Gaming

I've been watching videogamedunkey since I was a highschool freshman. I love his humour, style, and his insights in games and other media.

Gotta be SovietWomble and his "Random Bullshittery" episodes!

It's usually 10-20 minutes of high quality sillyness realesed every month or so, although he's been doing some longform video essays too in recent years

(Warning: occasional strong language)

I don't watch that much Youtube nowadays (don't have much free time), but when I do, I enjoy these channels the most:

• Girlfriend Reviews: Entertaining, funny, and wholesome reviews. Really like their dynamic;
• GPLaps: Very interesting simracing channel, you get regular simracing content but also some very interesting videos about historic races, cars, tracks, etc., that he recreates with mods;
• Kilian Experience whenever he feels like uploading. Has been branching to other stuff aside from gaming lately;
• LordKnight: Fighting game-focused channel. Initially subscribed because he was the Millia player outside Japan but switched to Baiken since. Still has good, insightful content.

On PeerTube, there's BoilingSteam, who mainly focuses on PC gaming on Linux. I'd like to get a better feel for what's on there regarding gaming channels and whatnot. If you know any you'd recommend, I'd really appreciate if you could mention them.

Wirtual definitely does a great job of the long form history focused deep dives on Trackmania.

Dunkey, Let's Game It Out, NakeyJakey, Digital Foundry, and Gameranx are the ones I watch most regularly.

The Architect of Games and Razbuten are fun ones if you like video essays, and Keenengraz is great for finding lots of insane free games to play. ThatGuyGlen has some cool, short docu-style videos on the making of indie games that are really well done.

I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty, but those are some of my favorites, for sure.

Real Civil Engineer for messing about in building games like KSP, Cities Skylines

Let's Game it Out for breaking games

The Spiffing Brit for finding funny exploits

Video Game Dunkey for reviews.

Josh Strife Hayes makes really good videos about mmos and retro games ( on his other channel ). I love the constructive criticism he gives devs and his sarcastic delivery.

I really love That Trav Guy, he makes super interesting and entertaining videos on the history behind and gameplay of games and game series, his MegaMan X6 video got me to finally finish the game after struggling with it since I was like 6. I also follow him on Twitter and he just seems like a swell guy!

shoutout to simpleflips

I miss Two Best Friends Play.

Vinesauce, Josh Strife Hayes, TripleJump when i just need to turn my brain off with a wall of content, plus a bunch of old SomethingAwful Guys: Smight, TieTuesday, Psychadelic Eyeball, Diabetus, etc

Videogamedunkey and NakeyJakey make some great/hilarious content.

There's also a soft spot in my heart for Jerma985 though these days he does twitch and only occasionally posts clips to his second channel.

RTGame, callmeKevin, ambiguousamphibian, t90official

Nowadays Markiplier is the only one of the gaming YouTubers I watch that still uploads quality content regularly. Back in the golden era of YouTube gaming channels I used to watch PewDiePie, UberHaxorNova, Cryaotic, The Creatures, Kootra, ImmortalHD, FrankieOnPc, etc. Most of those guys no longer upload so I don't have much gaming in my feed anymore...

ChristopherOdd for playthroughs.

I've been keeping up with Thabeast721 in his quest to beat every N64 game ever made (and he means all of them) It's very fun seeing some of the more obscure games and how he manages to figure out some of the Japan only games.

Northernlion is my favorite, and he absolutely pumps out the content. His banter is perfect for me.

A couple ones with longer videos, and some music-related channels are my (current) favourites.

https://www.youtube.com/@SummoningSalt/videos https://www.youtube.com/@Bismuth9/videos https://www.youtube.com/@ChurchofKondoh/videos https://www.youtube.com/@TheNobleDemon/videos

And also shoutout to TotalBiscuit. Still do miss his quality content. Haven't seen any channel nowadays come close to it.

Robbaz - He is a Swedish guy I have watched for a very long time now. He has the ability of turning what could be mundane games to watch, into wild and crazy stories. Highlight series he's done are Skyrim, Kerbal Space Program, and The Sims.

He posts a lot less than he used to on YouTube, but they're great everytime he does.

Pre-warning - His videos contain a lot of dark humour, so may not be for everyone.

I don't watch that much gaming related YouTubers but I usually like the content from Bricky, Mandalore and ambiguousamphibian.

