Best Games to Stream for MAXIMUM Growth on Twitch in 2020!.
If you are broadcasting as a hobby then play what you love but if you want to grow your viewer base and turn broadcasting into a real career then you have to be tactical about your choice of game from the get go, that's the harsh truth. Streaming on twitch is an oversaturated platform and streaming what you love will kill your streaming, so today I'm going to give you my techniques on how I can tell if a game is good for growth or not, as well as some of the ones I've used to grow my stream hello my name is Eljay with streamscheme.com I am also a variety streamer on twitch.tv/eljayem_ links to both in the description if you have any questions about today's video you can check in the comments or take a look .
It should be live right now, which means you can ask me whatever you want. Last week I made a video on how to grow on twitch and one of the things I cover is game choice and after I released that video I was curious what other content it creates The tors were doing to choose games and I found a video that gave some of the worst advice I have ever seen.
I'm not going to go into detail about what they said because I don't want to be broadcasting such bad advice or calling someone, but essentially the advice they gave was to play valerian on twitch because it was popular that you were told with 0-10 viewers to play a very saturated game to grow on twitch and this just doesn't work, so today like I said, I'm going to show you two techniques that I use to find games that will help me grow on Twitch , in addition to giving you some of the games that I have already used and that you should be able to use also quickly to be able to nail this house.
For you, why is it bad advice to play popular games on twitch? Well I said it in my last video and I will say it again in this one, why would anyone scroll past people with thousands of viewers, hundreds of viewers, even dozens? of viewers watch a stream from zero to five viewers and yeah you're right they might like to watch smaller streams you see that post on our crunch every day oh I was hanging out in a smaller community and loved it .
Great but there are 4700 live ish channels playing balarat at the time of making the es video now if i just went from 570 of them to even reach people with zero to five, that means there are about forty two hundred people broadcasting between zero and five if you think they'll recommend you as a small community with those odds then sorry it's very unlucky, so with that out of the way, let's talk about how you can pick a game to grow on twitch mi first tip that you can do completely on twitch first you want to go watch a game and look at the followers category these are the people who have chosen to follow in the category or game choice now if someone has chosen to follow in a category or game choice , it means that this category or game will definitely be recommended to them and people broadcast it so that you want to find a game that has a large number, I recommend 800000 more once you are in the category, I want you to look at the first few rows and compare where your viewers are average and find out where it would sit If you were playing this game, the higher you are in your category, the more likely people are to click on you.
I also cover how to create a clickable thumbnail in my growth video, which is again linked in the description, so if you're curious about that be sure to check out a great example of a game choice that use this is stardew valley when i started streaming stardew valley was broadcasting to 8-10 average viewers and managed to grow from that to 35 average viewers with streaming mainly in this category and every now and then just chatting and building a community, Stardew Valley has about 800,000 category followers, and you usually only need to have five, maybe 10 viewers to reach the top three rows, which it's fantastic for you, plus it's another reason this game is great to play as a smaller streamer is because the npcs are very realistic, very chatty, so it gives you someone to bounce off of as someone with such slower chat time.
It's also a story-based game, but it's also a very open world so you write your own which is great for people who really want to interact with you, the community in this game is very active on all platforms and cares a lot about it, which is great and you might be thinking so, but the category only averages 500800 total viewers, which is not good for many viewers if I have zero to five viewers 500 to 800 is a lot of people who might click on your stream, so maybe Starjetter is not for you and that's fine, you can use this technique to find out whether or not you will actually be able to be discovered in the cate But if you still don't know what kind of games to play, I'll show you a way to spy on other streamers and find out what most of their followers got before I show you how to spy on your fellow streamer.
I'll ask you how this video helps you , let me know what content has been useful to you and if you have any questions, drop them in the comments then. I answer them in five minutes. there is no life so go ahead i am here for you or take a look at me live and i will help you ok so for this method you will need to find a streamer that is a similar size to yours and a similar type of content for your audience current or the audience you want to reach now, I'll use myself as an example to make it easier, but like I said, find someone your size, so let's go to twitchtracker.com and go find the streamer who has chosen one, as you can see here, you get a lot of information right away and may take some time to review it, but I recommend scrolling down to most of the streamed games that you will see there from the left.
On the right they have the most played games on this channel by total hours. I want you to click to see more about this and you are going to click followers. This will rank the games your fans have played per hour instantly. You'll want to check the average viewership of these games, for example, you can watch mine.
And see when I played Breath of the Wild I received an average of 88, so if you can't maintain that average when you play it, you may not be able to earn 3.1 followers per hour playing, you can also see that I played ruthlessly 79.5 hours and still managed get 3.1 followers per hour, so this is a great example of a game that is fantastic to grow if you can sit between 50-100 viewers and enjoy it, obviously, so another thing you can click instead of most streamed games is when you're in their homepage, you can click on recent broadcasts and then sort by followers, this will allow you to see the broadcasts that this person got the most followers of in recent times from here, you can even dig into them by clicking on a broadcast, this will show a graph to show you when people clipped followed and you can even find out when the raids happened to get an idea of the follow-up again it was just a big raid and not the game at the time.
Using this information you can actually check if a game is good for you because you can see if it was good for another streamer that is similar to you then what is the tldr? the tldr is essentially two, check that category followers look at the top three rows of the category to see where it will fit in, use the twitch tracker to see whether or not it's a game good for growth, and spy on your fellow streamers to find out what games they played to grow oh, and fifth, check out my how to grow video it's about a lot of different things in much more detail with all of this, you should be able to start generating some great ideas on what you can play on streaming for growth or at least see the ones you already have, so i am quickly going to release my top five games for growth on twitch first stardew valley, i honestly think that this is one of the best games for new streamers to play, like I said, great for chatting, great for low average viewers and people love this game two, I would recommend playing the darkest dungeon, it is quite a game small, but if you don't have viewers, you often get people to come and you can name your characters after your viewers and they get them involved in story three is Minecraft, people are always going to love Minecraft, they will always see it , it's a bit freaky when it comes to this m-system that I've told you about, but it's still a great game, keep in mind you have a lot of younger viewers, which means it may be a a difficult category to stream if you don't have mods four, check out the wild one because it is a fantastic game to make people grow to play it to this day and they love it with the breath of the wild two coming out, there is a lot of enthusiasm, so people revisit the category and animal number five crosses a new horizon.
