YouTube Playables: Welcome to Hell

[@EmmaThorneVideos]

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[@maxmac7845]

the stelth yt game is good. parking jam is ok too. the rest, not so much.

[@seban678]

Well, that's an awkward sponsor lol. You're right, RAID isn't in the same category as the shit on YT playables. It's in a whole other category of shit. I hear they pay well though, so keep up the act, you're doing great!

[@Tonithemeloni04]

Get that bag but no thanks

[@Nezzeraj]

Emma: "I'm not very discerning when it comes to mobile games." The ad: Raid: Shadow Legends! Lol that is awesome, seems very much like indirect commentary.

[@joe47771]

i was wondering about these, much needed info

[@segue2ant395]

As an indie dev - visibility is always awful when you make smaller games, because you have to compete with the shovelware. YTPlayables has made an _interesting_ choice by starting off with a library composed entirely of shovelware.

[@Blaineworld]

they also have a few classic mobile games like cut the rope though

[@GoldieDoggy]

​@@Blaineworld and that 2d game with the car, iirc. I remember playing that one in the early 2010s, on my cousin's tablet

[@RobotGamer-t4t]

@@GoldieDoggyHILL CLIMBER YEAHHH

[@stevewalker9870]

It's got Angry Birds, Hill Climb Racing, and Cut the Rope, that's it in the way of actual "good" games, the rest just seems like a way to pad out the catalogue

[@wareforcoin5780]

The best thing there is bubble pop. Imagine the best game being _bubble pop._

[@furonguy42]

We almost lost Emma to Fork N' Sausage. I fear she was moments away from becoming a full-time Fork N' Sausage eSports professional.

[@Rob_Thorsman]

No, the one she was really into was that evolution game.

[@taniajs]

I mean, ngl Fork&Sausage IS pretty fun. I have it downloaded on my phone and play it from time to time. I'm at like the level 310 or something Just a bit of mindless fun of a game

[@isaacbenrubi9613]

"YOU ARE FAILED!" Well damn. I guess I've gotta reinvent myself again.

[@zeph0shade]

Which can often be not the worst idea! Very rude way to tell people though.

[@daniellamcgee4251]

Emotional damage!

[@Urzalyr]

The “You’re Winner” of modern gaming.

[@MaskedCommenter]

Fun fact: Rainy Boba Café is a real game! It's a Google Doodle that's playable on the Google website. It features some crossover characters too.

[@HylianFox3]

Really, a lot of these are like Google Doodle only much worse

[@DeathnoteBB]

Yeah they’re all real games. They’re just mostly App Store crap

[@danilooliveira6580]

aaah, that makes sense why it felt so high quality and yet so bad. because it's a google doodle.

[@0Fyrebrand0]

I got so excited when Lucky the Cat showed up! She's the main character in Doodle Championship Island Games, the doodle from back when the olympics were in Japan. It's actually a really cool game, I loved it a lot.

[@MaskedCommenter]

@@0Fyrebrand0 Fr!!! I'm not even a shipper but Lucky and Momo look so adorable together!

[@petersage5157]

KZbin Playables is the worst thing I've seen this week, and I've been following the Cabinet nominations for Project 2025.

[@ChannelofNathaniel]

I’m aware of what Project 2025 is but what are cabinet nominations? I’m pretty new to politics so forgive my lack of knowledge

[@somethingstupid699]

P2025 is this rounds version of qanon. He goes with it enough to get the voters that want it, but distances himself enough to have plausible deniability. I see no reason to believe he actually cares about p 2025

[@maxsalmon4980]

@@ChannelofNathaniel The Cabinet is a set of appointees by the President that serve as advisors and heads of a set of executive-branch departments that help manage various activities. Things like the Department of Education, Department of Defense, etc etc. Each Cabinet member is therefore a powerful and influential individual with broad powers to oversee policy, and who answers directly to the President. So of course Trump, um, had...choices. For it. That were exactly as one might expect those choices to be. In the worst possible interpretation.

[@GhostDragon1229]

basically the people trump is choosing to nominate to important government offices (high school government class this year is wild)

[@TheBlingting]

Coincidentally enough, Matt Gaetz's girlfriend is a big fan of these games.

[@Matt__B]

Playables is to games what Lunchables is to lunches.

