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Hey everyone.

Quick note: Thank you for being so kind and accepting on the last Silksong video. It was nice to know I can be myself and share my experience and still be accepted as a ratty brat, thank you! In all seriousness I was genuinely touched and I really appreciate it. 

I wanted to give an update on what to expect for next year. If you'd rather be surprised or go with the flow then skip this post. I like to do “one game one video” sometimes and I think the list I will pick from will be the following: 

SOMA (potential long-play)

Journey 

Inside 

Return of the Obra Dinn (potential long-play) 

Still Wakes the Deep 

Others may be added later. 

I am going to do some supercuts to give me a bit of breathing room for recording, especially in January, which will probably be a slow month for uploads. I am going to have an ongoing as-and-when series when the channel has a break, I have chosen Minecraft for now. These could end up being chill streams in the end, but I wanted something light to pick up and put down if necessary. This will probably start in January. Ideally, I would like to avoid disappearing for months at a time again, but also ofc I am trying to avoid burn out! Minecraft episodes to chill with in-between series is what I have come up with!

I will revisit Resident Evil with the first game and Resident Evil 2 Remake (Claire A). Side note, what version of Resident Evil 1 do I play?!

I'd like to revisit Resident Evil 7 and 8, we will see. I played those on stream years ago and it would be nice to have a recorded let's play for the channel! Resident Evil 9: I don't think I will play it on release, but of course I will at some point in the future.

I am also interested in BB PSX Demake, I thought it would be fun. I will play Dark Souls 3. Most likely late Spring/Summer. Does anyone have any lore video suggestions to jog my memory on Dark Souls? 

I will finish Arkham City ofc and potentially start Arkham Knight. I'm considering keeping Arkham City/Knight on Patreon, depending on energy and interest but I'll see how it feels.

That's all I have planned for now.Thank you so much for sticking with me during what's been the worst year of my life. I cannot go into details because much of it is very private and sensitive. You have kept me going through funny & lovely comments, keeping me company through games & streams - thank you.I'll see you with Silksong soon (side note, and place-name spoiler, I had a scare where I LOST MY SAVE FILES, NOT KIDDING. I got them back, but there were a few hours where I thought I was going to have to climb Mount Fay again and it wasn't pretty lol).

Comments

David Smith

I’m so SO excited to see you play Journey. It’s such a lovely experience

Thomas

Obra Dinn was great. Also, I was thinking something. You'd mentioned at some point that you intentionally stopped talking about your time in game dev/environmental art because some folks are terrible about it. What if you did discussions about that here in a place where people are less likely to be awful about it? Even if it's not necessarily within a playthrough but discussions about how certain things may have been made or inspired by or your process or whatever. Just a thought because I am always interested in people's creative process.

Unraveling the Pattern

I'm so hopeful that you'll keep playing the Arkham games. I resubbed to Patreon just for those. But I'm loving all of your other ideas. I look forward to Journey and Inside and Dark Souls 3 especially! Keep up the great work and thanks for the update. Please don't burn yourself out! I also didn't say anything before, but I really appreciate how real you are with Silksong. I have had all of the same thoughts as you. I appreciate your content because you are real! Thanks for being awesome!

Oscar Ramos

I hope the next year treats you more kindly 🙏 Also the PC port of RE Remake is very good and I would love to see you play it!

l.h. riley

Thanks for the update! For Resident Evil, you probably want the remake unless you want to play the PS1 version. There is an original version on PC as well, but that would require some mods to play. The Steam version is still a good option: https://store.steampowered.com/app/304240/Resident_Evil/ Feel free to skip Arkham City... It kinda loses the plot. I hope next year is better for all of us. 2025 has been an absolute shit show 💩

diego villacres

Keep being great Amber! We will always be with you through the ups and downs. Also for RE1 i would suggest you play the remake if youre going to pick one.

Ozymandias

Return of the Obra Dinn is one of my favorite games, really excited to see you try it out! Also glad you're keeping Batman going, your playthroughs have been so fun to watch. Looking forward to that + Dark Souls 3 whenever you get to it. I can commiserate with the feeling on 2025. Your streams + videos have helped many of us in the community as well. Here's to next year being better for us all!

Chris Dewing

With regards to the Arkham games, and it obviously depends on how you feel about City to a certain extent, but Origins is given too much of a bad wrap because it wasn't made by Rocksteady. Gameplay wise it's a step below the others, but its story is great (and fully canon) and really helps fill out the world that you'd experience with City and Knight.

