unique users visit our subreddit. We were most frequently visited by users from the US, Brazil and Canada. Together, you voted around 500.000 times on posts and comments.
We had a total of over 21.5 million page views this year on our subreddit, an average of about 1.8 million each month. The peak is in December with the Epic daily freebies, pushing page views close to 3 million for this month. It’s great to see everyone engaging with our subreddit in their own way, whether by actively participating or just quietly enjoying what’s here.
Unique visitors and total pageviews on FGF in 2023
Platform:
There are several different ways you can visit FGF, and we see all options being used in the image above. This year, we’ve noticed a change in your preferences. About half of you (that’s 15% less than last year) are using new reddit, while around 35% (10% more than last year) like hanging out on mobile (either through the Reddit app or a mobile browser). The remaining 15% (up by 5% from last year) are keeping it classic and visiting us from old reddit. Cool to see the diverse ways you connect with us!
Posts:
In 2023, we had 138 different users submitting a total of 1102 posts, that’s around 3 freebies every day! Of these posts, 628 were for free games, 142 for free DLC, 221 for various in-game freebies, 78 were Public Service Announcements (PSA), and 33 posts were for other things (FGF Giveaways, alpha/beta, and more).
Now, let’s talk about the places with the most free games. Steam again tops the list, thanks to loads of giveaways organised by external sites, but here’s the breakdown of free games posted on each platform this year (including restocks):
Free games per platform:
| Platform | Free Games |
|---|---|
| Steam | 249 |
| IndieGala | 100 |
| Itch.io (without megathread) | 96 |
| Epic Games | 92 |
| GOG | 35 |
| Nintendo | 15 |
| GX.games | 11 |
| Xbox | 6 |
| Ubisoft | 2 |
Curious about the folks finding all these freebies? Well, here’s the list of users who’ve made the most posts on the subreddit this year:
Top 10 Submitters:
| User | Posts |
|---|---|
| 1. /u/MeguminShiro | 378 |
| 2. /u/Fhczvyd474374846 | 107 |
| 3. /u/Saulios | 75 |
| 4. /u/ColinLab & /u/thalesulisses | 41 |
| 5. /u/EinHaDe & /u/yogurtsapien | 29 |
| 6. /u/RegionalPrices | 20 |
| 7. /u/Betoonit & /u/FearlessShift8 | 19 |
| 8. /u/cubsonyt | 18 |
| 9. /u/Clownski_GOG & /u/Takkie79 | 12 |
| 10. /u/gusitoguay | 10 |
Some freebies are more popular than others. On the whole, we see this year that Epic Games freebies are in high demand and always get a lot of upvotes, comments and views. So it is no surprise that many of these posts ended up in the list of highest upvoted posts on FGF this year. But there are some other ones as well:
Top 10 Posts (most upvotes):
| Post | Upvotes | Post Views | User | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. [Epic Games] (Game) Kerbal Space Program | 1355 | 430.000 | u/MeguminShiro | January 5 |
| 2. [Epic Games] (Game) Fallout: New Vegas - Ultimate Edition | 1230 | 375.000 | u/MeguminShiro | May 25 |
| 3. [Steam] (Game) Metro: Last Light Complete Edition | 1152 | 280.000 | u/MeguminShiro | May 18 |
| 6. [Epic Games] (Game) The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition | 1130 | 266.000 | u/MeguminShiro | December 25 |
| 5. [Epic Games] (Game) Dying Light Enhanced Edition | 1124 | 295.000 | u/MeguminShiro | April 6 |
| 6. [Epic Games] (Game) Dishonored: Death of the Outsider | 1029 | 195.000 | u/MeguminShiro | February 2 |
| 7. [Steam] (Game) Half-Life | 970 | 97.900 | u/GOW_is_overrated | November 17 |
| 8. [Ubisoft] (Game) Assassin’s Creed Syndicate | 931 | 121.000 | u/MeguminShiro | November 27 |
| 9. [Steam] (Game) The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog | 894 | 152.000 | u/Exact-Ad6254 | April 1 |
| 10. [Steam] (Game) Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-shot Adventure | 886 | 138.000 | u/RegionalPrices | March 16 |
Comments:
In 2023, we had around 7200 of you who together posted over 37.000 comments this year. Thanks for participating and helping out others! Here is the top 10 list of the most active commenters on FGF this year. Want to find out your own position? The whole list is available here: r/FreeGameFindings commenters list 2023 (search on your username)
Top 10 Commenters (bots excluded):
| User | Comments |
|---|---|
| 1. /u/MeguminShiro | 3898 |
| 2. /u/Fhczvyd474374846 | 798 |
| 3. /u/StOoPiD_U | 745 |
| 4. /u/Saulios | 485 |
| 5. /u/packirby | 349 |
| 6. /u/Kid_Kidding | 274 |
| 7. /u/TheCheshireGuy | 256 |
| 8. /u/phinecraft | 223 |
| 9. /u/dribbleondo | 197 |
| 10. /u/ColinLab | 136 |
Curious about the most-discussed posts this year? Our list is quite varied, covering a bit of everything. FGF Giveaways have been left out of this list, since a requirement to enter was to make a comment.
Top 10 Posts with the most comments:
| Submission | Comments | User | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. [Epic Games] (Game) Dying Light Enhanced Edition | 282 | u/MeguminShiro | April 6 |
| 2. [Epic Games] (Game) The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition | 253 | u/MeguminShiro | December 25 |
| 3. [Epic Games] (Game) Saints Row | 242 | u/MeguminShiro | December 30 |
| 4. [PSA] 2 x 20.000 Random Steam keys on chip.de @ 10AM/2PM CET December 6 | 236 | u/Saulios | December 5 |
| 5. [Epic Games] (Game) Death Stranding | 235 | u/CB9001 | May 18 |
| 6. [Epic Games] (Game) Snakebird Complete | 234 | u/MeguminShiro | December 29 |
| 7. [Big Fish] (Game) Game of your choice (excluding Collector’s Editions) | 225 | u/Saulios | November 18 |
| 8. [Steam] (Game) Leisure Suit Larry - Retro Bundle | 222 | u/MeguminShiro | February 14 |
| 9. [Ubisoft] (Game) Assassin’s Creed Syndicate | 211 | u/MeguminShiro | November 27 |
| 10. [Epic Games] (DLC) Destiny 2: Legacy Collection | 204 | u/MeguminShiro | December 13 |
Thanks for taking the time to read this, I hope you liked it and see you next year!