Stray is definitely the biggest gaming release of July 2022. Gamers around the world are crazy about the title, the main character of which is an ordinary cat in a cyberpunk world inhabited by robots. The novelty was treated kindly by both critics and ordinary players, and it even became the most highly rated game of the year on Steam. The resounding success did not bypass Stray on Twitch, where it became one of the most watched categories of the platform in a week after the release.
Stray was released on July 19 on PC and PlayStation consoles: in seven days it has accumulated more than 9.28 million Hours Watched in total with an average audience of 55K concurrent viewers. At its peak, streams of the game on Twitch attracted more than 285K people, this happened on the day of the release of the game, when the most intense attention was paid to it.
In addition, Stray proved to be the most popular game among the platform's streamers. At its peak, over 7.8K channels streamed the game, which is the highest number of the last seven days on Twitch. If we consider the Average Channels indicator, then Stray only took the 9th place: however, it was still ahead of such popular games as Fall Guys, CS:GO, World of Warcraft and FIFA 22.
Most popular Stray male & female streamers on Twitch
Of course, Stray primarily owes its success to the top Twitch creators who actively streamed the game, especially on the day of release. Among the Stray streamers, three creators especially stand out: Rubius, xQc and GeorgeNotFound, who took 1-3 places by both Peak Viewers and Hours Watched. When it comes to female Twitch creators, AdrianaChechik_ came out on top by Hours Watched among Stray streamer.
It is noteworthy that, streamers mostly spent relatively little time on Stray: for example, GRONKH streamed it for more than ten hours, and this is rather an abnormally high figure, since the rest of the creators from the top spent 4-6 hours on it. The main reason is that it takes relatively little time to complete the game: if the game would be longer, the statistics could have been even more impressive.
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Stray has been a huge success in every way, but it will almost certainly be a very short one. The main statistical achievements of the title came on the day of release, when it was tried by dozens of top streamers of Twitch. However, statistics began to plummet already by July 21, and continues to do so until now. However, this is a normal situation for a singleplayer title. More detailed statistics on Stray and other Twitch categories can be found here.
