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.)
Any other ideas?
Thoroughly enjoyed a supercut of Jerma’s elden ring playthrough
That was some top tier second screen content
The absolute strangest 6 and a half hours spent in front of the screen.
I’m currently watching videos of “The Last Caretaker”. Still in development / public beta, but nicely done.
All of the old scummVM adventure games; Sam and max hit the road, monkey island, day of the tentacle, etc
For something more cinematic I’d look at platinum games like Bayonetta, god of wars, mass effects, gears, half-lifes, dark souls
I would avoid something really puzzle heavy like professor Layton or tactical like civ or Stellaris I enjoy watching/listening to people play games but those usually can’t hold my interest unless I’m playing
Edit: a couple more recent titles to add are Pentiment and Kentucky route zero
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.
The original NieR is best watched as an LP. I liked the old SBFP LP.
Lil’ Indigestion has a great blind playthrough of Outer Wilds. I would also recommend About Oliver’s Outer Wilds series as well. They also have great playthroughs of Subnautica.
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.
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
Just look up the youtuber Mapocolops. You’re welcome.
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).
I liked ChristopherOdd’s playthrough of The Last of Us
He’s generally a good blend of entertaining and chill, with great video quality. Think he did part 2 as well.
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
I like watching people play Super Mario World romhacks. Grand Poo World is big and the streamer who made it (barbarousking) is entertaining
I believe in Barbarous King
Also, it’s been fun watching everyone play Dram 3.
👏👏
Ooh, I think Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero may be good for you to watch. Subnautica has really nice exploration mechanics and Outer Wilds reminds me of it in that aspect :)
I started a Let’s Play of that and liked it so much I quit early on and now it’s on a (lengthy) backlist of games I want to actually play. It looks really fun and I love the aesthetic.







