Twitch is home to thousands of content creators who play a plethora of games. Titles such as Valorant, League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and GTA V, are always among the most-played games on the streaming platform, with viewers watching the games for millions of hours. But, there are also some games that trend during a period of time, where they see a huge increase in their number of Hours Watched. This can be because the game has been recently launched, received an update, or a huge event took place. Streams Charts collected all the necessary stats to present to you the top 5 trending games on Twitch in the past thirty days.
#1 — FIFA 23
FIFA 23 has been the most trending game on Twitch in the past thirty days. The famous football game was released on the 30th of September, in an edition that marks the end of the partnership between Electronic Arts and FIFA, which makes it even more special. Since its release, it has become one of the most-watched games on the platform with 73.8 million Hours Watched in the past thirty days, a 33K% increase in the previous number of HW.
There are many popular FIFA streamers on Twitch, such as Castro_1021, RocKy_, and Trymacs, but none of them had more impact in growing the popularity of the game than eliasn97. The german streamer, who was the fourth most subbed steamer on the platform in Q3, accounted for 10% of all the Hours Watched of the game.
#2 - Pokémon Community Game
Pokémon Community Game is the second most trending game on the platform with 10.8 million Hours Watched. Despite much better numbers than the ones achieved previously, it’s still far from the ones FIFA managed to reach. Its recent success is due to the Pokémon Twitch Cup 2, an event that joins the biggest Spanish streamers in a personalized and very detailed pokemon map that is not available to the public. Twitch stars such as ibai, Mixwell, aXoZer, and many others are participating in the event. Despite all the big names attending the tournament, IlloJuan was the most important streamer in the recent growth the game has seen. The charismatic Spanish streamer accounted for 25% of all the Hours Watched of the title.
#3 - Grounded
Grounded was released on the 27th of September, and the survival adventure game, which has received a lot of praise from players, quickly became the game of choice for variety streamers. It had a 4K% growth in HW, reaching 7.5 million Hours Watched. Streamers such as CohhCarnage, Elajjaz, and Tonton, were very important to the growth of the game, but it was alanzoka, one of the biggest Brazilian streamers, that played the most important role in the growth of the title. He mainly streams the game with some of his friends, who are also content creators, which makes his broadcasts of the game very funny and entertaining, captivating many Portuguese-speaking viewers. He accounted for 14% of the game’s Hours Watched.
#4 - Gundam Evolution
Gundam Evolution is an FPS video game, that is based on the popular Japanese animation franchise Gundam. It was released on the 21st of September, and some of the top names on Twitch, such as xQc and moistcr1tikal, were quick to try the game out. Viewers watched the game for 7.3 million hours in the past thirty days, with variety streamer fps_shaka, arguably the biggest Japanese streamer in the platform, being responsible for 12% of all the HW. Gundam Evolution sponsored many streamers to play the game, which had a positive effect on its viewership numbers.
#5 - Terraria
The RPG action game Terraria was the fifth most trending game of the past thirty days on Twitch. Terraria is a very well know game, with many positive reviews, and had a resurgence in the past thirty days. Quin69 was the main responsible for the astonishing increase in HW that Terraria had, going from 617K HW to 4.8 million Hours Watched. The streamer created a series called “ZENITH HC”, which is a perma death series, meaning if he dies the game is over. If that happens he will also gift 500 subs, which certainly makes things even more interesting, and has captivated the attention of thousands of viewers.
There are always new and exciting games being launched every week, that many content creators try out on their streams. Apart from a small number of games, we have always had new games trending. Next month we can expect new titles that were either released or had a resurgence in popularity to be trending on the platform.
If you want to keep an eye on what games are trending on Twitch check the Streams Charts trending games page, where you will be able to find the thirty-five games that are trending on the streaming platform. With the PRO subscription, you will be able to see what were the trending games of previous months and years. You will not be limited to only one page, and can also search for the games by language, giving you much more detailed statistics.