Especially ambiguousamphibian's pseudo philosophical challenges are always entertaining. People should check out his: "Kenshin - The Torso Squad Experience" series.

I enjoy watching ironmouse on twitch.

CJUgames, Many A True Nerd (MATN), ManlyBadassHero, and Markiplier are my favourites. Except for MATN, they all focus on horror games. I like MATN for his strategy game playthroughs, such as Civ or Xcom.

Many A True Nerd, Mikeburnfire... does Jerma count? I'll add him

I'm a big fan of Baalorlord. He's a top-level slay the spire player with a bunch of world-record streaks, and his main channel is primarily spire play... which may not interest you if you're not into that game. But his archives and variety channel and Baalorlord plays channels have more game variety, with a strategy bent. Recent plays I can think of include xcom, cult of the lamb, brotato and vampire survivors, several deckbuilders other than spire, into the breach, slice and dice, and has a running series where he plays the old snes game chronotrigger.

Super melodious voice, very positive vibe... he never shit talks or makes excuses, top tier strategic analysis on the thinky games, great punny jokes and light atmosphere. Highly recommend.

Christopher Odd, hands down.

Discovered him around the time XCOM2 got released, because I was looking for someone to learn a trick or two from. Learned a lot from how he plays tactical games, but stayed for his calm and down to earth way (I absolutely can't stand that hyper, over-the-top crap that a ton of Let's Players do). Have also discovered the one or other gem through his videos.

Can only recommend!

Oh, and I also watch a ton of stuff on game design due to an interest into game development and recently did a blog post on my favourites there. To quickly summarise that: The Architect of Games, Design Doc, Game Maker's Toolkit, GDC, Noclip, Razbuten

I basically only watch Hermitcraft at this point. My faves are Etho, MumboJumbo, Joe Hills and ZombieCleo (honorable mention to Grian and GoodTimesWithScar)

I love KatherineOfSky, Let's Game it Out, Summoning Salt and recently started following Real Civil Engineer.

Except for Summoning Salt that makes INCREDIBLE documentaries about speedrunning, the others play the kind of games I enjoy playing, so I enjoy watching them too: building games, tycoons and all the like.

The ones I've been watching most recently have been No beans and Kaif, Wirtual and his casting vods for TMGL, and the odd Jacksepticeye or Markiplier when i see their vids.

The three gaming YouTubers I watch most right now are Hutts, ProJared, and jacksepticeye.

None of them take themselves too seriously, and love a good laugh. There's a mix of long form and short form content there, but it's all unscripted and most of it is largely unedited.

I just stumbled into grim beard. He good. Seems he’s doing the civvie bumper skits that are not really connected to any story.

Bingeing his library wile i wait for more content from Mandalore. I will have to try out oboeshouegames and boulder punch

I'm a Dark Souls addict, so Iron Pineapple, Ymfah, VaatiVidya, Lobos Jr, and The Backlogs are all weekly watches for me.

And of course the MVP, Dunkey.

I'm a fan of Vinesauce and Vinesauce-adjacent streamers (Jabroni Mike), but I occasionally enjoy other channels that people mention here, too

If you care about the technology behind games, Digital Foundry is fantastic

Jacob Geller, although his videos are often about much more than just video games.

My top two are:

• Many A True Nerd
• GmanLives

MATN is pretty chill and wholesome and funny. GmanLives focuses mainly on FPS games, but they have funny honest opinions about what they are checking out and they do some nice retrospective videos as well. I also like TK-Mantis for his Fallout stuff as well, decino for his Doom deep dive videos, and Accursed Farms for his game dungeon series.

I like Quill18 as a non-hypey gamer who plays a nice array of games. He's mostly into stategic sims, but ventures out to other game types every now and than. He has a solid understanding of the games he plays, yet he doesn't cheese it.

Errant Signal does meta analysis on all types of games but focuses on obscure indie titles. He’s probably love/hate but I really enjoy his style and I love the obscure games.

Icaruslives does all doom mods. Easy 5-10 min vids on all the thousands of doom mods out there.

Game Maker’s Toolkit is all about analysis of game components with the MO of thinking about how to make a good game. Very interesting and well produced

Upisnotjump does a ton of shit but if you’re into the long form style he’s got a lot. Humor forward with quick cut editing so can be a lot but I’ve liked a lot of his stuff