[@Beamer1969]

this is completely unfair to launchables they are sometimes tasty food

[@montyr2083]

@@Beamer1969 Fair; Playables is to games what Lunchly is to Lunchables.

[@Marlenefrompoland]

That's so ducking true 😂😂😂

[@Marlenefrompoland]

​@@Beamer1969no

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

@@Beamer1969 Tasty? Ain't no universe that pasty white _thing_ has any taste. Lunchables is what happens if you took random stuff from one grocery aisle and package it.

[@syl3924]

>haha look at these bad games >unironic raid shadow legends advertisement >anyways back to the shovelware

[@Doomwarden13]

I had to scroll WAY too far down to find this.

[@KittycatKye]

Raid Shadow Legends is just as terrible as shovelware.

[@katdixon8390]

@@KittycatKye Arguably, it's MORE terrible; shovelware is generally not *good* at predatory monetization tricks even when they try to implement any. Projects like Raid: Shadow Legends, on the other hand, leverage a lot of experience and research in psychological manipulation and exploitation of the customer base. They're far more competent at draining people's wallets directly, rather than just shoveling through ads and selling whatever user data they can get their hands on like shovelware does.

[@midnight4685]

I did appreciate the irony, if nothing else. She said she could only sit through 6 minutes of those shovelware games and then launched into the ad, and I was like 'ah, so RSL is 7 minutes.'

[@MichaelPalin]

Honestly, Raid is fine. I put about an hour a day into it for a few months before I got bored, and I never paid any real money in that time. Having Emma do an ad for Raid is like having Emma doing an ad for Wendy's. It's not a great brand to associate with, but it's far from the worst.

[@MrDoenyon]

Fun fact they don't need to be good games, they don' t even need to be games. They just need to feel all the psychological tricks that gives us the little dopamine that keeps us glued to the screen. It's about showing you more ads, not making you have fun.

[@meh3247]

Speaking as a former Corporate Web Dev of many years, I completely agree. Advertising's constant demands for attention now drive all internet traffic. Creativity, individuality and humanity be damned. The glory days are dead, capitalism killed them.

[@leviadragon99]

And if it becomes popular enough, microtransactions out the wazoo.

[@linuxguy1199]

Plus from the look and simplicity of these games I'm betting they're targeting children - nothing better then a young impressionable person to advertise crypto scams to, let the ad revenue roll in!

[@TurbopropPuppy]

yeah but KZbin Playables don't have ads, making these shovelware apps a baffling choice for it

[@leviadragon99]

@@TurbopropPuppy *Yet* They do not have ads *yet*. Initially presenting a better service before deliberately making it worse for profit once you have established market share is a time-honoured capitalist tradition... now that would work better in this case if the games were worth a damn and the storefront systems weren't terrible, but that's where corpo mismanagement come in.

[@EvanMe]

"Why's there so much balls?" -Emma Thorne, 2024

[@Heaven_Can_Wait]

Balls

[@ShineAqua]

Indeed, balls.

[@LSA30]

Welcome to the internet😂

[@valolafson6035]

Balls

[@jenniferkorf4767]

Balls

[@cgmeyo]

The Boba cafe game (and some other I saw in the library) are games from the Google logo Doodles thing... So they were developped by Google years ago and dumped in there to give you *some* actual games to play.

[@fluffskunk]

Explains why it looks like actual effort was put in.

[@HylianFox3]

I'm so glad somebody finally did a video on these, I've been seeing these stupid games on my front page for a couple months now and my response was both "why?" and "these look like total garbage" Nice to know at least a couple of them are mildly amusing.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Ryan George did a video too

[@Lunar_Sovereign]

nice to see the "playables" are exactly the quality i assumed they would be.

[@OrbObserver]

It's the equivalent to how food described as "edible" tastes.

[@papermoonkings]

36:11 reminds me of the little detail that in Animal Crossing (New Horizons, idk about the others) frog villagers are the only ones that never pull out an umbrella when it rains. It's adorable??

[@Accidental.Creation]

Mocking KZbin games (which are terrible), while being sponsored by Raid (which is just as terrible) sure is a choice, lmao. I don't fault you for it, as far as I know Raid sponsors bring in the money, but it is a little funny.

[@greensheen8759]

Yeah that made me pause the video and do a double take lol

[@dalemsilas8425]

I'll allow it. The Channel needs more sponsors.

