GrayStillPlays

"I make bad choices in games and cause pixel people to become sad."

GrayStillPlays is a YouTube-based Let's Player who has since starting his channel branched out into videos of not just playing games, but actively trying to break them -- by pursuing bizarre and strange goals and strategies, or by hacking a game's XML data, or using over-the-top mods, or all of the above at once -- with the intent of producing unexpected but hilarious and entertaining results. He also enjoys diving into early-access games and indie simulation games of dubious quality and enjoying their inevitable malfunctions.

As of early 2021 he is best known for running destruction-test scenarios (and the cast of characters he subjects to them) in The Sims 4. He is also known for accepting viewer challenges in games like Happy Wheels and Guts and Glory which allow users to design boards or courses and share them with other players. Gray's persistence and ability to beat even scenarios designed to be unwinnable endears him an audience of literally millions.

His YouTube channel can be found here. He also has a Twitter account and a Discord.


 * BeamNG.Drive
 * Car Mechanic simulator 2018
 * Cities: Skylines
 * City Smash
 * Deadliest Catch Simulator
 * Ecosystem
 * Farming Simulator 19
 * Fun with Ragdolls: The Game
 * Grand Theft Auto V
 * The Guild 3
 * Guts and Glory
 * Gym Simulator
 * Happy Wheels
 * Metro Sim Hustle
 * Minecraft
 * My Summer Car
 * Planet Coaster
 * Power and Revolution 2019
 * RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
 * Room Smash
 * Sailaway
 * The Sims 4
 * Solar Smash
 * Tidal Tribe
 * Universe Sandbox 2
 * Wildlife Park 3


 * Catch Phrases:
 * "All right, we're checking out the only game where (outrageous thing here), 'Game Name'."
 * "Rookie numbers!"
 * "More X, dammit!"
 * "More zeroes!"
 * "Not today, Satan!"
 * "I.... caaaaan doooooo thiiiiis..."
 * "Oh, penis."
 * "It's entirely likely this board is.... impossible."
 * "Screw you, game!"
 * "...a full liquor bar!"
 * "We don't need X where we're going!"
 * "'Til next time, stay foxy and much love."
 * Cats Are Snarkers: The dialogue he provides for Spleens the Cat in his Sims videos frequently paints her this way.
 * Chirping Crickets: He sometimes underlines his less successful efforts at humor with a "chirping crickets" sound effect.
 * Cool Cat: His alternate characterization for Spleens.
 * Creepy Child: Never fails to quietly freak out over them when he encounters one in a badly-made simulation game.  And then there was the alleged "babysitting simulator" where the child was actually.
 * Enforced Plug: Played with.  Gray occasionally is required to present a product from whose manufacturer he's accepted sponsorship; he almost always does so by trying to destroy the product with various garden tools and melee weapons.
 * Evil Laugh: Has a really resonant one that has been heard frequently in his Spring 2021 Minecraft videos.
 * Florida: Where he lives, and the inspiration for "Florida Man", a recurring character whom he uses in multiple games, most notably The Sims.  It is also one of his most frequent targets for death from space, and where he locates most of his Cities: Skylines scenarios.
 * Game-Breaking Bugs and Good Bad Bugs: If they do something funny, he will find them.  For instance, Trailer Park Mechanic.
 * Incendiary Exponent: His Minecraft videos from Spring 2021 feature Reginald the Duck, who is invulnerable and given to bathing in lava, after which he wanders around at the base of a column of flame.
 * A Minecraft video from May 2021 features modded, minionized wolves which are not only immune to fire, but reproduce when exposed to it.
 * Joisey: Former resident of New Jersey, and still prone to Jersey jokes.
 * Let's Play
 * The Merch: Has an online store where one can buy T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and other gear. He has also worked with Makeship.com to create limited runs of custom plushies -- as of this writing, Florida Man and Spleens the Cat from his Sims videos.
 * Nice Hat: Reginald the Duck who has begun accompanying him in his Minecraft videos as of Spring 2021.  He wears a small top hat.
 * Non-Human Sidekick: Reginald the Duck from his 2021 Minecraft videos, who wears a tophat and is nigh invulnerable, and addresses Gray as "Dad" when Gray provides dialogue for him.
 * Only in Florida: He constantly lampshades this trope, while selecting Florida as the location for endless simulation games like Cities: Skylines or as the target of cosmic bombardment in games like Solar Smash
 * Sound Effect Bleep: Has an assortment of ... idiosyncratic ... sound effects which he uses to bleep out his occasional curse.
 * Standard Snippets: In addition to the sound effects he uses, you will also hear bits of appropriate (public-domain) music like "Ride of the Valkyries".
 * Stock Sound Effects : Gray has a small library of sound effects and musical stings he uses to emphasize key moments in his videos -- or censor his language.
 * Talking to Himself: For many games, such as The Sims and Minecraft, Gray will frequently provide dialogue for various (non-speaking) characters.
 * There Is No Kill Like Overkill: If he find a way to dial up the power of a weapon or tool, he will, laughing all the way.
 * Unusual Euphemism: Frequently blurts "oh, penis" when something goes wrong.
 * Video Game Cruelty Potential: The driving force behind his infamous Sims 4 videos, where he repeatedly subjects a common cast of characters to some nightmare scenario, just to see who will or won't survive -- or how quickly they all die.
 * To a lesser degree his delight in the virtual deaths he causes in games like Solar Smash.
 * Or any game that allows him to crash trains.
 * The Voice: Gray himself on almost all of his videos. Averted in his playthroughs of various Virtual Reality games, where we do occasionally get to see him superimposed on the game at its end.  He has also made the occasional vlog-like videos concerning his and his family's safety in the wake of various natural disasters to hit Florida, in which he appears on-camera to reassure viewers that they are all right..