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?

  • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Thoroughly enjoyed a supercut of Jerma’s elden ring playthrough

    That was some top tier second screen content

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’m currently watching videos of “The Last Caretaker”. Still in development / public beta, but nicely done.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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

  • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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

  • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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).

  • Gonzako@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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.

  • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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.

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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.

      • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        6 days ago

        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.