[@OneClickWonder]

It's insincere, and it actively takes advantage of the viewer. It's not cute or funny, it's scummy

[@Quaila]

It's probably the best case scenario spot for this ad since it fits the whole theme of the video. I think Emma respects her viewers enough to reasonably trust that we will not download raid shadow legends. It's free real estate really, I could see myself doing the same.

[@jenniferkorf4767]

Making money so you can buy food and all your bills is scummy? That’s a first

[@sqeekydemon]

"Why are there so many ball games?" Balls are easy to animate and apply physics to. Ball puzzle games are just easy-to-produce schlock

[@jenniferkorf4767]

They know what the people want: balls

[@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman]

20:53 "I deliberately picked all the wrong options and I won" That is a funny qoute from Emma Thorne.

[@HungryWarden]

A quote from Emma Thorne in an Emma Thorne video? No way.

[@Oblivion-VigasFirst]

​@@HungryWardenYES WAY.

[@ferociousfeind8538]

smth smth "welcome to american politics"

[@harbingerdawn]

Honestly that sounds like a description of life.

[@meganhannah9341]

a VERY small handful of them (like the boba game you played, as well as adorable home and the magical kitty game) are real and fun games, but there drowning in shovelware so hard to find unless you know what you're looking for. The only bonus to playing them in browser is if you have ad block you can actually play them.

[@axel1957ll]

I learn a lot from watching Emma's videos. Now I know that I too can design games

[@fepeerreview3150]

2:50 Regarding the new browse roll out, this is due to a failure of project management. I work in project management and there is an approach specifically popular with people who work in anything tech related. Their idea is to try to get something "out to market" as fast as possible. So they develop the product in discreet pieces they can release sequentially, instead of designing a comprehensive package with everything in place and then releasing the whole. Expect to see more bits and pieces, such as a search function, emerge over the next 2-3 months. This approach is called Agile. In my opinion it fails more often than not. As a PM I refuse to have anything to do with it in my work.

[@TheLoneWolf3755]

I will never understand the mentality of "push the product out however unfinished it is". I mean, don't people say first impressions are everything? If someone's first impression of your product is it's unfinished, that ruins the lasting perception of your product. Just look at AAA games like cyberpunk. It was a total loss and failure at launch because corporate wanted to rush it out, and even though now it has finally "finished" development and is a fantastic game, it will never see the success it could have gotten if the release was delayed.

[@zeph0shade]

@@TheLoneWolf3755 I think it's often got to do with the fact that in our modern iteration of capitalism, customer satisfaction and even sales are a secondary concern behind investors/shareholders. My understanding is that in order to keep your investors, well, invested, you have to be constantly "improving" your product/service all the time. You don't have to release something "good", you just have to show that it's constantly being added to in some way. So it almost hurts them more to release something in a good state, because what if there's no room to expand it later? More profitable to offer a bad product, say "oops haha sorry about that, don't worry we'll fix it" and then implement mediocre updates over as long of a stretch of time as possible, so investors see something that looks like "progress" every time they glance in your direction. They're always trying to play the long game, and that often involves more-or-less deliberately sabotaging themselves in the present if they're convinced they can afford to take the hit. But that's just my theory. My capitalist dystopian theory.

[@katdixon8390]

I've heard some people say that Agile works well when it's implemented properly... but never heard anyone say "yup, Agile is implemented properly in my workplace!" It seems that some middle manager at KZbin didn't grasp that your "Minimum Viable Product" is still meant to be an *internal* build, and just because MVP has "viable product" in the name doesn't mean you should be pushing it out to users yet! I'm sure when they finally go to add a search feature or some other chunk of functionality, they'll discover that something about how they built their MVP is not optimal, but now it can't be changed as easily because everything's already gone live. And the code will turn into a pile of spaghetti as they keep having to code around early decisions that are now difficult to change.

[@linzonn]

They've had the 'games' feature on KZbin since April as a 'beta feature' for premium accounts. The only difference I've noticed since then is that they added the absolute garbage games 😅

[@zeph0shade]

I think somehow my previous reply got automoderated, but apparently you continue to get notifications for other replies even when your own is gone. So that's interesting.

[@wilsonalberto8459]

some google exec saw amazon and netflix forming game studios and decided YT should do the same, but the person in charge forgot about it, and these are the last minute, eve of deadline games that person frantically/desperately licensed so that there would be something "playable" there.

