Wicked Wizard

Subscribers 247K

Videos 65

Views 28.5M

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Wicked Wizard creates deep-dive video essays on games, focusing on why games fail, early access issues, unfinished designs, and comparisons to similar titles. The content style centers on analytical, long-form analyses (often around 20–30 minutes) with occasional longer explorations, and the channel posts with a cadence averaging about 0.2 uploads per week, yielding an average of roughly 457K views per video.

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Appearances 15

SERP 100%

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Both target audiences interested in game design quality and failures (queries like 'game design failures' and 'game design flaws'), with Wicked Wizard and Artindi sharing 100% overlap in search interest but Artindi's content focuses more on failures (75% content similarity) than Wicked Wizard's broader style.

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SERP 59%

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72% relevance

Subscribers 1.7M

Videos 230

Views 213.1M

Appearances 9

SERP 61%

Similarity 79%

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Joint focus on early access and horror/game critique topics (queries 'early access games', 'early access horror'), yielding notable content similarity (79%) and lower but meaningful search overlap (40%) indicating shared subject matter in a broadly similar style.

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Top competitors by match strength are Artindi (85% match) and MrSaviorHD (72% match), with Game Maker's Toolkit also at 72% match. They share overlapping queries such as game design failures, game design flaws, and dead/unfinished or early access games, which align with Wicked Wizard's focus on game development critique and early access concerns. Wicked Wizard has 247K subscribers, while Artindi has 78.7K and MrSaviorHD has 152K, making Wicked Wizard larger than Artindi but smaller than MrSaviorHD; Game Maker's Toolkit is much larger at 1.7M. The competition also includes KingWoolz Games (68% match) and kAN Gaming (66% match), who touch on topics like dinosaurs horror games and scrap mechanic/hello engineer topics, respectively.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Wicked Wizard?

Wicked Wizard's biggest YouTube competitors are Artindi (78.7K subscribers, 85% match), MrSaviorHD (152K subscribers, 72% match), and Game Maker's Toolkit (1.7M subscribers, 72% match). They share a focus on gaming and game analysis, with channels aligned to gaming content such as gameplay and game development topics.

What type of content does Wicked Wizard make?

Wicked Wizard creates gaming-focused content, including gameplay and analysis videos inferred from titles like 'What happened to The Long Drive?', 'What happened to Scrap Mechanic?', and 'What went wrong with Hello Engineer?'. The channel uploads at an average rate of ~0.2 uploads per week with about 457.3K average views per video. Recent videos range from 267K to 861K views.

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