I do think games like ONI do lend themselves to long term content on YouTube. People may drop off a series in the short term but old series will continue to have views roll in a lot longer than other games.

Best line in the whole thing "This place is starting to come together, it doesn't look great but it doesn't look too bad either" lol

I love that you called a colony-wide collapse due to starvation "The Munchies". I'm gonna start using that lol

It's me! Sorry for trying to drown myself right out the gate!

Aside from now feeling connected to this playthrough, I'm here for the swampy biome dumpster fires!

I really like the series format concept. It makes so much sense from a storytelling standpoint.
The early game has the most readable narrative. You're basically only working on one project at a time and you're trying to just nail down the basics. It basically doesn't matter what you had planned, you're just trying to survive. Once you you're solidly into the the mid game you're dealing with multiple colonies and trying to set up autonomous systems. It's hard to talk about the 5 projects you're keeping tabs on all in one video, but each of those 5 projects might be perfect for its own tutorial video (and you can even refer back to the basic systems you used in the early game).

2 years later, and am starting this series just now :)

as someone who dabbles in videos as well. don't forget about the 15k people that enjoy watching your series all the way through. their your loyalty squad. it's not as flashy as that first video for sure, but they love your content and look forward to seeing a new video from you every time you post. I personally do, and enjoy watching a lets play all the way through.

I am all here for the chaos. I’m glad you’re gonna be playing alongside with us. Cant wait for the showcase

Oh, Echo! Good luck! Hope Echo chooses your base to be featured on the recap after the playthrough! ...wait a minute...

At a certain point you also progress past the point where most people can take a colony. Ive never been able to keep a colony stable even half as far along the tech tree as you do, I've only ever been able to launch 1 CO2 rocket.
I try to follow along each colony start amd even do my own one from same seed but time and skill level get in the way. Still good to watch the ingenuity of the systems you put in place.

Personally I'm still watching the Max Difficulty run, I'm 27 videos in but I only found this channel a few weeks ago. I hope you keep doing more series like it because I find it more enjoyable but I do understand it can fade out of popularity. I do however thing it draws in people like myself, and I imagine that you can more easily produce said long form series than one off videos since you have to come up with new idea and create a script opening to start off each new thing.  

Anyways long of it I'm for keeping the long series but I understand the struggle these types of series have on youtube. I think there are steps you could take to improve retention but its never going to be equal to a new series usually.

"Because we take care of our duplicants, and they never get injured or hurt-"

Flashback to Max Dif all achievements where dupes were getting smacked in the face by radbolts.

I've got a colony on a radioactive/swampy asteroid and I'm trying the dumbest idea I could think of: Using gas pumps to draw the icky slimelung filled air up, past a radioactive satellite to kill the germs and then past some deoderizers, then out into the rest of the base.   It's working so far.  No germs and clean air, which is really good since I don't have a source of water on the asteroid to run an electrolyzer.

PSA - If you are brand new to the game and got it with SO, this is the best start. I'm going to be brutally honest here. A video series for this exact start is really great to have on YT. Especially if it can teach beginners how to play. Because I always recommend first time users to start on this exact choice - Metallic Swampy Moonlet, if they bought the game with SO.

YEAH!!! NEW SERIES!!! WERE MAKIN IT OUT OF 2023 WITH THIS ONE!!! 🔥🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀

I think you are on the right track with the new format idea. For players like me, the early into mid game is the muscle memory part of the game. Tutorial style when some of the big hurdles come out and how to adjust would be wonderful to watch.

Completing all the story traits sounds like a fun objective and it doesn't put the constraints of regular achievements on you while still being a bit challenging.

Youtube is more likely to recommend the earlier episodes, but not the later ones.
It's a trend I've definitely noticed.

Chaos? What chaos? Echo is a pro level gamer. ❤

I think the approach of making tutorials, for large constructions, to maintain the number of views is a good idea.