🎮How to Organize Gaming YouTube Channels into Folders

Why a flat subscription list breaks for gaming

Gaming is unusually diverse on YouTube. A 4-hour Elden Ring playthrough, a 90-second Valorant clip, an indie dev devlog, and a competitive Tekken match all live in the same feed if you do not split them. The mood you watch each in is also different — long-form before bed, clips on a coffee break, esports during dinner.

When the feed mixes all of these, you scroll past 90% of it every visit. Folders restore the ability to pick the right kind of gaming content for the time and mood you actually have.

Three folder structures that work for gaming

By genre

The most intuitive split. FPS, RPG, Strategy, Indie, Simulation, Fighting, Sandbox. Match the genres you actually watch — if you never touch strategy games, do not create the folder just for completeness.

By creator type

Let's Plays, Reviews, Esports / Pro Players, Speedruns, News & Leaks. Useful when the same game shows up across very different formats and you want to watch the analysis but skip the playthroughs (or the other way around).

By time investment

Quick Clips (under 15 min), Mid-form (15–45 min), Long-form (45 min+). Powerful when you want to scan only the videos that fit the time you have right now.

A sample setup

If you are not sure where to start, this layout covers most viewers in five folders:

• Esports — competitive matches, tournament VODs, pro analysis
• News & Leaks — daily news channels, patch notes, release coverage
• Playthroughs — Let's Plays and long-form series you follow
• Reviews — first impressions and full reviews
• Clips & Funny — short-form, highlights, memes

Set it up in FolderTube

1. Install FolderTube from the Chrome Web Store.
2. Open YouTube and click the purple FolderTube button in the top-right of the page to open the sidebar.
3. Press the sync subscriptions button to import every channel you follow.
4. Create the folders above (or your own variants) and drag channels into them.
5. Open the Subscriptions page and use the folder filter to browse one category at a time.

When to add subfolders

Once a single gaming folder grows past ~15 channels, subfolders help. Common cases: Gaming > FPS / RPG / Strategy, or Esports > League / Valorant / CS. Subfolders are a Premium feature in FolderTube — useful once your top-level structure is genuinely too crowded, overkill before then.

What to read next

For the general workflow behind any category, see the complete guide to organizing YouTube subscriptions. For ideas on grouping channels around other interests, see how to group YouTube channels by topic.