Mid-January was marked by major releases. God of War (the hit of 2018 for PS4) and Monster Hunter Rise (last year's game for Nintendo Switch) were released on PC — and immediately made it in the Steam ranking by the number of players and in the Twitch viewership top.
Top 20 Twitch categories for Jan 11-17
Monster Hunter Rise by Capcom was released on PC on January 12 and in a week on the platform reached 4.3M Hours Watched and 115K Peak Viewers. Such popular streamers as LIRIK, knekro and BlackUFA turned their attention to the game, which influenced the views and brought the game into the top 20 of the platform over the past week.
Most popular Monster Hunter Rise clip for last 7 days
The game took second place in the Steam revenue ranking from January 12 to 16. Monster Hunter Rise became the second game in the ranking among Capcom titles by the number of simultaneous players on Steam — 133K. The game moved the recent Resident Evil: Village to third place, but could did not overtake Monster Hunter World (which had 329K Peak Viewers).
God of War is a title that received many awards in 2018 and became the "Game of the Year" by The Game Awards. The game was a PlayStation exclusive, fans had to wait four years before the release of its PC version. The release took place on January 16 and on that day 111K people watched the game at its peak. Top content makers of the platform, like shroud, alanzoka, gaules and VooDooSh, streamed God of War on Twitch.
Most popular God of War clip for 7 days
In just one day, the game was able to beat other titles on Steam in terms of revenue and took first place in the ranking from January 12 to 16. As for the audience of gamers, 73K people played God of War simultaneously through Steam.
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