@architectofgames.bsky.social
Youtuber, Writer and Enigmatic Observer of Humanity I make silly videos about games: https://www.youtube.com/@ArchitectofGames
January 2026 was so packed with games I just had to start a new monthly series to capture them all!
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youtu.be/mKCIgzLvEXU 2025 was a very surprising year for videogames - so many great games came out that it can be hard to keep up! That's why I've made it my mission to showcase 20 games that you should have played from this year... that you probably didn't!
01.01.2026 20:30 β π 137 π 17 π¬ 2 π 2Sounds daft to say but I'm talking to a lot of people for whom YouTube is proving v difficult right now. If there's someone whose videos you like, boost them. Share their work around if you enjoy it. Support them on Patreon if you can. All helps a tremendous amount when the platform feels so hostile
29.12.2025 03:20 β π 194 π 63 π¬ 1 π 3Darkfry you son of a bitch yours is going to be better and make me look bad!
26.12.2025 22:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Chance is a weird thing in games - there's a perception that as things get more random, games become less skillful and fun, but some of the most random games ever made are also some of the most beloved and memorable, what's the deal with that? youtu.be/_G6CCLW_OLk
26.12.2025 20:30 β π 35 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Crazy that only four games got released this year
12.12.2025 04:09 β π 366 π 18 π¬ 14 π 0
ARC Raiders is a game built around being as inconvenient and annoying as possible, but it wasn't always this way. Once upon a time, ARC Raiders was smoother, faster and a whole lot less fun - what changed? And how did Friction save ARC Raiders from itself? youtu.be/9iPGbbUhP40
03.12.2025 20:01 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
youtu.be/WBHAZz79Ilg Silksong is one of the biggest and best games of the year, as everyone predicted it would be - but within it's perfect shell lie some hidden flaws that most people never noticed, and point to a fundamental issue with the way games are designed that most of us never notice...
20.10.2025 18:02 β π 15 π 5 π¬ 2 π 1Holy crap congrats!
29.09.2025 18:45 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Got married!
29.09.2025 18:40 β π 4457 π 114 π¬ 199 π 2
People love to say that certain gaming genres are dying all the time - but what happens to cause a genre to slip into the annals of history, and where do new genres come from to replace them? Also, why the hell do some dead genres come back to life!? youtu.be/2S9OPB5MN2o
11.09.2025 20:00 β π 25 π 4 π¬ 0 π 2
There sure are a lot of games about climbing coming out right now, aren't there? But why are so many difficult, punishing games getting released all at the same time, and what does this say about where game design is headed? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdh7...
03.08.2025 18:00 β π 43 π 10 π¬ 1 π 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVJU... As it turns out, we've been getting difficulty wrong for years, and it took a weird sequel with bad minigames to reveal that difficulty isn't just one simple thing - it's actually six different equally complicated things all at once!
19.06.2025 20:00 β π 27 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1the absolute gall of a this douche wearing an fps maga hat announcing he made a battle royale 7 years too late is truly the stuff of legends
06.06.2025 23:09 β π 45 π 10 π¬ 2 π 0Our Peabody speech for 1000xRESIST.
βThis art form is barely unearthed. Itβs too early to define it. Fund the indescribable.β
The grifters really are out in force lately holy shit
22.05.2025 17:57 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I for one was totally fooled - you famously love the stories in games and hate emoting at all when you speak it's a perfect replica. (srsly though this is galling - do us all a favor and smash this guy's channel)
19.05.2025 11:13 β π 68 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Seriously who's idea was it to add those 2000s-ass minigames into doom dark ages? I audibly groan every time it makes me do a stupid mech fight or a dumb dragon bit and FORGET about the turret segments. The core combat rules but I don't know what they were thinking with this other gimmicky bullshit
17.05.2025 20:53 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No puzzle solutions but I do show off some midgame rooms/concepts that you might not have unlocked yet - I think you'll be fine!
07.05.2025 20:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
youtu.be/gZvfPpYD1Vg Blue Prince is a videogame filled to bursting with puzzles and riddles that are as challenging as they are satisfying to solve... or are they? What if Blue Prince was actually helping you more than it let on, and that it's this secret support that makes the game so compelling?
07.05.2025 19:00 β π 19 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0I've never felt more seen
11.04.2025 21:00 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
youtu.be/V4anoUua_Mo Progression Systems are everywhere in games, ESPECIALLY over the last few years! But, it seems like the more of them that are in a given title, the less good it feels to progress - what's up with that? And why is monster hunter, with it's awesome progression somehow immune?
27.03.2025 21:15 β π 25 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
youtu.be/3eCd3wGL4eE The phrase "It really makes you feel like" is one of the most overused and irritating things in videogame discourse and has been for years, but what if I told you that within the stupid memes and bland observations there was a grain of truth, and an entirely new kind of game?
14.02.2025 21:00 β π 24 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0EYYY CONGRATS!
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Announcement! I'm doing a marathon charity livestream on Jan. 28 to benefit Trans Lifeline! The entertainment will be me trying to beat every mainline Mario in one go, adding on more as donation incentives. Now is the time to support our trans friends :)
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2024 has been one hell of a year for games, but with all the massive titles releasing this year, even more have gone criminally underplayed! Luckily for you I'm here to tell you all about 20(24) games you should have played from this year!
Will do!
20.12.2024 03:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Had to look at twitter for the first time in weeks to post the latest vid and wow it's a fucking ghost town over there (at least relative to the people I follow) - it's just the meme aggregator accounts and the menswear guy left fighting in the bombed out ruins of my timeline
20.12.2024 02:59 β π 45 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is your font!? It came in really handy! I'll post a link crediting you in the description of the video (really should've done that to begin with) - do you have anywhere in particular you'd like me to direct people to?
20.12.2024 02:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The human brain is amazing, it's more adaptable, powerful and creative than any computer we could ever think to create - however, it's also broken and terrible and I want my money back. How do our terrible brains impact the way games need to be designed? youtu.be/BZoOIxqOv9U
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