This guide will teach you what you need to record high-quality Let's Play gaming videos, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to record and edit them.

Your first step in creating a Let’s Play video is an obvious one: choosing the right game to record. If you’re making your gaming video for fun and to share with a few others, you’ll probably choose your favorite games. However, if you’re planning on monetizing your videos, you’ll want to think about which games will grab attention and attract an audience.

The games you play yourself should be visually interesting in some way, even if it's because of the terrible graphics, for example. You want to avoid games that are very repetitive, because that can bore your viewers.

Extremely popular games have a lot of videos dedicated to them on YouTube, to the point that YouTube is saturated with them. New gameplay videos of Minecraft, for example, are going to have a very hard time getting noticed for two reasons. First, your Minecraft video has competition from thousands, if not tens of thousands (or even more) of other Minecraft videos out there. It’s very hard to get noticed in this sea of videos.