# The Salt Factory: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-28, The Salt Factory has 562,000 subscribers, 153,412,413 total views, and 85 videos. It ranks #135,529 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [The Salt Factory](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for The Salt Factory is “The Unhinging of Hideo Kojima - Metal Gear Solid 3”, a long-form video published Sep 1, 2026.
- These are The Salt Factory’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Apr 1, 2021 and Sep 1, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 1,054,812. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Was Dragon Age: Origins as good as I remember? - An analysis of one of BioWare's best games” (8,661,403 views, Oct 18, 2021). Least viewed: “Was Snakeybus as good as I remember? \[April Fools 2021\]” (44,942 views, Apr 1, 2021).
- Median length: 1:55:37 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, The Salt Factory’s consecutive uploads were a median of 36 days apart (shortest gap 11 days, longest 117 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Unhinging of Hideo Kojima - Metal Gear Solid 3](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/D_-mu8Haga0/) | 2026-09-01 | Long-form | 352,210 | 2:19:53 | 0.73x |
| [Kingdom Come Deliverance II - The Game of the Year that wasn't](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/sPjxLrYMtfs/) | 2026-07-14 | Long-form | 470,079 | 5:01:01 | 0.95x |
| [Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty - CDPR's Redemption Arc](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/cvuLiHdXvIM/) | 2026-04-30 | Long-form | 246,483 | 2:24:52 | - |
| [VtM Bloodlines 2 - When you don't care in the slightest](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/kECeSzRp5KE/) | 2026-03-13 | Long-form | 659,544 | 2:39:28 | 1x |
| [A modern masterpiece - Cyberpunk 2077](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/sLoFMPZSf-Q/) | 2026-01-16 | Long-form | 1,129,305 | 3:25:08 | 1.44x |
| [The Meaninglessness of Life: Rue Valley](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/HQqQPRjIT_M/) | 2025-11-14 | Long-form | 117,340 | 1:15:02 | - |
| [Was the original Gears of War trilogy as good as I remember?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/WtZYzO55Dw8/) | 2025-10-21 | Long-form | 655,941 | 3:13:58 | 0.84x |
| [The Biggest Miniature Garden \| The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/fnAQM8MF0tY/) | 2025-08-18 | Long-form | 179,144 | 1:32:26 | - |
| [How to ruin a franchise - Dragon Age: The Veilguard](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/6JPMiLcCzz0/) | 2025-06-30 | Long-form | 2,189,192 | 3:44:46 | 2.01x |
| [Was Metal Gear Solid 2 as good as I remember? - Revisiting Kojima's overload of information](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/dNGAFKB193U/) | 2025-04-08 | Long-form | 488,460 | 2:04:23 | 0.52x |
| [Was Assassin's Creed as good as I remember? - A look at the start of Ubisoft's Golden Goose](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/LeeCK5PoPEA/) | 2025-02-03 | Long-form | 500,507 | 1:19:49 | 0.53x |
| [Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader - A novel crammed into a CRPG](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/DtqrwLrty_M/) | 2024-12-19 | Long-form | 910,614 | 5:58:19 | 0.81x |
| [The Witcher 3 DLC - The Golden Age of CDPR](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/TRM4Gr4e8G8/) | 2024-08-24 | Long-form | 1,381,295 | 3:31:18 | 1.08x |
| [Is Mass Effect Andromeda as bad as everyone says it is? - A look at the writing and mechanics](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/HnhujIoKfvM/) | 2024-05-21 | Long-form | 2,169,736 | 2:53:43 | 1.92x |
| [Star Wars Republic Commando - A series that never was](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/wuW52QfFhvE/) | 2024-02-29 | Long-form | 392,891 | 45:09 | - |
| [Was the original Halo trilogy as good as I remember? - A look at Bungie's repetitive creativity](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/iA607kRYzR8/) | 2024-01-24 | Long-form | 1,268,926 | 2:08:54 | 1.13x |
| [Evaluating Dragon Age Inquisition - A Sliver of Good](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/obFMQ-Grrlk/) | 2023-12-10 | Long-form | 1,289,517 | 4:15:19 | 1.32x |
| [Was RDR Undead Nightmare as good as I remember? - Rockstar's take on the zombie craze](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/ItbzigCpTwk/) | 2023-10-22 | Long-form | 266,893 | 31:09 | - |
| [Was the Original God of War Trilogy as good as I remember? - A look at the games that shaped Kratos](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/Nb1xYLykalQ/) | 2023-09-29 | Long-form | 980,319 | 1:30:04 | 1.01x |
| [Jade Empire - BioWare's half-baked dream game](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/165VfKM-tXc/) | 2023-09-05 | Long-form | 666,697 | 1:42:11 | 0.58x |
| [Evaluating The Witcher 3 - A Tedious Masterpiece](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/-3KCqdRbOY4/) | 2023-07-27 | Long-form | 1,346,711 | 4:03:49 | 1.01x |
