Games on Substack
The top 100 Games writers on Substack's Bestsellers and Rising boards, with moves between my reads, follower counts, who's gaining recommendations and who recommends them. Boards read once a day.
Board read · moves compare with the read at Oct 31 19:47 UTC
- Writers on the two boards
- 102
- Median followers, Bestsellers
- 3,129
- Smallest on the board
- 14
- Tim Rattray, #36
- New recommendations, 30 days
- 88
- to writers whose main category this is
Rising in Games: new recommendations
Writers in this category who picked up the most new recommenders in the last 30 days. A new recommendation puts a writer in front of another publication's readers.
Ben Milton
27k followers · #15 Games Bestsellers
Gamigion
4.7k followers · #7 Games Bestsellers
Christopher Dring
13k followers · #6 Games Bestsellers
Brian Schneider
2.4k followers · #40 Games Bestsellers
Chris McDowall
9k followers · #68 Games Rising
Jornal dos Jogos
8.3k followers · #52 Games Rising
Harrison Polites
1.3k followers · #45 Games BestsellersNew recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live.
Bestsellers
Substack ranks Bestsellers by paid subscribers. Followers are my daily reading.
Climbed most since Oct 31: Dmitriy Byshonkov #16 to #14, Justin Gary #21 to #19, Jay Rooney #32 to #31, Pam Walls #39 to #38, Harrison Polites #46 to #45.
| # | Move | Writer | Followers | Recommended by | Paid | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |  Simon CarlessThe GameDiscoverCo newsletter |
55,827 | 69 +3 | Thousands | |
| 2 | 0 |  Stephen TotiloGame File |
30,405 | 61 +2 | Thousands | |
| 3 | 0 |  Matej LancaricBrutally Honest by Matej Lancaric |
18,856 | 55 +2 | 100+ badge | |
| 4 | 0 |  Jiří Bigas@jiribigas |
2,872 | 25 +1 | 100+ badge | |
| 5 | 0 |  Patrick KlepekCrossplay |
16,165 | 58 | 100+ badge | |
| 6 | 0 |  Christopher DringThe Game Business |
13,252 | 56 +4 | 100+ badge | |
| 7 | 0 |  GamigionMobile Gaming Today |
4,733 | 30 +5 | none shown | |
| 8 | 0 |  Joost van DreunenSuperJoost Playlist |
24,143 | 60 +2 | 100+ badge | |
| 9 | 0 |  CORECORE: About Them Video Games |
2,055 | 4 | none shown | |
| 10 | 0 |  NextBigGames by Vamsi PenmetsaNextBigGames |
3,596 | 20 | none shown | |
| 11 | 0 |  George E. OsbornVideo Games Industry Memo |
8,287 | 54 +1 | 100+ badge | |
| 12 | 0 |  Casinos Hate Winners@casinoshatewinners |
1,950 | 11 | none shown | |
| 13 | 0 |  Santa Pazienza@santapazienzanewsletter |
2,888 | 42 +1 | none shown | |
| 14 | ▲2 |  Dmitriy ByshonkovGameDev Reports - powered by Mellow |
10,330 | 55 +2 | none shown | |
| 15 | ▼1 |  Ben MiltonThe Glatisant: A Questing Beast Newsletter |
26,795 | 53 +5 | none shown | |
| 16 | ▼1 |  TheGamerEducator-Screens& kids@thegamereducator |
5,311 | 14 +1 | none shown | |
| 17 | 0 |  Paul LefebvreGoto 10 |
6,573 | 51 | none shown | |
| 18 | 0 |  Jonathan Beckett@jonbeckett |
1,949 | 26 +1 | none shown | |
| 19 | ▲2 |  Justin GaryThink Like A Game Designer |
39,738 | 51 +2 | none shown | |
| 20 | 0 |  LukeLudological Alchemy |
1,834 | 19 | none shown | |
| 21 | ▼2 |  mobilegamer.bizThe mobilegamer.biz newsletter |
14,588 | 53 +2 | none shown | |
| 22 | 0 |  Dalton PerrineChess Chatter |
1,480 | 20 | none shown | |
| 23 | 0 |  Jennifer ShahadeSee the Sideways Move |
18,009 | 41 +1 | none shown | |
| 24 | 0 |  Jake SteinbergJake Should Be Writing |