[@JH-cp8wf]

If you want a vision of the future, imagine Emma Thorne monotonously saying "I'm 30% of a baby" over and over while disembodied voices cheer her on with near-hysteria - forever.

[@harbingerdawn]

Just as Orwell predicted!

[@jenniferkorf4767]

Big Emma is watching

[@megatronjenkins2473]

12:23 at work, listening on my earpods, suddenly: "Shave me!!!" My mind went SEVERAL different directions.

[@WhiteScorpio2]

The two cats from the boba game are dating and you can't tell me otherwise.

[@Rob_Thorsman]

The ghosts are in a polycule.

[@evamarias8896]

I know the black cat is from the Halloween google doodle series (it was so good they made multiple doodle games for it) the ghosts are from the same game (you are a wizard cat fending off the ghosts). But the other cat I don’t know! If someone knows where that cat is from please share. Because gosh seeing those two together was very cute and I wonder if the Google doodle characters have lore too them lol.

[@HollowM0th]

⁠@@evamarias8896the other cat is Lucky, the main/player character from the Doodle Champion Island Games!! its my favorite google doodle, the pixel art is very nice and i think they got an actual studio to animate the cutscenes which look REALLY good. the minigames are all fun and theres even extra quests to do, and a fun little surprise if you get every trophy. Oh, and there’s also more challenging versions of the games which i think you have to do certain things to unlock.

[@chiefbeef1003]

This is honestly the modern equivalent of the games you'd see in those bootleg 101-in-1 handheld devices. But they're on the front page of one of the most popular websites on the internet. The fact that several of them don't even have sound is mind boggling.

[@fluffskunk]

Whoever made the art for the boba game deserves all the good things in the world.

[@BuddyBouncer]

Fun fact: KZbin does not accept Google Pay as a payment option (despite Google owning KZbin)

[@yeeyeeyeeye]

It accepted my Google pay as a payment option, so I don't know if that was a glitch or something

[@BuddyBouncer]

@yeeyeeyeeye I had to let my YT premium lapse because I needed my debit card re-issued, and was unable to utilize my Google wallet (and subsequent temporary digital card) to renew or submit a new payment. Even speaking directly with YT support, they weren't able to authorize the charge, despite me being the account holder on both ends. I can understand the "account security" argument to an extent, but it blows my mind that they didn't want my $15 when I was actively trying to give it to them.

[@ObstinateSparrow]

These games would have bored me to tears when I was three. I've been seeing these on KZbin lately; they looked bad but I had no idea they were THIS bad.

[@fepeerreview3150]

1:18 That's right. Glued to the screen 24-7. We really need to make it a point not to fall into that trap, because it is a trap. Time spent here is time not spent elsewhere where we can actually improve our own lives and make the world a better place for others. That said, I have every intention of never missing an Emma Thorne video.

[@terryjwood]

I love it when she says "cheeky". It makes me feel like I'm in the UK. A lot of these games my 4 year old daughter would love. I got "Perfect Pet Shop" at the library and she really enjoyed grooming, feeding and washing the dogs and cats. It pretty much just required you to move the mouse up and down.

[@jakemf9771]

36:50 those are characters from the Google Seasonal Games!! I played those ones a lot in school!

[@Ian_Jules]

I look forward to the Saturday uploads. Always happy to play Dante to Emma’s Virgil, as she guides us through the 9 circles of cyber hell.

[@avieron]

Why did it take me 10 seconds to realise you meant the one from Dante's inferno?

[@chriswest6988]

​@@avieronI think it's because of the video game context of the video. It happened to me for a sec too until I realized Virgil was spelled normally.

[@sleepytime999998]

Taking Raid money and using it to tell people not to play underdeveloped overmonetized shovelware: Emma, you're a fucking hero.

[@dariialysiuk8787]

I'm 99.9% sure that the boba game was a Google doodle for international boba day or something, so you could play it on the main page. Which would explain why it's so short and also not made for three-year-olds only 😅

[@rjpete66]

Why do these feel like they have all been written by a low budget AI?

[@MeatballSandwich-s6d]

I think an important distinction needs to be made. KZbin games don't have any ads... YET. But you better believe that KZbin is foaming at the mouth imagining all the ad revenue they'll be making on these games soon.

