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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.
"Hey its me, Videogamedunkey!"
Also +1 for digital foundry. Great hosts who look at both console/pc games, old and new, with technical or general analysis
Id add Skillup and ACG to this list as well. For more technical DF style stuff, GamersNexus is the best PC gaming hardware channel on youtube
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.
Robbaz isn't just any Swedish guy.. he's the King of Sweden! 😁
He's by far my favourite streamer, the only one I don't get bored of after a while 🙂
I can't believe I didn't refer to him using his full title! I hope he can forgive this transgression 😅
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.
Not really a content creator, but rather a network of creators - The Yogscast. They're fun, they're all friends, they make me laugh, they're wholesome and cursed at the same time, I love em.
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.
Many A True Nerd, Mikeburnfire... does Jerma count? I'll add him
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.
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.
RTGame, callmeKevin, ambiguousamphibian, t90official
I love RTGame and CallMeKevin. Their wholesome evil brings so much joy
Hi my name is Kevin and today I am a menace to Society. I love Kevin and RT!
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.
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've been watching videogamedunkey since I was a highschool freshman. I love his humour, style, and his insights in games and other media.
I second this, he's always been so unique and hilarious, yet oddly genuine.
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
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!
I basically only watch Hermitcraft at this point. My faves are Etho, MumboJumbo, Joe Hills and ZombieCleo (honorable mention to Grian and GoodTimesWithScar)
Yeah another Hermitcraft fan (excellent taste btw). Ive been catching up on Season 9 and I'm challenging myself to watch every hermit's videos. I'm finding every time I watch a video by a hermit I thought I didn't really like that much that they're actually all absurdly entertaining. I'm right about to hit the climax of the RentheKing arc and I'm constantly laughing out loud.
The fact that there's so much talent on that server is insane.
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.
You basically hit 3/4 of my list here.
I also enjoy Vinesauce and his gaming corruptions.
Insym is great as well for his horror-style longplays.
I'll check them both, and I recommend you to check KoS too! She's lovely, I practicaly learned English by listening to her 🥰
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.
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
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)
Definately Soviet + videogamedunkey
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.
shoutout to simpleflips
I'm a big fan of Ryukahr. He's a super chill guy who mostly plays Super Mario Maker levels and is incredibly good at them.
I'm a fan of Vinesauce and Vinesauce-adjacent streamers (Jabroni Mike), but I occasionally enjoy other channels that people mention here, too
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 recommend Warlockracy specifically to you then, since he’s kind of a mix of Mandalore’s format with pseudo philosophical musings. A very particular sense of humor that often requires deep pull internet knowledge layered on top.
Seconding the many people who love Josh, the mad genius of LetsGameItOut.
As for commentary, no one come close to the great Noah Gervais, who does long (and I mean looooooooooooooooong) form essay videos.
SummoningSalt has excellent history pieces on speedrunning. For comedy, I stick with the Game Grumps, they recently reverted to including game names in their video titles again. watching them is a wonderful way to decompress at the end of a long day.