Hey everyone! As the year wraps up, it’s time to dive into our end of year tradition. We’ll be highlighting the most popular freebies and sharing some cool stats of this year again. Curious? Let’s get to it!

But first, a huge thank you to each and every one of you for making this corner of the internet such a special place. Here’s to you and to even more free games, fun, and surprises in 2025!

Now, let’s talk numbers. This year, FreeGameFindings welcomed 42.000 new subscribers - exactly the same growth as last year. (Coincidence? Destiny? Who knows!) To all our new members: welcome aboard! Together, we created 1167 posts this year, made 37.500 comments, and hit that up/downvote button over 500.000 times.

One of our most notable moments? We organised two giveaways this year (here's one, and the other) in collaboration with Reddit, which was certainly one of our own highlights! What about you? What was your favorite moment on the subreddit this year? Feel free to share your highlights in the comments, we’d love to hear them!

Let's jump into the stats and here’s to an epic 2025!

Visits:

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 2 million unique users stopped by FreeGameFindings.

On average, 170.000 unique users checked in each month, but in December, thanks to the Epic daily freebies, our subreddit always takes off. December hit nearly 4 million page views (double the average), totalling 24 million total page views for this year:

Unique visitors and total pageviews on FGF in 2024

Platform:

There are several different ways you can visit FGF, and we see all options being used in the image above.

• 60% of you are on new Reddit (up 10% from last year).
• 27% are sticking with mobile platforms (the Reddit app or mobile browser), though that’s down 8% from last year.
• The remaining 13% are keeping it old-school with old Reddit (a small 2% dip from last year).

Platform usage on FGF since 2022

Mods in action:

Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes? This year I thought it might be interesting to show a peek into the mod side of things:

• Posts removed: 1400 (14% by us, 15% by Reddit admins, and 63% by Automod).
• Comments removed: 2700 (18% by us, 75% by Reddit admins, and 6% by Automod).
• Modmails received: 240
• Reports on posts (since July): 629, with half of those reports as “Expired” (thanks for helping with that!).
• Reports on comments (since July): 374

Posts:

What a year again for freebies! In 2024, 187 different users submitted a total of 1167 posts - that’s about 3 freebies every single day!

Here’s the breakdown of what you all shared this year:

• 684 free games
• 129 free DLC
• 197 in-game freebies
• 127 PSAs
• 30 other posts (FGF giveaways, Mod posts, etc.)

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:

And who is finding all these freebies? Here is this year's list of users who have made the most posts on the subreddit. Together, these top 10 submitters represent nearly 70% of all posts on the subreddit, with u/MeguminShiro alone contributing an incredible 38% of the total. A huge thank you to all for sharing freebies all year long!

Top 10 Submitters:

Some freebies are more popular than others. On the whole, we see this year again 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. Epic Games claimed 8 out of the 10 top spots, with u/MeguminShiro submitting 7 of these posts. But the most upvoted post of the year went to Half-Life 2. It seems like we may never get Half-Life 3, but at least Half-Life 2 still wins our hearts - and our upvotes.

Top 10 Posts (most upvotes):

Comments:

In 2024, we had around 7440 of you who together posted over 37.500 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. The top 10 commenters contributed to over 75% of all comments this year. Want to find out your own position? The whole list is available here: r/FreeGameFindings commenters list 2024 (search on your username).

Top 10 Commenters (bots excluded):

Which post received the most comments this year? While many Epic Games giveaways made for a lot of discussions, this year's top posts also features Steam and Prime Gaming. FGF Giveaways have been excluded from this list, since a requirement to enter was to make a comment.

Top 10 Posts with the most comments:

Thanks for reading all the way through, I hope you liked it and see you next year!