Watch out, Ghouls, Basilisks, and Succubi — Witcher fans are celebrating a major milestone! It’s been exactly 10 years since the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the iconic RPG from CD Projekt RED and one of the most immersive story-driven games in gaming history. To mark the anniversary, the team at Streams Charts took a deep dive into the game’s presence in livestreaming and highlighted the streamers who remain the most devoted to the cursed craft of monster hunting.
Fun facts about The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in the world of livestreaming:
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has racked up over 74 million Hours Watched across all major streaming platforms in the past five years.
Twitch became the go-to platform for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt fans, accounting for a whopping 93.7% of total HW over the past five years. The remaining viewership came from YouTube and Trovo.
The most-popular The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt broadcast on Twitch peaked at 73,706 viewers. It took place on August 17, 2020, on the GamesDoneQuick channel during the Summer Games Done Quick 2020 Online charity speedrun-marathon. That broadcast also set the all-time Twitch record for concurrent viewers in The Witcher 3 category, reaching an impressive 90,346 viewers.
The most-popular Witcher 3 stream on CD PROJEKT RED’s official channel peaked at 61,495 viewers. It occurred in November 2022 during the reveal of the game’s Next-Gen Update for the latest generation of consoles.
The peak number of concurrent Witcher 3 streams on Twitch hit 820 channels. This record was set on December 14, 2022 — the day the Next-Gen version of the game was released.
Saqib ‘’LIRIK’’ Ali Zahid drew the largest audience for a Witcher 3 stream among Twitch creators, peaking at 44,291 concurrent viewers during his Christmas broadcast in 2019.
Erik ‘’GronkhTV’’ Range holds the top spot for the most hours watched streaming The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — with over 2,073,981 Hours Watched. Coming in second is the Fextralife studio channel, followed by Quintin ‘’Quin69’’ Crawford and Ben ‘’CohhCarnage’’ Cassell rounding out the top four.
On Twitch, the channel animesworld leads in total streaming time for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with a total of 6,258 hours spent streaming the game.
English is the most popular language for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt streams, making up more than 32% of the game’s total HW on Twitch over the past five years. The top three languages are rounded out by Russian at 21.5% and German at 11.8%.
The Witcher 3: 10 Years of Streaming Stats
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