1,230 | 10 +1 | none shown | |
| 25 | 0 |  MurkdiceMurkMail |
4,434 | 50 +2 | none shown | |
| 26 | 0 |  InvestGame@investgame |
4,591 | 5 +2 | none shown | |
| 27 | 0 |  Tony WonPlayer Support |
360 | 2 | none shown | |
| 28 | 0 |  Hushcrasher@hushcrasher |
1,332 | 10 | none shown | |
| 29 | 0 |  Junta IkedaInfinite Chess |
3,129 | 42 +1 | none shown | |
| 30 | 0 |  The Video Game LibraryThe Video Game Library’s Substack |
8,303 | 42 +1 | none shown | |
| 31 | ▲1 |  Jay RooneyGame & Word |
2,022 | 33 +2 | none shown | |
| 32 | ▼1 |  Patrick BuechnerThe Soloist - an indie RPG newsletter |
12,845 | 52 +2 | none shown | |
| 33 | 0 |  James M. SpahnJames M. Spahn's RPG Musings |
1,450 | 27 | none shown | |
| 34 | 0 |  Carlos PereiraMobile Game Daily Report |
383 | 2 | none shown | |
| 35 | 0 |  Rose BeharNarrative News |
1,860 | 29 | none shown | |
| 36 | 0 |  Tim RattrayStay Awhile and Play |
14 | 1 | none shown | |
| 37 | 0 |  LucasHistoria Realis |
3,515 | 14 | none shown | |
| 38 | ▲1 |  Pam WallsPam Walls Game Design Substack |
1,039 | 8 | none shown | |
| 39 | ▼1 |  Xania LasagnaUncrank'd Magazine |
136 | 2 | none shown | |
| 40 | 0 |  Brian SchneiderAlternate Worlds |
2,440 | 36 +4 | none shown | |
| 41 | 0 |  Yorch Torch GamesThe Forge |
908 | 13 | none shown | |
| 42 | 0 |  The Video Game Storyteller@thevideogamestoryteller |
2,915 | 50 +6 | none shown | |
| 43 | 0 |  Dave ThaumavoreThaumavoria |
9,083 | 52 +2 | none shown | |
| 44 | 0 |  God Gamer@gitgodlygud |
248 | 1 +1 | none shown | |
| 45 | 0 |  Harrison PolitesInfinite Lives |
1,310 | 50 +3 | none shown | |
| 46 | 0 |  Massimiliano Di MarcoInsert Coin |
1,436 | 50 | none shown |
The top 20 on every read
Rank on each read of the Bestsellers board. Darker is higher. A gap means the writer was outside the top 100 on that read.
| Writer | Oct 3107:00 | Oct 3113:00 | Oct 3119:47 | Nov 621:50 | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Carless | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Stephen Totilo | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Matej Lancaric | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Jiří Bigas | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Patrick Klepek | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Christopher Dring | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Gamigion | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Joost van Dreunen | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| CORE | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| NextBigGames by Vamsi Penmetsa | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| George E. Osborn | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| Casinos Hate Winners | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| Santa Pazienza | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| Dmitriy Byshonkov | 16 | 16 | 16 | 14 | ▲2 |
| Ben Milton | 14 | 14 | 14 | 15 | ▼1 |
| TheGamerEducator-Screens& kids | 15 | 15 | 15 | 16 | ▼1 |
| Paul Lefebvre | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 0 |
| Jonathan Beckett | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 0 |
| Justin Gary | 21 | 21 | 21 | 19 | ▲2 |
| Luke | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 |
History starts on Oct 31, 2026. Each day adds a column.
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