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Can anyone recommend let's play channels or streamers wherein a group of multiple people play single player games together?

Examples include: Scary Game Squad, Gamegrumps, Team Double Dragon, and the like.

I just find let's plays a lot more entertaining when multiple people are playing and chatting than when it's just one person rambling. But these are weirdly hard to search for!

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  • I like RKG! They play Dark Souls and those types of games- one of them plays, the other two chat about the lore of the game or whatever. Right now they’re playing Elden Ring!

  • How about co-op multiplayer? I've seen a few of those for Baldur's Gate 3. Like Neil Newbon or Jennifer English. Neil plays with his friend Tom (whose surname I have forgotten) and Jennifer with her girlfriend Aliona Baranova. Except for Tom all of them acted in the game.

    • I do like let's plays like that too sometimes - I'll give those channels a try. Thanks! Though I may have to wait til I finish with BG3 myself, which could be a while :p

      I mentioned single player games specifically partly because I personally tend to like those games best, and I like to watch let's plays after playing the game through myself first, then seeing how different people interact with the game differently. I love watching people discover a game I enjoyed (which for me means mostly single player titles) in kind of the same way I might enjoy showing the game to a friend.

      And anecdotally, I tend to feel like groups playing a single player game together tend to talk more about the game in a deep-read kind of way, or to talk about their lives, whereas groups playing multiplayer games seem more likely to talk about whatever is currently happening in the game in that instant, or it becomes mostly them joking and trolling each other. This is just my personal experience though, so it could be a function of the particular let's players and streamers I'm familiar with. I'm sure there are exceptions to this.

      • I like watching Let's Plays for the same reason as you, and while it isn't a group channel I heartily recommend Welonz. She is very thorough and approaches every game with great respect, usually giving a summary of her overall thoughts at the end.

        I found her because of her VTM: Bloodlines LP, but her Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk ones are also fantastic.

  • If you like old adventure games, ps_garak on twitch often streams with his friends

  • Check out "Continue?" on youtube they just find an old or obscure game and play it and rate it continue or not.

  • Not quite the same thing, but one thing I have seen is players that stream slower-paced games chatting with remote viewers.

    On Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Vormithrax, is well-known for this, and watching his videos has often been recommended on Reddit as a way to learn the (quite complicated) game, as he tends to walk people through what he's thinking about while playing.

    Obviously, that doesn't work with every game genre; they have to be able to field suggestions and questions from viewers while concurrently playing. But for turn-based games, I think that it can work well.

  • If you're into pro wrestling, there's the Newlegacyinc boys, they do playthroughs and streams of wrestling (and wrestling adjacent) games. I'm not even really into wrestling and I still find them very entertaining, their streams of MDickie wrestling games are top tier.

  • If you don't mind a group of friends playing multiplayer, there is Stumpt. Depending on the game they're playing, you either get some commentary about the game or in the case of videos like their Game of Life 2 videos, they kinda just talk about whatever because they've played it so much.

  • Check out neebs gaming on YouTube. Excellent and very funny. I also highly recommend their subnautica series, not to give too much away but it follows a different script than the story in the game. It is amazing, and the quality of their videos is top tier.

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