Looking for recommendations of games you think translate well to a Let’s Play.
Here’s a few I’ve watched as some examples:
Dispatch
Dead Space: Remake
Dave the Diver
Outer Wilds
Claire Obscur: Expedition 33
Black Myth: Wukong
Some games I want to play for myself, but others I’d rather just watch. Either I don’t want to buy it, or maybe the game mechanics don’t interest me but the story does. (Dispatch falls under that category.)
In the line of cinematic games, maybe Journey also?
Maybe Songs for a Hero too, but do mind it has two dubbings (Portuguese and English) and they sound different from each other.
I think the Quantic Dream games (Detroit: Become Human, Heavy Rain, etc.) work well to watch since there isn’t much to miss out in the gameplay, mostly just walking, talking, and QTEs. The writing varies wildly in quality, so it’s often a MST3K-like experience with the game being mocked (at least ones I’ve watched), just depends whose playthrough you’re watching.
There’s quite a fanbase for “No, I’m not a Human”. It’s a post apocalyptic horror game. It’s perfect to watch cause of the multiple endings and very simple gameplay.
For Dispatch-likes, perhaps other Telltale games would interest you. The Wolf Among Us was really good if I remember correctly. And the Walking Dead games were… a lot, emotionally, but good stories, the first one especially.
But gosh there’s just so many games out there. Maybe a Breath of the Wild playthrough would be up your alley.
A Hollowknight let’s play might be a bit boring, but I’m certain a lore video would be engaging.
Thomas Was Alone - that’s an older game so I couldn’t tell you if there’s any good videos of it, but it’s great.
Along similar old lines, BioShock games are good. And Dishonored in that same era/vein.
Killer Frequency might also be in the realm of Dispatch. Potentially Potionomics as well.
And any and all Supergiant games I think are great to watch or play. Loads of content in that company. And great songs :3
I enjoyed Chip Cheezum and General Ironicus’ playthroughs of the Metal Gear Solid series back in the day, and their 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand playthrough was good. Oh, and the Uncharted series. Chip is very thorough. They’re still putting stuff out to this day.
Also, I know they’re all dated now, but I still miss Super Best Friends Plays and go back and rewatch their stuff now and then.
All games I had no interest in playing myself, but wanted to know what they were about.
Finally the Let’s Drown Out series of videos by Yahtzee Croshaw and Gabriel Morton are some of the best Let’s Play content I have watched - though they are quite old now.
I think Research Indicates’ Jurassic Park: Trespasser let’s play from 2008 is still the greatest let’s play of all time. It was from the early days of high effort LPs on Something Awful, and while Trespasser is a very interesting game for multiple reasons, it’s also an unfinished mess that is better watched than played (if you could even get it to work).
A semi horror/base management game where you’re a lone Doctor of Astrophysics on a radio signal listening station in the Swiss Alps, tasked with cleaning up the trashed base, maintaining servers, the site transformers running so you have power to lock your doors, and collecting extraterrestrial signals.
You may or may not be alone, if you can’t save the game, then it’s definitely more ‘may’ than ‘may not’.
Recently updated to v0.9 (unstable but functional) with a Christmas event active this month.
Even as a game still in alpha it’s worth the pricetag, currently on itch.io under mrdrnose, believe there’s plans for it to end up on steam.
TearofGrace (TearofDisgrace on youtube) is a proper character of a guy, livestreams it at least once a week and recently put out a video of his exploits in v0.8
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Doki Doki Literature Club
The absolute strangest 6 and a half hours spent in front of the screen.
Stray. I dont watch people play games but I think the game fits nicely as a cinematic and its fun to play.
Watched it near release, loved it. +1
In the line of cinematic games, maybe Journey also?
Maybe Songs for a Hero too, but do mind it has two dubbings (Portuguese and English) and they sound different from each other.
Thoroughly enjoyed a supercut of Jerma’s elden ring playthrough
That was some top tier second screen content
I think the Quantic Dream games (Detroit: Become Human, Heavy Rain, etc.) work well to watch since there isn’t much to miss out in the gameplay, mostly just walking, talking, and QTEs. The writing varies wildly in quality, so it’s often a MST3K-like experience with the game being mocked (at least ones I’ve watched), just depends whose playthrough you’re watching.
Heavy Rain is the best if someone’s got the SHAAAWN glitch.
I’d recommend Materwelonz’ Outer Wilds gameplay
WARNING: Play this game yourself first or you will be spoiled forever!
