List of specific video game communities on the Threadiverse, feel free to comment with more

When I mean “specific,” I mean things like something dedicated to a certain genre, a certain video game, to gaming suggestions, to asking whether you should buy a certain game… anything that isn’t just one catch-all for any video gaming topic. So I’m not including the various !games@instance or !gaming@instance links.

EDIT: There seems to be an issue with kbin that is causing problems with my links and sending some people to the kbin.cafe search results for the community. Will probably make a new post and link to it here when the problem is solved, or copy/paste my source text on a different account.

I know about the following and will be adding to this list with links people comment with:

Game Design/Development

!destroy_my_game
!game_design
!gamedev (kbin.social)
!gamedev (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
!gamedev (lemmy.ml)
!gamedev (programming.dev)
!godot
!haxe
!inat (I Need A Team)
!pico8
!play_my_game
!roguelikedev
!unity
!unrealengine
!voxel_dev

Games

!2007scape (lemmy.ml)
!2007scape (lemmy.world)
!aceattorney
!anothereden
!arknights
!baldurs_gate_3
!battlebit
!battlebitremastered
!celeste
!crusaderkings
!cs
!cyberpunk2077
!darksouls
!dayz (kbin.social)
!dayz (lemmy.world)
!deadspace
!deus_ex
!doom
!undertale_deltarune (lemmy.world)
!deltarune (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
!destiny
!diablo
!doom
!dota2
!drg
!dwarffortress
!factorio
!fireemblem
!ffxiv
!genshin_impact
!genshin_impact_leaks
!geometrydash
!girlsfrontline
!guildwars2 (kbin.social)
!guildwars2 (lemmy.wtf)
!guiltygear
!hellletloose
!huntshowdown
!lastepoch
!leagueoflegends (kbin.social)
!league (lemmy.ml)
!leagueoflegends (lemmy.world)
!legendofzelda
!lemmings
!likeadragon
!lolesports
!lolfanart
!masseffect
!minecraft (kbin.social)
!minecraft (lemmy.ml)
!minecraft (lemmy.world)
!moddedminecraft
!mountandblade
!neverwinternights
!nomanssky
!osu
!outerwilds
!overwatch2
!pokemedia
!pokemon (kbin.social)
!pokemon (lemmy.ml)
!pokemongo
!rct
!rocket_league (lemmy.ca)
!rocketleague (lemmy.world)
!satisfactory
!thesinkingcity
!skyrim
!skyrimmods
!splatoon (kbin.social)
!splatoon (lemmy.world)
!starcitizen (citizensgaming.com)
!starcitizen (kbin.social)
!starcitizen (lemmy.ml)
!starcraft
!stardewvalley
!starfield
!startrekonline
!stauf_mansion
!templeofelementalevil
!tf2
!thesims
!titanfall
!totk
!touhou
!trackmania
!warframe
!witchfire
!wow
!xcom
!xenoblade

Genres

!adventuregames
!arpg
!automation_games
!cozygames
!crpg
!fightinggames
!incremental_games
!interactive_fiction
!jrpgs (kbin.social)
!jrpg (lemmy.zip)
!lifesimulation
!otomegames
!strategygames
!visualnovels

Miscellaneous

!currentlyplaying
!freegames
!gamedeals
!gamingcirclejerk
!girlgames
!gog
!gyrogaming
!oldgames4oldgamers
!paradoxgames
!patientgamers (kbin.social)
!patientgamers (sh.itjust.works)
!photomode
!retrogaming (kbin.social)
!retrogaming (lemmy.world)
!steam
!truegaming

Platforms

!3ds
!amiga (kbin.social)
!amiga (lemmy.sdf.org)
!amiga (lemmy.world)
!amiga (sopuli.xyz)
!atari
!c64 (lemmy.world)
!c64 (sh.itjust.works)
!commodore64 (kbin.social)
!commodore64 (lemmy.world)
!commodore_64 (lemmy.ca)
!dosgaming
!fpgagaming
!iosgaming
!leagueoflinux
!linux_gaming (kbin.social)
!linux_gaming (linux.ml)
!linux_gaming (lemmy.world)
!nintendo
!nintendoswitch
!switch
!pcgaming
!plus4
!sbcgaming
!steamdeck (kbin.social)
!steamdeck (sopuli.xyz)
!xbox (kbin.social)
!xbox (lemmy.world)
!zxspectrum (kbin.social)
!zxspectrum (lemmy.world)

GammaGames,

Thank you for compiling this!

homoludens,

!battlebit

Elevator7009,

Added

Ategon,
@Ategon@programming.dev avatar

Heres a couple other game dev ones from programming.dev since youve got some of them there
!godot
!pico8
!roguelikedev
!voxel_dev
!game_design
!play_my_game
!destroy_my_game
!inat

edit: !haxe

Elevator7009,

Added, including your edit with Haxe

floppy,
@floppy@rabbitea.rs avatar

!lemmings

!xenoblade

!fireemblem

!xcom

As for platforms, there are a load of retro ones which can be added, not sure if you want to include those?