Allen

You and your videos/streams were there for me during some rough years in my life, so I'm glad our presence helped you this year. I very much hope 2026 is better for you 💛

LooseSeal

My only suggestion is that with regards to the Arkham games, you should play Origins after City, then Knight

Jwhiteshirt

Amazing! Excited for 2026 - lots of great games! For Resident Evil, I recommend the 2015 HD Remaster (Remake) on Steam/PC. I'm a huge Resident Evil fan, and though I'd love for you to start at the OG Resident Evil for the PS1, it'd be pretty weird if that were the only non-remake on your channel. (Side note / watch-out: the HD remaster added a new difficulty 'Very Easy', so picking the middle option is Easy, and the 3rd option is Normal; the difficulty selection is weird.)

Ed Myers

Some great games there, Amber. I think you'll have a good time playing them. I hope things look up and 2026 turns out to be a much better year for you personally. Take care

Kristján Guðmundsson

Really enjoying your play throughs. Discovered your channel while searching for Silksong let’s plays having played it myself. Yours was the best by far! I really enjoyed your attention to details and speculation on lore and plot. I noticed that you were much better that me at the game even thou I did eventually manage to finish the game. After that I planned on doing playing Clair Obscure and was happy to see that you had a let’s play on it. Suffice to say your videos on the game have been very entertaining and have brought a tear or two to my eyes. Also it was great to hear about my native Iceland and Svörtusandar in Hella I believe. Keep on going Amber, you rock!

Marcel Génetay

Thank YOU Amber for the content you’ve given us this past year (and all the other years before). Being able to relive some of the greatest games I’ve ever played fresh through your eyes is always amazing. In the stress and chaos that is working part-time, studying, and raising a family, your videos are a much needed break for me. Often relaxing, always entertaining. Even when you think you’re not, I still always find you insightful in your commentary and great fun to watch. I’m so sorry to hear of 2025 being such a shitty year for you. Soon it’ll be 2026; here’s hoping for a much better year for you when it comes around in less than a month’s time. Can’t wait for more Batman. I’d personally recommend playing Arkham Origins in between City and Knight, even if it’s not part of the Rocksteady trilogy. That’s its place in the release order, and it’s a lovely little game in its own right. Well, thank heavens that nothing happened to your save file, that must’ve been scary indeed! I had a real struggle with Mount Fay too and would’ve probably put the game down for a few months if I had to redo it immediately after. 😬 Some chill Minecraft videos or streams sounds delightful too!

Marcel Génetay

I second this, I’d love to hear more here too.

Ruminations

Oh my goodness, Return of the Obra Dinn! That's one of my favorite games of all time! Very much encourage you to check that one out, it has a similar feel to its puzzles that Outer Wilds has, and it one of the few games I've ever played that has the same sense of discovery that you feel from Outer Wilds.

Capt Doug

SOMA mentioned! And still wakes the deep! Big hype! So much to look forward to! Despite you not having the best year the content has been amazing and can’t thank you enough for all the hard work and powering through you do to provide that content! Forever greatful! Excited for the future and hope next year will be much better for you as well!

DrGravity

I'm sorry 2025 sounds like it's, well, fucking sucked quite frankly but glad you've found some solace through comments and streams. Keep being as kind as you can to yourself! Loving the Arkham playthroughs by the way so I hope you do end up playing Knight (maybe Origins as well if you're feeling it) and you should definitely play the remake for RE1!

A Former Newt

I'm loving your Arkham videos so very happy to hear they'll be continuing, Arkham Origins isn't of the same calibre as the Rocksteady trilogy but I think it would at least be worth trying and see if you enjoy it. Return of the Obra Dinn is brilliant so looking forward to seeing that, I find you can't really play it again once you've finished it but watching someone's first playthrough is close in terms of enjoyment. In terms of lore videos for Dark Souls I would recommend Vaatividya, I know some people have issues with his interpretations and not always crediting other researchers but his videos are typically well reasoned and cover most areas of interest. I'm sure someone's commented about the Dark Souls 1 videos you watched but the reason there were some spoilers was because you were watching the Remastered videos, which came out after the trilogy was finished. You can still watch his original DS1 videos if you want a refresh, just accept a lower quality than what we get now. I didn't see any lore video watched after DS2 so they'd also be worth watching. Miss Chalice has also done a few videos on Dark Souls 2 that could be worth watching if you want someone else's perspective, she did 'I'm bad at video games so I played Dark Souls 2' which is a narration/summary of her playthrough and she's released 2 other videos analysing Aldia and how DS2 is about love stories. There is also the Happy Souls video which is a comedic animation covering a co-op playthrough of DS2 which is worth a watch. My ramble is now over... ... probably... ...for now

solifis

Love all your plans as ideas, will be great to follow you more through 2026! Let's leave this crap of a year behind and work on a better one going forward, always here to support and rise your spirit! All the love to you, Amber! ❤️

mattbrush3pwood

Well I hope 2026 somehow turns out to be the best year instead, because you fucking deserve it! Thank you for what you do. These videos provide a nice little distraction at times and it's great to connect with others over shared passions and interests. I'm here for your unique brand of fun entertainment whatever the game, but a potential Obra Dinn playthrough sounds hype! Looking forward to what next year brings.