Yay, I wanted to recommend Welonz as well. I especially loved her Silent Hill 2 playthrough. I found her through Baldur’s Gate 3.
What about A Plague Tale: Innocence and A Plague Tale: Requiem played by Amicia’s (main protagonist) voice actress?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMp9hfhMzmDau8pCXtpOMxA
https://inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=PLlyVpiQZgnX9XLvLPqIthA-COtetrtm_P
There’s quite a fanbase for “No, I’m not a Human”. It’s a post apocalyptic horror game. It’s perfect to watch cause of the multiple endings and very simple gameplay.
For Dispatch-likes, perhaps other Telltale games would interest you. The Wolf Among Us was really good if I remember correctly. And the Walking Dead games were… a lot, emotionally, but good stories, the first one especially.
But gosh there’s just so many games out there. Maybe a Breath of the Wild playthrough would be up your alley.
A Hollowknight let’s play might be a bit boring, but I’m certain a lore video would be engaging.
Thomas Was Alone - that’s an older game so I couldn’t tell you if there’s any good videos of it, but it’s great.
Along similar old lines, BioShock games are good. And Dishonored in that same era/vein.
Killer Frequency might also be in the realm of Dispatch. Potentially Potionomics as well.
And any and all Supergiant games I think are great to watch or play. Loads of content in that company. And great songs :3
I enjoyed Chip Cheezum and General Ironicus’ playthroughs of the Metal Gear Solid series back in the day, and their 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand playthrough was good. Oh, and the Uncharted series. Chip is very thorough. They’re still putting stuff out to this day.
Also, I know they’re all dated now, but I still miss Super Best Friends Plays and go back and rewatch their stuff now and then.
All games I had no interest in playing myself, but wanted to know what they were about.
For MGS I will always recommend Giant Bomb’s old Metal Gear Scanlon series going through all 5 main games, Peace Walker, and Rising.
Did they show every instance of a character called Johnny shitting his pants? There’s one in every game. Like I said, Chip is thorough.
Dan Ryckert would never miss a poop joke. Every Johnny Sasaki is thoroughly covered.
I would recommend Noah Caldwell-Gervais’s Channel for excellent series retrospectives and long form scripted gaming content.
Josh Strife Hayes may be interesting to you either scripted retrospectives or twitch stream VODs
Finally the Let’s Drown Out series of videos by Yahtzee Croshaw and Gabriel Morton are some of the best Let’s Play content I have watched - though they are quite old now.
Last of us and rimworld
If you like variety gaming yt you can check out youtubers like
Satiire, who tries to platinum random ps games,
Kong, that showcases strange (mostly bad) games,
Kedvuit, who’s got a great spirit and loves to showcase strange shovelware,
planet clue, which is also cool but I can’t easily categorize just yet,
Noah Caldwell-Gervais, if you want very intricate scripts and commentary
Open Clubs, who has the “Worst platformer ever” series,
Super bunny hop
It’s jabo and joov do fallout/skyrim content
Shagrots cave is pvc2 challenges.
Basement brothers does oldschool rpgs.
For “I just want let’s play games” I recommend checking out speedrunning marathons.
I think Research Indicates’ Jurassic Park: Trespasser let’s play from 2008 is still the greatest let’s play of all time. It was from the early days of high effort LPs on Something Awful, and while Trespasser is a very interesting game for multiple reasons, it’s also an unfinished mess that is better watched than played (if you could even get it to work).
SovietWomble has some great let’s plays!
The next two are long-form supercuts of a bunch of streams:
I don’t remember if I’ve ever seen Womble’s Goose Game. I love this so much.
I’m a goose
Highly recommend Voices of the Void
A semi horror/base management game where you’re a lone Doctor of Astrophysics on a radio signal listening station in the Swiss Alps, tasked with cleaning up the trashed base, maintaining servers, the site transformers running so you have power to lock your doors, and collecting extraterrestrial signals.
You may or may not be alone, if you can’t save the game, then it’s definitely more ‘may’ than ‘may not’.
Recently updated to v0.9 (unstable but functional) with a Christmas event active this month. Even as a game still in alpha it’s worth the pricetag, currently on itch.io under mrdrnose, believe there’s plans for it to end up on steam.
TearofGrace (TearofDisgrace on youtube) is a proper character of a guy, livestreams it at least once a week and recently put out a video of his exploits in v0.8