[@GoldieDoggy]

Yeah, it'll end up being just like the original mobile versions, most of which are PACKED with ads

[@clashcityrocker14]

Honestly, I liked these as I finally got to play the rubbish-looking games I see advertised and scratch that itch without having to download them!

[@Solinaru]

The part I love about these KZbin playables is that they're the same slop games that you would find in the app store without the ads. Rhanks to YT playables, i finally got to play these slop games to get my fill and not have to think sbout them ever again.

[@GoldieDoggy]

Yes! I get to play voodoo games without the constant ads, lol. It's great, for now. Sometimes you just need to turn your brain off

[@teqrevisited]

We've gone through the bottom of the barrel and are mining with misattributed haste towards the center of the earth when it comes to the worst dreck imaginable in the world of games.

[@Phizzy]

I was very upset every time I saw Attack Hole on screen and you didn't click on it. That's my favourite game. I love the gun robot he's sexy

[@crimsonmoon8649]

You know, I don't believe in hell, but if it existed, it would look just like this

[@CraigJudd]

Recently watched a Factually video where someone explained that tech companies are adding random stuff like short-form videos and games to every platform not to improve the customer experience, but to signal to investors and The Market that they are engaged in Infinite Growth by constantly adding new stuff.

[@DrElementary]

Looking forward to the Silly Little Guy playable! Wherein you can be a silly little guy.

[@jenniferkorf4767]

A silly little lesbian tall guy run game, the crossover of the century

[@tedmich]

Emma! Wonderful to see/hear you! the KEY to being entertained by these games is to be 17:29

[@malusofficial]

They'll allow literal low-effort scams on the front page but will crack down on small creators listening to music that happens to be popular...capitalism is wild...

[@hazelr-5210]

Looks like a few of them are the google doodle games. Google sometimes makes games you can play when you click on the logo on a new tab. The boba one is one of those.

[@HereticalKitsune]

The cheering from that association game would make me stop playing within five seconds.

[@gLiTcH3d_sUnFL0w3R]

4:07 “Why is there so much balls in here” 😭😭

[@Alive_I_Guess]

Honestly, the only game that I saw which could be a game is the Magic Academy ones but ... those are Google's Halloween Doodles.

[@AnnaGlin]

Recognize the bubble tea game, it’s indeed a real game and was featured on (maybe made for?) a daily google page thingie! I like it it’s cute

[@etenby699]

No matter what mobile game you compare it to, you cannot make me play Raid:Shadow Legends. Still a great video.

[@TheToothless-666]

"This better be gay as shit, dude." Losing my mind... omg that was hilarious. "I'm not even convinced these are homos..." OMG My son thinks I'm insane right now, but that whole exchange is making me wheeze with joy.

[@nukeye6663]

The boba game is ripped from the Google Chrome Web games. Hence why it looks good. The frog in that game is the one from the Google Weather app 🐸

[@yeeyeeyeeye]

I don't care who the IRS sends in: I'm not playing KZbin Playables or Raid: Shadow Legends

[@capslock4604]

I am shamefully in too deep on the home designer game. I just like organizing things ;v; (The gameplay loop is like Unpacking, and when you earn points you can spend them t decorate your mansion.)

[@KentaObscuro]

It’s interesting seeing Emma get brainrot in real time. (I was playing Parking Jam while watching this)

[@ValerieTheBat]

28:39 Emma saying monkey made me smile

[@L_Train]

I've been waiting for someone I like to make a video on these things since I first saw them.

[@chrishirst671]

Well! I have been seeing these "playables" in my YT Premium for a few weeks and wondering if I should bother, but now, thanks to Emma's sacrifice, I know I can *ignore it completely* Thank You Emma.

[@alexwixom4599]

I like that I can play the extra stupid games I get ads for in my actually decent mobile games. They're occasionally fun conceptional games, but in the mini-game sense or getting ideas for new innovative ways to play. You gotta unlock the secrets of the appeal of cookie clickers, people are attracted for a reason.

[@linuxguy1199]

YT only makes money from engagement, the only purpose of these games is to create engagement, this is probably entirely targeted to children as an easy way to serve them ads. As a child is far more likely to click an ad then an adult, higher click through rates means higher revenue.

[@zacherybob]

KZbin's really out there trying to corner the unattended toddler attention economy.