Annemarie

Obra Dinn yay! I would love to see you play that. I’m sorry your year has been so shit, and I hope things improve for you. Fun fact: my silly YouTube wrapped thing says I’m in your top 0.2% of viewers so you’re welcome. 😌

Andrew LaValley

Glad to hear the community supported you even though you felt frustrated in the last video. The top of mt fay and double jump as a reward is great. Inside is pretty fun and it would be cool to watch you play. Return of the obra dinn is also cool, just very puzzly.

CrwTheWanderer

I think everything you have said is a great idea and I am excited for what you have to offer! Especially the BB demake. For lore videos, didn't you make a video where you watched Vaati Vidya? Maybe just watch that one again? Also, glad you're making it through this difficult time intact, if not unscathed, and I hope the year to come is kinder to you

Ellie Longfellow

Everything on your one-game-one-vid list makes me SO excited. Love ALL those games, esp Inside, Obra Dinn, and Still Wakes the Deep (never finished playing thru Soma since the gameplay can be crunchy, but it's great to watch a playthru of imo)

Julian

There isn't a single thing in this post that doesn't get me excited! 😄 So glad to know everyone is so kind and accepting and helps you get through. It's the lest we can try and do. As for the games -- they're all such good picks, I don't know how anyone could decide which one to do first. The BB demake is such an cool idea! With Resi 1, I would say the remake version, personally, but not for any reason other than it's the version I played 🤷‍♂️ And so sorry about the year, you deserve and are worth better. And I hope very much this next one or dozen are infinitely better! The silksong thing is funny because I had the same issue with a game I was playing just the other day. Lost a whole hour and a half of save data for some unknown reason (I still feel the pain). Can't imagine what it would've been like for Silksong

AndresSM

This is great! I'm so excited for the "one game one video" part. Those are my favorites videos of yours. Hope you have a great year Amber.

ChilledGricken

im so sorry that your year was so terrible, but you've been such a trooper seeing it through and still finding the motivation to make videos. looking forward to whatever you decide to do! thank you so much for all your hard work

aran

INSIDE is very good, but may I suggest LIMBO instead or first? It's an earlier game by the same dev, with similar runtime and gameplay, and is just as good, maybe better, with an art style closer to Hollow Knight which I think you'd appreciate more. I searched but couldn't find that you had played it, apologies if I'm wrong. Also, if you haven't played BRAID, it's an incredibly cute and fun puzzle platformer that would make a great one-shot. Having now watched the latest Silksong video, I understand why you were in such bad spirits. (Mild non-story spoiler) Hopefully you have or will hunt around for more health upgrades because you should be able to get at least a couple more masks' worth with double jump, and a few more tools that made things easier for me (though I was also a dice addict, lol) Sorry to hear that the series isn't doing well on YT, I won't pretend to have advice on how to make a living as an LPer, but others are probably right about the saturated market. As for Patreon, I'm on your top tier and honestly, would pay more to support you and I'm sure others would too, whether or not there's extra benefits. Just consider adding a $10 tier!

Chris DePrisco

Not gonna lie, the Minecraft has me the most excited, lol. In large part because I haven't heard of the others. Leave me alone, I'm old and out of touch! (it would seem) Cozy Minecraft maybe-streams!

Joe Leary

Amber, SOMA is *epic*, you would love it. Only takes a few hours to complete and just knowing the kind of things you vibe with in a game, you would love how deep and trippy the story gets in such a short space of time. Very easy to play in a couple of sessions and easy to edit too, would love to see you play it. Obra Dinn is also one of my favourite games of all time, if you liked outer wilds you would adore it Sorry your year hasn't been the best, you have a community here who really love you and just wish the best for you 🙏 hope 2026 is a better one for you

resonatrium

2026 is looking up already with these picks! Minecraft is good escapism, since nothing is really demanded of you beyond your own drive to create. Maybe you can build a canonical "Symbalily's Meadow" to call your own. I think out of the other games, I've only played one, but that gives me a good push to finally try out the others. See you next year, and I hope each year from now on is better than the last for you. With how low a point this year has been, that doesn't seem like much to ask for.

