I linked a Warlockracy video because I really enjoy his choice of games and presentation.
Other channels I really enjoy: Mandalore, Grim Beard, Civvie11, Oboeshoesgames, and Boulder Punch.
If you can’t tell, I like longform, scripted and edited videos on older games and niche games and mods.
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.
Ive been watching oxhorn recently he does narrative videos for the fallout franchise that are great and interesting
AstralSpiff and backseat streams are speedrunners that absolutely wreck games in ways no creator ever intended
Karl jobst and summoning salt are good at narrating speedruns and speedrunning history
Fondly remember the yogscast I think they still do TTT videos
If you want a really good narrator of an old game krugsmash is your man/dwarf he does great with dwarf fortress
For video game development there’s horrorscoped
I swear I have the weirdest watchlist lol Ive been mainly watching youtube politics and yet I have all these too XD
Crazy to me that your the only one at this time to mention the yogscast. I love these guys, been a fan for allmost a decade now I think.
Think TTT has turned a lot of people away also the drama with sjin really sucked I might be wrong though
The content has changed for sure. But for me it hasn’t been about the game they play for a while, I like the people and will watch them in anything. And yeah, the drama fucking sucked.
I’ve been watching videogamedunkey since I was a highschool freshman. I love his humour, style, and his insights in games and other media.
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.
Girlfriend Reviews is fracking hilarious!
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.
I second Let’s Game it Out. Josh is insane
Let’s Game it Out
Soursweet
Fooster
Anarchy
There are a few more I watch sporadically but these are the main ones
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.
U Can Beat Videogames and quinbobin are two smaller channels I really like.
Mandalore, Hbomberguy, AmbiguousAmphibian, Jwlar, The Dadliest Man, MattKC, Oxhorn, Joseph Anderson, Your Favourite Son, Summoning Salt, Noodle, Avalanche Reviews, Monty Zander, Boulder Punch, The Nth Review, King K
Maybe some others, but those are the ones that jumped out in my Sub list!
2nd for AmbiguousAmphibian. My wife isn’t a gamer, but she loves to watch his videos with me. He always works in some absurd narration and social commentary.
100% the boyf tunes out on most my gaming YTer bullshit but enjoys AA, the absurdity and the Sims help 😅
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 love Christopher Odd too, he has a great pick of games and always pumps out content pretty quick. Also highly recommend.
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.
Seconding KoS. Sometimes to learn, sometimes for just a cosy 45 minutes of listening to someone who sounds shockingly similar to the Canadian girlfriend I sort of lived with at the turn of the century.
She’s great, I love listening to her even if I’m not actively watching the video. It’ll be fiiiiiiiiiine.
This one is a little niche, but Harstem is a Starcraft 2 pro player who does a couple great series of videos related to the game. He’s a lot of fun to watch because he has a deadpan sense of humor and an incredibly chill voice.
I’d start with his “Beating Grandmasters with Stupid Stuff” video where he pretends to be AFK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKc5wwo7a0