[@fazergazer]

KZbin Playables ARE the cabinet nominations for P2025😂

[@ProedrosMeOnoma]

Not really relevant with the specific video but I really wanted to write a couple things. I discovered Emma a few days ago (thanks to a Kent Hovind response) and I am absolutely in love with her. Brilliant videos, good humor, love her voice and her laugh. I have never binge watched KZbin content before but Emma is like music in my ears. Plus, reading about her career outside of KZbin completely blew my mind. Well done Emma, keep being the silly lil' guy you are, we love you that way🥰 P.S. your skin looks amazing.

[@meangreanbean]

5:56 my first thought was "Sky" lol

[@CodeNameX001]

The funniest/saddest part is that even the "real" games here are messed up. They have a version of "Cut the Rope" with at least one game-breaking glitch.

[@RikardPeterson]

I searched the comments to see if anyone had mentioned CtR. It's a genuinely good little puzzle game. Such a shame to hear that this version of it is broken. (Not that I'd be playing it on YT anyway.)

[@isaac_marcus]

My assumption is that the endgame for Playables is to serve as like the "Subway Surfer Tiktok" format. You'll be able to have a video playing, and in a smaller window to the side have one of these games running. Tall Man Run is dumb as hell, but if you just want to do something while watching a video essay it's simple enough for that. They can serve you twice as many ads (once implemented) if you play a game while the video ad is running and the game ad while the video itself is running. Etc

[@the0neBoio]

Do you know the game "There is no game"? It's a point-and-click puzzle game that makes fun of different genres, there is a whole chapter about mobile games. I can imagine you'd like it.

[@StarlightEdith]

I love that game! Been around more than ten years haha. I remember playing it in the computer lab in like 2013

[@charleselmore4707]

For us old heads, KZbin Playables offer plenty of opportunities for diversion. I say “old heads” because I don’t think the younger generations are going to be that impressed; however, for those of us who who grew up with Atari 2600s and early PC games, there’s plenty here that will seem familiar and easy to learn - and with minimal commitment, you can jump in and out of these games whenever you like. I don’t see the downside.

[@thatgut2375]

These games remind me of the Kindle fire store in the kids section where they're all mostly simple, easy to make games, but lots of them also have sections that make kids ask *SO MANY QUESTIONS* about the things they see somewhere in the game

[@GoldieDoggy]

Some of them absolutely are games that would've or have come on kindles before, too! Like the 2D car "driving" game

[@bevishhh]

21:11 this is *exactly* like those little water games with the hoops or balls, and sticks or cups. And little buttons you pushed to make water jets that’s like, flooped the hoop/balls around. Except this is a sausage and a keyboard. They’re both super fun don’t get me wrong! I have two of the OG’s 😊

[@ghoul4692]

I think the boba game was actually one of those little games Google has on their home screen occasionally, which explains why it was only a minute long but also looked kind of nice lmao

[@ElectroCurmudgeon]

thankyou Ema. some of us are sad here and need you doing this great work. i never played mobile games and feel like i learned somthing here. that map game makes me sad. i did used to play solitaire back when it was first on phones but that was pretty much it. ( and snake) glad you played emoji puzzle. i was dying to know why a hamburger made a sick emoji. ha. yeah developer requirement does seems odd because those do seem like children's games. i am also outraged that daredevil is not a hero.

[@josephvarno5623]

Emma: *scrolls past game called attack hole* Me: Good choice. That one scares me, too.

[@CGFillertext]

Playables scratch the itch of wanting to try those kinds of mobile ad games for free

[@epilepticlown]

36:36 google doodles cat jumpscare

[@epilepticlown]

I forgor KZbin was Google's

[@demonEyeAccidentally]

Dude these things suck so hard, idk when you first saw them (it sounds like you've just seen them in the last month or so) but these crimes have been blasting my eyes with more colors than cocomelon since june-ish

[@kirbymasterdeluxe]

I recognize multiple of these games. They’re literally just mobile games you can get on the app stores of at least iphone, so probably Android too. They’re cheap and nondescript enough that KZbin can let them exist on the platform with little cost to them.

[@rustkitty]

This feels more like a regression than a sign of everything apps. There is probably a good reason no major social media platform has tried hosting browser games since Facebook.

