Best Games to Stream on Twitch

Recommended For: Streamers with 0-20 concurrent viewers.

Albion Online is an open-world sandbox MMORPG that has built a massive player base and huge hype since releasing its new free-to-play model. This is such a great game choice for streamers primarily due to the full loot PVP and massive high-risk group fighting. Think of the early days of Runescape player killing in the wilderness except with massive 100 vs. 100 guild battles.

Want to drop fat damage and kill enemies or ride around on a mount, snatching up player gear from both sides? The choice is yours. This all-or-nothing environment makes for naturally fun content that is sure to keep your viewers entertained. Another advantage is the game is home to a very loyal community.

Once you find your niche be it PVE, PVP, or buying a plot of land for your bow crafting business, Albion has it all and is one of the best free-to-play games on the market. To learn more about the game, see the full trailer here. 

Recommended For: Streamers with 5-20 concurrent viewers

Phasmo has been booming since it hit the Steam store for early release back in September 2020. Over Halloween, many streamers and viewers bought into the hype, often teaming up with friends to explore haunted locations as a team of paranormal investigators. Where the game really shines is the jump scares.

If you are a Twitch affiliate, we highly recommend adding a bit donation alert with audio of a scream. Not only does this drive monetization, but it also creates fun moments the community will remember, and it is great for making clips that can later be shared on your socials.

Recommended For: Streamers with 10-50 concurrent viewers.

Since its release in 2009, Minecraft has become the top-selling game of all time. Gamers have become enthralled with the sandbox game. Minecraft is good for community interaction, where people can relax in the game’s nostalgia. 

Minecraft is one of the few games where viewers can play alongside streamers. Getting viewers playing and involved in projects generates huge vested interest.

Minecraft is one of the most versatile games to stream on Twitch, being available on the PC, Nintendo Switch, and many other devices (even your mobile phone)! It is the perfect game to show off your entertainment value.

Recommended For: Streamers with 5-20 concurrent viewers.

Smaller niche game with a loyal fanbase. Suspense helps with retention as viewers want to see how the round ends. Will the streamer be gruesomely murdered?

You can also play the game with your viewers, as long as you remain the murderer searching them out (otherwise, they are able to track you down). This will let other viewers wonder if you will be able to find their community members.

If you have multiple people wanting to play with you, you can use a randomized generator or limit the players to subs.

Recommended For: Streamers with 5-35 concurrent viewers.

Runescape was originally released in 2001 and was immediately embraced by an adoring fanbase. While a younger crowd still plays the current version of Runescape, many of the original players prefer playing and watching OSRS (Old School Runescape) for nostalgia.

You can hone many different niches and skills to create a niche for yourself and keep it interesting for your viewers. Player-owned houses and guilds also present the opportunity to hang out with your viewers.

The viewer of OSRS is an older fanbase, who are now typically between the ages of 25-35 years old. Many of them are employed and have a little extra cash they are willing to use on donations and subs. It’s also very common for community members to gift in-game items and currency.

Recommended For: Streamers with 10-30 concurrent viewers.

Animal Crossing is a new game and one of the biggest of the year. It has a huge following, and people want to see what others are up to. It is a very feel-good game that’s very inclusive. You don’t need a high-skill cap to do well and have fun.

Make sure to weigh in your thoughts about the peach tree vs. pear tree controversy. (Peach trees are far superior in every way).

Recommended For: Streamers with 0-20 concurrent viewers.

The first of the Zelda franchise that was released in 3D, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released in 1998 and has a huge amount of nostalgia surrounding it. All you need to do is visit any “Song of Storms” cover on YouTube to see how much people still love the game and story decades after it was released.

The story-telling aspect of Zelda games, in general, makes for a simple way to play through a game while still being able to interact with your viewers. Like OSRS, these viewers will likely be between 25-35 years old. Many will be there to “re-experience” the game through someone else’s eyes.

Recommended For: Streamers with 0-10 concurrent viewers.

Gwent: The Witcher Card Game generally has a great streamer-to-viewer ratio. Witcher 3 is one of the stand-out games of the last decade but sometimes suffers from being oversaturated with streamers. If you want to start building a following in the Witcher niche, Gwent is a mini-game with a following in its own right.

After you build up a bit of a following, you can play through the Witcher game with a Gwent focus and grow your Witcher following further. Gwent is also a great game for streamers who love to roleplay and cosplay on Twitch.

Recommended For: Streamers with 5-20 concurrent viewers.