Elevator7009,

Added. I don’t mind including retro platforms. Also, Lemmings wins the best URL on the Fediverse forever ([email protected])

floppy, (edited )
@floppy@rabbitea.rs avatar

OK, so will probably miss loads, but try these for starters. Where I’ve found multiple for the same platform the more active ones are nearer the top.

!amiga

!amiga (Kbin)

!amiga

!amiga

!c64

!commodore64 (Kbin)

!c64

!commodore_64

!commodore64

!zxspectrum

!zxspectrum (Kbin)

!plus4

!dosgaming

!atari (Atari 8-bits, can’t find one for the ST)

Elevator7009, (edited )

Before I add these, would you mind putting all the ones for the same platform, even if it's less active? I added all the ones I know of so it feels weird to suddenly be more exclusive about it. I'm aware there are some posts here that probably have communities on other instances that aren't listed, but I don't expect each submitter to actively know about every single community for their game. The reason I'm requesting this of you is because you actually went and found all the communities, and I want to include the ones you chose not to submit due to size as well. If you're not willing to go get the ones you chose not to submit, I'll go hunt them down myself, but to be honest I'd rather not so I'm making the request of you.

floppy,
@floppy@rabbitea.rs avatar

No problem, have added all the ones I know about.

Elevator7009,

Added, thank you so much for finding them!

Jaysyn,
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

https://kbin.social/m/templeofelementalevil

https://kbin.social/m/neverwinternights

Elevator7009,

Added

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

I guess custom campaign stuff keeps NWN going? How's the game out of the box? I don't really hear about that one compared to other Bioware games. Additionally, how's the enhanced edition? And has anyone modded in decent controller support?

Jaysyn,
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

Yes, decent for 21 years old.

EE has unlocked a ton of stuff for modders & module developers. Beamdog has basically turned over development of the PC version to the community & it's been busy unhardcoding & adding new functionality, the biggest & most obvious change being recently providing an update for custom shaders & having 8 class slots instead of just 3.

I have no idea about the controller situation.

Essence_of_Meh,

I see you've included gacha titles as well. There's a small Girls' Frontline community - it's mostly me posting posting news at the moment so it could definitely use a spotlight.

Elevator7009,

Added. Not a fan of gacha titles myself whatsoever, but gacha titles are still games and this is a list to help others. Have you tried posting in various “new community” magazines like !newcommunities?

Essence_of_Meh,

Completely understandable, thanks for doing this!

Haus,
@Haus@kbin.social avatar

https://startrek.website/c/startrekonline

Elevator7009,

Added

Essence_of_Meh,

Ah! There's also Visual Novels.

Elevator7009,

Added

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

!drg - Deep Rock Galactic

Elevator7009,

Added

tamlyn,
@tamlyn@lemmy.zip avatar

We have an active jrpg community here on lemmy as well. !jrpg

Elevator7009,

Added

pjhenry1216,

Am I the only one where all the links show up as searches instead of links to the communities themselves?

CarlsIII,

Same here, and the only search result is this thread

Untitled_Pribor,
@Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social avatar

Yea, the correct way to link a magazine would be:
@magazine@instance - for /kbin
!community@instance - for lemmy

Elevator7009, (edited )

This is rather frustrating for me. I was corrected on a different post when I used @community@instance and told to use !community@instance. Now I'm being told I got it wrong again. Not angry at you, just angry that I got it wrong twice.

I was told to use !community@instance because it would leave people able to browse and subscribe to the community through their own instance instead of being kicked to a different URL (e.g. !community@instance lets you browse and subscribe from @instance, while @magazine kicks you to the instance.com website), so that's what I'm using here. I am currently under the impression that viewing from your own instance also means you won't see any content unless someone on your instance has subscribed to that community before, as an intentional part of how the Fediverse works; while going to the instance.com website directly will show you everything. That's probably why my links send kbin users to a search result: because on kbin, from the search result you can click and look at the instance or subscribe without ever leaving your own instance.