G. Gringle

Truly enjoyed your videos this year. Valve classics, Simpsons nostalgia, CLOBS's tragic beauty, Silksong suffering, Batman’s thing for butts, and that trio of one‑offs (Thank Goodness…, Before Your Eyes, Unpacking) that had me laughing, choking up, and reflecting. Journey on your upcoming list is a beautiful experience, and Bloodborne PSX looks cool (I love seeing how demakes reimagine things). PSX Resident Evil 1 has legendary so‑bad‑it’s‑good voice acting/localization, but the GameCube remake/HD remaster is the definitive version. Excited to see wherever you take things next, and grateful you shared yourself with us through such a tough year. I’m glad the community has helped things feel a little lighter at times, and I really hope things turn in a better direction for you soon. Also: thank goodness you got your save files back! Damn that would've been some undeserved punishment on top of punishment.

atropos148

That "one video" list of games is exciting to see, all of those are great :) I especially want to see what you think of Obbra Dinn. I am playing thru Arkham Knight right now, the story is so much darker and depressing than the other 2 games. Definitely leave that one for later. Also Amber please always put your health first, don't worry about how often you release videos. You are the priority here, so do whatever you need to avoid burnout :)

Stefan

What good is a channel for if not being yourself? Looking forward to next year, something for everyone in there 😁

Ian Eborn

Ooh, I'm excited to see you play Obra Dinn! And—tentatively, as you've have negative experiences before—to see you play Dark Souls 3; your Souls-series let's plays were always a favourite of mine! ^_^ I'll admit that I had to check the comments to see what "BB" was—but if it is indeed the Bloodborne demake, then I am intrigued to see that! As to current stuff, let me say that I am rather enjoying the Batman playthrough! And only the more so, I daresay, because you seem to be having a blast with it! (At least as far as I've yet gotten—I am behind, I will admit! ^^; ) Otherwise, have a wonderful new year: I hope that it treats you much more gently than the last, and brings you much joy! ^_^

Rei

I'm super excited for your "one game one video" list! One of my favorite playthroughs you've done is a short hike! :) Another short game I think you will love is Gris. It's hand drawn and has such a beautiful story too. Also I can't wait for your Minecraft videos!

Huib Gelling

Sounds like a great plan, looking forward to it all! :D Sorry about your terrible year :( Hope things will get better soon and take all the time you need 🧡 I’ve heard the Resident Evil Remake (for Gamecube?) is very well regarded. I believe the Bloodborne Demake was taken down, wasn’t it? :/ Or was that just Nightmare Kart?

Trolez

Looks like 2026 will be an exciting your of gaming on the channel! I also hope 2026 will be better for you in the non-gaming parts.

Ben Wittmann

Would love to watch a play through of Journey. I've always wanted to play it but never seem to find the time, watching you play it would be the next best thing.

Neil Hanson

I hope you play SOMA sometime. That game is absolutely amazing.

hermitek

I'm not a fan of locking whole long game playthroughs behind a paywall. It takes a lot of effort on your part to make them, while too few people will see them. It also alienates not paying viewers who will feel pressured to pay in order to watch more stuff they enjoyed. If you want to reward your patreon members in another way (I think feeling of supporting the creator I enjoy watching is rewarding enough on its own) you can for example record videos of the extra challenges which are in the Arkham games: they are totally non essential, give you some practice for the main story part of game and are quite enjoyable on its own.

BexNeko

Looking forward to seeing you play Journey :) It was part of a trio of games (along with Gris, and HK) I played after I finished my PhD, and got me back into gaming (Rayman 2 was the last game I played to completion)

Flukemarm

I've been too grumpy for comments or gaming but your frustrated episode of Silksong motivated me to pick it up after a month away. VERY excited for the games on your list and for whatever you have planned

octopus for good

So excited to see Return of the Obra Dinn on this list. My chief complaint with that game is that it makes me want an entire series of sequels, literal or spiritual, to already exist.

LoZander

Sounds like a great plan! Some exciting games on those lists for sure :) I'm really sorry that the years been terrible. I hope 2026 brings much better things. I'm glad you've at least gotten some positive support from the community <3

Michal Krátky

You come across as really mature and resilient, so if this was the worst year of your life, I can only imagine how rough it’s been. Thank you for trusting us with what you could share. From my experience, the meaning of rough times is only apparent in retrospect — kind of like climbing Mount Fay. Take care of yourself and don’t lose heart. You’ve got this, and we’ll be here.