Rising on Substack this week: Games

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

The Video Game Storyteller

2.9k followers · #42 Games Bestsellers

+6 in 30 days 50 in all

20 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Gamigion

4.7k followers · #7 Games Bestsellers

+5 in 30 days 30 in all

9 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Christopher Dring

13k followers · #6 Games Bestsellers

+4 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 56 in all

13 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Ben Milton

27k followers · #15 Games Bestsellers

+4 in 30 days 53 in all

10 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Brian Schneider

2.4k followers · #40 Games Bestsellers

+4 in 30 days 36 in all

13 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Harrison Polites

1.3k followers · #45 Games Bestsellers

+3 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 50 in all

9 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Lawrence 'Scanlines' Lichfield

920 followers · #55 Games Rising

+3 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 26 in all

6 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Simon Carless

56k followers · #1 Games Bestsellers

+3 in 30 days 69 in all

11 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Chris McDowall

9k followers · #68 Games Rising

+3 in 30 days 56 in all

11 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Jornal dos Jogos

8.3k followers · #52 Games Rising

+3 in 30 days 50 in all

4 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Dmitriy Byshonkov

10k followers · #14 Games Bestsellers

+2 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 55 in all

6 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Justin Gary

40k followers · #19 Games Bestsellers

+2 in 30 days 51 in all

4 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New 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.