[@foxzero99gaminglaptopadven60]

why are the google doodles there from this video i saw the magic cat academy (i am a fan of that one, there are 3, one is quite recent, although i only saw 1 and 2 there) and the boba tea one (this one was for a the time abt boba, fun thing is that there are alot of references, i dont know much abt google doodle but the references i know are with the 2 cats (the black one is forom the magic cat academy and the orange is from the challenge island one (it is prolly one of the longer google doodles)) and the ghost squad (an actual multiplayer google doodle where 2 teams compete in a round of ghost things i forgot, sadly it stopped working a long time ago))

[@astraynaught9343]

Screw tinder, I'm gonna find love in multiplayer youtube playables

[@betanick14]

I'm so used to people joking about being sponsored by raid Shadow Legends that when it happened it took me way too long to realize it was a real sponsor xD

[@ingenfare]

This is like early 2000s flash games. I suspect a lot of the old once will be retooled to work with this "platform",

[@KittycatKye]

Alien Hominid is a masterpiece compared to what KZbin Playables has to offer.

[@PogsInABlanket]

Emma is my favorite Tall Man Run let's player. I've been saying this to everyone for well over a year now, but I'm glad that we have hard evidence that I can back up my statement with.

[@sadboiinasweater6104]

The only good thing about playables is that it has the magic cat academy trilogy archived on it.

[@viodre6652]

35:11 Random fun fact about this game, it was a google doodle awhile ago, and has references to pther google doodles and services, for ex. The frog is their weather mascot, the two cats have had their own games which are actually pretty solid, and the four ghosts at the end also have their own Halloween game.

[@DevareayWilliams]

The donut "OF" is for Odd Future, short for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Em All. It was a rap collective that Tyler the Creator started in the early 2010's. They've since disbanded. Frank Ocean was a part of the group, as was Lionel, who had a major role in the tv show "The Bear".

[@CutoutClips]

I can confirm that the other people in "Guess Their Answer" are not actually real people. It's a single player game designed to make you think it's multiplayer. You can even turn off your wifi after the game is loaded and it will play just like before, so clearly you're not connecting with anyone else.

[@megamovieman101]

Kind of in love with the way she just started singing “I wanna be like you” during the Raid sponsor

[@codatheseus5060]

remember when all of our moms thought making these could make us rich?

[@stevenredpath9332]

These look like the opening scenes that are meant to get you hooked and they are failing. 😂

[@Deception975]

Shame you didn't try out Stealth Master. I've played it on my phone before. It's actually not too bad. It's a top down shooter, with different weapons and characters to choose from. It's probably the one that is most like a real game out of the whole selection.

[@literalcupoftea6299]

this feels like its from an alterative universe at some times. like you actually like these games and all you do is stream in.

[@Hideotronic]

Doing an ad for a mobile game on KZbin inside a video critiquing KZbin mobile games is a bit of a flex 😎

[@mightyone3737]

It's wonderful that people could make great games like Pokemon for the original Gameboy, yet we can't make fun games for our phones. Cool beans, you know? I used to play a lot of solitaire, if you played it with the Vegas rules and do draw 3 it's actually lowkey amazing. My mum was good enough at it that she could pretty easily break even, I was less skilled. I was amused to find out that my mother's mum played so much solitaire she wore out a deck of cards, like the most worn down deck of all time.

[@GoldieDoggy]

There are many fun games for phones, though??? And versions of computer games FOR your phone. Pokemon Go for all ages. Animal Jam Play Wild! For kids and teens (although some of us adults do play it for the nostalgia). School of Dragons used to be another one available on phones. The original versions of the Angry Birds, Where's my Water?, Epic Stick man, Temple Run, and other games. Heck, Hogwarts Mystery isn't that bad of a game, even for F2P people. There are literally SO MANY good, fun games for phones. You, apparently, just haven't looked too well if all you're finding is boring games.

[@jkelly2110]

I love this. I would watch you narrate and play that sticker game and make jokes for hours

[@tergish1]

KZbin playable certainly has some of the games of all time. (Cut the rope is still pretty good though)

[@DoctorBiobrain]

As a tall man who runs I just wanted to say that this game is exactly like my regular life.

[@Weeperflower]

35:12 Thats a google doodle (googles official mostly good game collection) which is why its good

[@Heaven_Can_Wait]

Everyday we stray further from god. (Not that I believe in one, but still )

[@brycevining4500]

God gave up on us and just stopped existing.

[@Mokey_MokeyLordofPuns]

Maybe if we stay far enough we'll find a new one