I'm not sure how small is small, but Splattercat Gaming is fun. It's not the place to go for series unfortunately, though I wish he'd get back into them.
But Splat has a lot of interesting life experiences and he's fun to listen to.
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Not sure if "smaller" but definitely Many A True Nerd. Funny, chaotic, wholesome and total allies with a great community. Plus pets!
Oh I remember him.
Keith Ballard is excellent for puzzle games - and, well, most other game types that show up there. He's my personal favorite.
Always gotta recommend Keepetclassy! Gabe and Amber are two Australian friends who have been making gaming videos for a while now. Amber is trans and often speaks about her experiences now which is always interesting.
Can also highly recommend Skurry. They make some really cozy videos on metrodvanias and the like.
+1 for keepetclassy. Good stuff there.
Originally found the channel via "Lets drown out" -series Gabe and Yahtzee (Zero punctuation, Second Wind, etc) did aaaaaages ago.
The one channel that I have never stopped watching is Vash12349 as it is always a good time.
As for finding them you just have to search for games that your interested in and start watching untill something clocks with you.
Brutalmoose (moose2 on YouTube) is the comfiest channel I’ve ever watched and the community he’s cultivated is excellent and full of nice people. He plays a lot of retro and fairly unknown games. He set up a bingo system where he draws a number, plays a game (starting with Windows 98) for 15 minutes, then everyone watching decides whether to play another 15 minutes or pass and draw another number+game. “Bingo98” was the first. It’s excellent and very funny.
Not sure what qualifies as small-medium. I have appreciated Let's Game It Out (6.02M subs), ymfah (1.19M subs), Tech Rules (432K subs), MartSnacks (80.1K subs). All focusing on cool gaming content, no being A YouTube Personality who shows their face and tries to form a parasocial relationship with you.
Let's Game It Out seems to focus on !tycoon@lemmy.world type games, maybe !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works and tries to mess with or break the game. ymfah takes on some interesting self-imposed challenges in FromSoftware and Bethesda games and I think some of them are really well-put-together and funny, particularly Skyrim No Walking which comes with narrative arcs. Tech Rules explains stuff, kind of a video essay thing. MartSnacks basically has three videos of self-imposed challenges with Pokémon and does not seem to upload too often.
Anything below 1M subs, but thanks for the recommends. Also, What about RTS games ?
I am lucky I was able to give you what I did. Not a big video watcher. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Have been meaning to get into RTS more but I have not actually played that many and have seen 0 videos about them, so I'm doubly unqualified to help you with that.
The YouTube algorithm is helpful to me because it knows I only click on gaming videos amongst a few other things. I just never ever clicked the annoying Person SLAMS Person outrage bait type stuff, and I also never clicked Not Interested on them (not sure if YouTube would actually listen, or if it would know by me bothering with "Not Interested" that topic pisses me off to see in recommends and thus it would conclude it ought to show it to me more), so it was forced to only show me the only stuff I engaged with at all: stuff I liked. So sometimes it feeds me nice niche gaming videos. I don't watch frequently enough to exhaust its recommendations into being repeats of stuff I've already seen. It might (not sure) help that I also stuff gaming videos into my Watch Later playlist. This is what I did and I am not entirely sure it will work for you, but hey, it's how I found literally all of these videos. Eventually sometimes it shows me cool stuff by the same person.
I do recommend TaxOwlBear & Leo M. Panther (Lurking Lion) for RTS gaming
& Perafilozof for RTS news
I don’t know if you’d consider them that small, but I love Kindafunny’s content! Especially blessing and Andy Cortez.