Neal Hallford

@nealhallford · The Many Worlds of Neal Hallford · Substack profile · Games

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Neal Hallford has 217 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #62 on Substack's Games Rising board. 3 publications recommend them, and they recommend 3.

Followers read 7 days ago · Boards read 2 h ago

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers: 217; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: not shown; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: none shown
Recommended by: 3; none new in 30 days
Recommends: 3
Bestsellers rank: none; Rising #62, Games

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Neal Hallford on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	217

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Games Rising	#62	#23	4 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
Writer	Oct 3107:00	Oct 3113:00	Oct 3119:47	Nov 621:50	Move
Games Rising	23	31	31	62	▼39

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

3 publications recommend Neal Hallford. Neal Hallford recommends 3, and 2 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 3 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2022-08	1
2024-05	1
2024-09	1

Recommended by

Sherry’s Substackstarted Sep 2024
Big’s Substackstarted May 2024 · mutual
Notes From the Mountainstarted Aug 2022 · mutual

Recommends

Tim Powers1.6k followers · started Aug 2025
Big’s Substackstarted Aug 2025 · mutual
Notes From the Mountainstarted Jul 2022 · mutual

Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other Games writers with under 1,000 followers (47 writers in that group), but not Neal Hallford.

The Intellectual Investor
recommends 16 of them
Reconnect Recap
recommends 5 of them
Gamedev Relay
recommends 4 of them
Jogos a se Julgar
recommends 4 of them
Jim Mander@jmander
recommends 3 of them
Game Music Analysis Club
recommends 3 of them
Margot Plays Video Games
recommends 3 of them
The Learning Arcade
recommends 3 of them
Jason Schweitz
recommends 3 of them
The Video Game Storyteller@thevideogamestoryteller
recommends 2 of them