About

Welcome to the Let's Play Archive, the largest collection of video game playthroughs on the internet. On this site, you can find a large collection of completed Let's Play threads presented in a clean and ad-free format, with new threads being added constantly. The Let's Play Archive was created in early 2007 as a way to preserve past Let's Play threads in full, without having to rely on outside image hosts, video hosts or forums. In little over a year, the number of games featured in the Archive has increased from five to over 400, thanks to the continued efforts of a large number of people.

The concept of the Let's Play thread was born on the forums of Something Awful, where they became popular in early 2006 and were given their own sub-forum in March 2007. A Let's Play thread, often abbreviated as "LP", is a forum thread where one person plays through a game, recording his progress by video, screenshots, or both, and then posts this progress in updates in his Let's Play thread. Most of the time, the screenshots and videos are accompanied by informative, insightful, in-character or just plain funny commentary by the author, making Let's Play threads a great way to get to know the ins and outs of a game in a fun way, without having to go through the hassle of actually playing the damn thing.

In late 2008, the folks at archive.org offered to host Video LPs in perpetuity, solving the crisis of where to host large numbers of videos.

Feel free to browse through our huge archive of entertaining and enthralling Let's Play threads by over 200 different authors, covering video games of all genres, ages and consoles, and be sure to check back regulary for new content!

F.A.Q.

• Where did all these LP threads come from?
  All the LP threads on this website were originally posted on the Something Awful forums.
• Is my LP thread good enough to be archived as well?
  The archive is intended to be a simple repository of all old LP threads. There are very few threads which will not be allowed in based on their quality.
• When will this LP thread be added to the archive?
  In general, threads are added as and when they are submitted, in no particular order. If you particularly wish a thread added to the archive, you can contact the administrators and send them the link to the thread on the Something Awful forums. If the thread is particularly long, you can read the first post of the stickied General Discussion thread to find out how to archive it yourself, and do any necessary editing. If little editing is required, it is simpler just to send the thread's link to the administrators.
• Why does it seem like there's an update missing in this LP thread?
  The archives of the Something Awful forums have a nasty habit of permanently deleting random posts, which can create holes in some of the older threads, and unfortunately, Let's Play threads are no exception.
• I can't view the backup videos!
  Try downloading the K-Lite or CCCP codec packs.

Contact

For questions about the Let's Play Archive that aren't already answered in the F.A.Q. above, please contact the Let's Play Archive administrators at LetsPlayArchive@gmail.com. If you've got a Something Awful forums account, you can also ask any questions in the stickied General Discussion thread in the Let's Play subforum, and if you've got the Platinum upgrade, you can send a PM to baldurk. To contact a Let's Play author, use the contact information on the index page of his Let's Play thread when provided, or contact him through the SA forums.