Best game to play to get views on Twitch?

[VG Docs]

Other than being extremely good at a particular game or game style, what do you think would be a good game to start playing to get a lot of views? I'm mainly curious because I have a lot of games I want to beat while live streaming, but I'm not sure what to go with. I know nothing of things like this

[Fulgrim]

World Of Tanks, Counter Strike Global Offensive, WoW, League Of Legends, Dota 2, Hearthstone. (in no particular order)

[Jerakl]

Minecraft.

Or Sanic Ball

[NInety]

Just play a game you enjoy and build up an audience over time. Don't expect to be popular just from playing CS:GO like 10,000 other kids.

[VG Docs]

Just play a game you enjoy and build up an audience over time. Don't expect to be popular just from playing CS:GO like 10,000 kids.

I'm not good at that game anyway.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Phantoms on the other hand, I like a lot more. But its peak on the official GRP stream is probably like 80 viewers

[Kayn]

you're not going to instantly get views just because you're playing a popular games. you're going to have to build your audience over time before people start seeing you on the front page of a game section.

[VG Docs]

you're not going to instantly get views just because you're playing a popular games. you're going to have to build your audience over time before people start seeing you on the front page of a game section.

Yeah, I know... but I figured playing a game that I like and that has a good viewership anyway could be a good idea. I like most games I play, so I don't have a problem with many games. I mainly just don't like the arena style FPS games.

[MattTheMayor]

Just get any of the new games like day 1 early and stream it. It helps.

[Bloodyvalley]

Start with YouTube first.

[VG Docs]

Start with YouTube first.

I probably should've mentioned this, but I'm doing both by live streaming my games, then editing the recorded footage to smaller segments, also edited to make more entertaining, then uploaded to youtube.

[T6kke]

Being good at a game has actually very little to do with becoming popular. A lot is dependent on your personality. There are some pro players with lots of viewers but there are a lot of pro players with very little viewers.

 

Play games that you enjoy. Viewers will notice if you're not having fun and they don't like watching those streams. You don't have to be super good at the game but it helps to know about the game so if people in chat talk about the game you can have a conversation with them.

 

Play something that is popular and well known. No reason to stream Tribes: Ascend even if you love the game. For example doing something like modded Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas(there is a mod that adds those worlds together and a lot of other extra expansion mods). This will result in some attention. Anything AAA or very popular indie like Kerbal Space Program will work.

 

What also helps is being active chat member in some a little bit bigger streams that play similar games to yours. Then when those viewers go look for streams and see your name they will check that you. And if they like it they will stay.

 

Also keep in mind that getting some traction is very hard. Getting those first 20 Viewers is the most difficult and from there it gets easier. Also don't stream to get popular, stream because you want to. Even if there is 0 or 1 or 100 or 10000 viewers. Always do the best show you can. And what also helps is if you have a consistent streaming schedule so people know when to check you out. If they like your stream they will make time to watch you in their day. But if you stream maybe once or twice a week on a random day at a random time, sometimes 30 minutes sometimes 5 hours, then people, even if they follow you may not take that much interest.

[Drunken Savior]

Whatever is new or limited (e.g. betas with no NDA).  I saw a few (~4) small channels get partnered over the Destiny Beta.

[Bschro4]

It is more about how you interact with your viewers than what game you are playing.  There is no magical game that will guarantee  viewers.  But I would suggest, at first, staying away from the big popular games like WoW, CS:G0, LoL, Dota2 because it is very easy to get lost in the crowd.  People hardly scroll through all the players, they usually stick with the top five streamers in that game.

 

Another way that could help you get noticed is by playing the big new releases the day after they come out.

[LogicalDrm]

Any new game or beta. But you need to be talking also. I avoid streams with silence and music but no talk. Thats why I always talk, even if there isn't nobody watching. Sometimes not-so-popular games get views because people are channel surfing. Like Loadout etc.

[Verne]

As everyone has already said, you won't get many viewers, if at all just by playing a certain game. You have to build it up slowly over time. It might help to start with a game that just came out that people want to see played. If you are serious about it, you have to advertise yourself and learn to be entertaining and interactive with the viewers. It's more about your personality than what game(s) you play, really.