When you say the correct way to link a magazine is @community@instance for kbin, do you mean I should do it that way for links that point to a kbin instance, or is that how I have to format links to any instance at all (whether lemmy or kbin or even something else like Mastodon) for it to work properly for kbin users? Or is this just about wishing that I sent you to the instance's website with all the content instead of somewhere you can view through your own instance? If it's the latter, I'm really not sure what the etiquette is for what I'm supposed to send you to: your own instance or the source instance, seeing as I am getting corrected about this here to use @community@instance for you but was previously told to use !community@instance.

Once people stop commenting with new communities I can comment the list with links formatted as @community@instance.

pjhenry1216,

I don't see either at symbols or exclamations above. I just see a bunch of search links.

Elevator7009,

Typing in !community@instance and submitting the comment makes it look like !community for me. I typed in !community@instance here: !community

Typing in @community@instance and submitting the comment makes it look like @community for me. I typed in @community@instance here: @community

I see you're on kbin.social, and I'm from kbin.cafe, so we should probably be seeing the same things. Not sure what's happening here.

floppy,
@floppy@rabbitea.rs avatar

Kbin does odd things with links and communities, so I think part of the problem is it has mangled or added some unexpected links when you’ve written the post. However, some of your links in the original post work for me on Lemmy (!freegames is fine), so you might want to compare them.

I’m not sure why Lemmy uses an exclamation mark for communities when everywhere else uses an @. It would be a lot easier if it used @ then it’s universal for Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy.

The new communities group suggests to use the format I’ve used in my previous posts (basically /c/community@instance) - this won’t work on Kbin because it uses /m/. It’s better to use @ there as you said.

Paradoxvoid,
@Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone avatar

I think Lemmy uses ! for instances because @ is used for users - e.g. I expect that @floppy will automatically link to your profile on your instance (and link to your profile on any other viewer’s instance - e.g. for me it should link to an aussie.zone URL).

It’s probably a design decision to differentiate communities from users.

luciferofastora,

Actually, the @user doesn’t seem to work for me here either. Maybe it’s a frontend thing (using voyager)?

Paradoxvoid,
@Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone avatar

I think you’re right and it’s frontend-specific - I’m using Alexandrite and it shows perfectly, but I just checked the default Lemmy UI and it doesn’t handle it properly either.

luciferofastora,

Consider this reply a test. Supposedly /u/[email protected] should work, and @Paradoxvoid should also offer autocomplete, but Voyager at least doesn’t seem to offer it.

floppy,
@floppy@rabbitea.rs avatar

On Connect, the latter works but the former doesn’t. Weirdly if I click on my own username posted upthread, it can’t find me.

Paradoxvoid,
@Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone avatar

Can confirm that the first doesn’t work on Alexandrite, but the second works as expected.

pjhenry1216,

Yeah, your first link shows up as a search on kbin.cafe's instance for me, it doesn't even look like a community link. It's a fully typed out url. Your second link connects me to the magazine community on my own instance.

Paradoxvoid,
@Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone avatar

Since you’re posting to a lemmy instance (beehaw), you should probably use the lemmy style - i.e. !community - I don’t think there’s any need to create an explicit link since I think most UIs will format it for you.

Elevator7009,

I did use the Lemmy style.

I was told to use !community@instance… so that's what I'm using here

This is also what constantly pops up in Lemmy sidebars.

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !communityName@instanceName

Unless you mean that the Lemmy style is just !community, you don’t type @instanceName after it. Did you mean that?

I was under the impression the way I typed the links would work for everyone. I suppose I was taught incorrectly and I’m extremely frustrated by it. I don’t want to be the village idiot trying to help only to require everyone fix their mistakes for them but it seems that’s what I am right now.

oddspinnaker,

I just want to say, I don’t think you’re the village idiot. The fediverse is honestly pretty confusing right now and I would have expected what you used to work too.

This list is so comprehensive, I’ve been looking at it for quite a while and found lots of communities I hadn’t seen before. Thanks for posting it!

neme, (edited )

Rocket League

!rocketleague
!rocket_league

Old School Runescape

!2007scape
!2007scape

Elevator7009,

Added

Anticorp,

Why no Zelda!

Elevator7009,

It's already there. !legendofzelda

Anticorp,

Thanks! I just checked it out and even learned something in the 1 minute I was there.

OpenStars,
@OpenStars@kbin.social avatar

https://kbin.social/m/anothereden - a JRPG nostalgia gacha game

Elevator7009,

Added

Lileath,
@Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

There is also !baldurs_gate_3

Elevator7009,

Added

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