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.

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

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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.

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    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)

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    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!

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      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.

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        100% the boyf tunes out on most my gaming YTer bullshit but enjoys AA, the absurdity and the Sims help 😅

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      Thank you so much for this, as soon as I read that you put Mandalore first on the list, I went through all your recommendations and found a couple I didn’t know about (loving Jwlar right now).

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        You’re most welcome! Im usually a fan of more long form than Mandalore, but I can easily put on a mix of their videos for hours 😍

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          Yeah me too, Joseph Anderson is my absolute favorite. I remember the first time I came across his channel back when he revisited his fallout 4 review, no one does it like him!

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            He’s next level when it comes to long form; excellent detail and perspective. I appreciate his literary background playing into his analysis

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    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.

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

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      Yeah I’ve been subbed to him since around 2012/13. Used to watch his Binding of Issac on and off where the banter was top tier as he got so good at the game it was all muscle memory.

      I now watch his Super Auto Pets videos on and off as well which has replaced the Binding of Issac content.

      In both cases he put out more content than I can consume so I’ll always have content to watch.

      They stopped in December just gone, but here is a site where playlists have been made for all the YouTube content.

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    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.

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      Love his zoo and amusement park videos! I feel like I’m missing some lore about Rosa though.

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    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.