| [Was Red Dead Redemption as good as I remember?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/yCDNYirwEI0/) | 2023-05-22 | Long-form | 1,327,990 | 1:22:30 | 1.16x |
| [The Evolution of Daedric Princes in The Elder Scrolls](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/wZnVxaCp02k/) | 2023-04-18 | Long-form | 364,408 | 39:29 | - |
| [Evaluating Morrowind's DLC - Expanding a legacy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/9RBjaPkAfGU/) | 2023-03-13 | Long-form | 760,528 | 55:23 | 0.63x |
| [Evaluating Kingdom Come Deliverance - Warhorse Studios' Bohemian Rhapsody](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/zLQiGxYRyio/) | 2023-02-10 | Long-form | 1,896,582 | 2:07:24 | 1.27x |
| [Evaluating Pokemon Violet - An Ambitious Disaster](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/xnMKr-nInRU/) | 2022-12-30 | Long-form | 958,918 | 1:12:11 | 0.73x |
| [Evaluating Dragon Age II - The RPG with no role to play](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/TkwJtuQIHM8/) | 2022-12-10 | Long-form | 1,450,400 | 3:18:01 | 0.97x |
| [Was Dead Space as good as I remember? - A look at a new breed of horror game](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/eeNNcicrp_U/) | 2022-10-21 | Long-form | 601,076 | 1:11:21 | - |
| [Was Fallout 2 as good as I remember? - A forgotten vision of the wasteland's future](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/YmwBlwaltZM/) | 2022-09-26 | Long-form | 3,539,545 | 2:12:09 | - |
| [Is Fable 3 as bad as everyone says it is? - A look at Lionhead's failures](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/dTZmy-Z-LlI/) | 2022-08-19 | Long-form | 1,668,301 | 1:05:25 | - |
| [Was L.A. Noire as good as I remember? - A look into a modern day classic](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/FRCfAY5Lsys/) | 2022-07-29 | Long-form | 637,704 | 1:23:37 | - |
| [Was Mass Effect 3 as bad as I remember? - A colorful ending to a beloved trilogy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/zLtoGTQ43Xg/) | 2022-06-24 | Long-form | 1,533,712 | 4:03:40 | - |
| [A Decade Later - Comparing Every Forza Horizon Game](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/6d1V8tkMM68/) | 2022-05-16 | Long-form | 252,791 | 53:07 | - |
| [Evaluating The Witcher 2 - Great story, terrible execution](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/oi77K2pvyaY/) | 2022-04-29 | Long-form | 1,740,467 | 2:22:56 | - |
| [Evaluating Dragon Age Origins DLC - "premium content" in a nutshell](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/dPaEuYK8-gg/) | 2022-03-30 | Long-form | 1,210,800 | 2:02:26 | - |
| [Evaluating The Outer Worlds - Obsidian's Aggressively Average Adventure](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/4smXx-IzAeg/) | 2022-02-25 | Long-form | 4,074,258 | 2:24:32 | - |
| [Was Fallout as good as I remember? - A look at the series' beginning](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/d21cIUxl1Sg/) | 2022-01-28 | Long-form | 2,573,683 | 1:30:44 | - |
| [Was Mass Effect 2 as good as I remember? - An analysis of BioWare's companion collection simulator](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/t7A7tvqoxaY/) | 2021-12-31 | Long-form | 1,301,720 | 4:00:01 | - |
| [Is Genshin Impact Worth Playing?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/1aFo_rkbJgE/) | 2021-12-06 | Long-form | 552,809 | 1:07:18 | - |
| [Evaluating Inscryption - Innovative horror meets deck building card game](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/S3S4FBegV7I/) | 2021-10-30 | Long-form | 163,812 | 27:05 | - |
| [Was Dragon Age: Origins as good as I remember? - An analysis of one of BioWare's best games](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/s3SLdJkDr-k/) | 2021-10-18 | Long-form | 8,661,403 | 3:47:07 | - |
| [Was Fable II as good as I remember? - An imperfect clone of its predecessor](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/3bCshLeNSpY/) | 2021-09-03 | Long-form | 2,142,726 | 1:35:52 | - |
| [The MMO that never existed - The admirable stupidity of Chronicles of Elyria](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/u5byfi2JVdo/) | 2021-08-02 | Long-form | 1,959,837 | 45:59 | - |
| [Evaluating Fallout 4's DLC- Incompetence meets brilliance](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/eTLhSoEIBIg/) | 2021-07-16 | Long-form | 3,836,970 | 1:17:58 | - |
| [Is modern Runescape worth playing? -A look at the version differences and the story of Runescape](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/01a_CdlqlDA/) | 2021-06-28 | Long-form | 482,697 | 51:48 | - |
| [Was The Witcher as good as I remember?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/w_jiy3-lDS4/) | 2021-05-31 | Long-form | 2,606,749 | 2:13:19 | - |
| [Was Mass Effect as good as I remember?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/_yaqm7YkjfQ/) | 2021-04-26 | Long-form | 2,074,547 | 1:48:49 | - |
| [Was Snakeybus as good as I remember? \[April Fools 2021\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thesaltfactory/videos/1DEqKreFYYs/) | 2021-04-01 | Long-form | 44,942 | 3:02 | - |

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