Jackbox Games are a group of party games that can be played by a group of people even if they are not in the same room. This means that streamers can play with their viewers.

Many of the games even have Twitch integration, allowing the streamer to play it without having to worry about Twitch trolls Jackbox streamers get a lot of organic traffic from viewers specifically searching the category. This means it’s a great game pick for building a few core viewers who might enjoy your content/ personality enough.

Jackbox is fast-paced and generates a huge amount of content, so while this creates pressure to keep up the pace, it also helps solve a common new streamer issue of dead airtime.

Recommended For: Streamers with 10-40 concurrent viewers.

Great way to start a stream. Very popular for streamers to do 10-30 minutes of marbles while the stream picks up the regular viewers. Gives them something fun to play and mess around in. The game works well if played before a story-driven game that regular viewers won’t want to miss.

The time spent on marbles works as a buffer. Also really good if you need to take a toilet break or make some food. A game of marbles takes 2-3 minutes and gives viewers something to watch in the meantime. Optionally, you can set the game up to allow players to bet channel points from Streamlabs with each other on if a particular marble will come in first.

Recommended For: Streamers with 3-20 concurrent viewers.

StarCraft 2 is one of the most popular, if not the most popular, RTS games of all time. It has a huge viewer base even today and is a great pick if you are skilled at RTS. You can pull in viewers and retain them with impressive strategy and micro.

Recommended For: Streamers with 0-20 concurrent viewers.

Outward is an open-world RPG with a heavy focus on several survival elements, such as warmth, hunger, fatigue, and thirst.

Outward is a great pick for a new streamer primarily due to the immensely popular co-op play. Do you find it difficult to keep talking on stream? Invite an entertaining friend or a fellow streamer and jump into an open-world RPG with no level grind or gear restrictions.

The game’s hardcore mode also implements a system where there is a 20% chance it’s permanent on death, which requires restarting the game. This makes for a great few moments of intense tension when you fall in battle.

In my opinion, the anticipation is even worse than a game where permadeath is guaranteed and is sure to be an entertaining event for your viewers regardless of the outcome.

Recommended For: Streamers with 10-20 concurrent viewers.

Raft is a great game for new streamers still getting a feel for gaming while managing chat. Many games are difficult to balance entertaining your audience while successfully working your way through the content.

Raft is a great pace and offers plenty of time to get your viewers invested in the adventure by taking onboard their opinions when making decisions throughout the game. You can add additional stakes in regards to food, water, or even permadeath, and it has a 2-4 player co-op.

While appearing on the top 3 rows of the category requires a 10-viewer minimum, there is a thriving community who love the game, and every few months, new content is released, and the category blows up again. If you have already streamed it once, it is a really easy game to return to at a later date.

Recommended for Streamers with 10-20 concurrent viewers.

From the gaming giant Blizzard, Hearthstone is a virtual card-collecting game that builds upon the vast and complex lore of World of Warcraft. WoW fans who are also into card games will love Hearthstone, and it might also be one of the best games to stream for them.

Hearthstone may be a card game, but it incorporates tournaments, sometimes up to a global scale, where devoted followers of the game gather to watch their favorite master players.

Needless to say, it’s a game that could potentially attract fans of the game who are looking for streamers who play it. And if you impress your viewers with your card game strategy and quick thinking, it’s a surefire way to make them stay and follow you.

Moreover, it makes a fun game to play on stream, allowing you to engage with your audience. Brace yourself for the heap of comments and advice that will come your way, though.

Recommended For: Streamers with 10-20 concurrent viewers.

Among Us may have peaked when celebrity streamers joined in the fun after the pandemic struck, but it’s still as popular as ever. In fact, according to this statistic, the game has more than 500 million downloads and 3.8 million concurrent players worldwide. If those stats don’t convince you to try to play and stream this game with your friends, then its mechanics would.

The mechanics of Among Us is very simple: you and other survivors are in a spaceship, but some of you are imposters. These imposters are out to kill the others, so you must find them before that happens. And oh, you could be the imposter, too.

It doesn’t take a whodunnit fan to appreciate this game, as everyone could enjoy it. There’s a catch, though: it’s a co-op game. Thus, it’s best to play with friends. If you and your friends are good at making humorous commentary, this might be the best game to stream.

Roblox isn’t just for kids, although there’s no denying that a large part of its fanbase is the younger demographic. It’s an ultra-popular game that allows anyone not just to play games but to create one as well. Other users can also play the game you created. It’s perhaps one of the reasons why Roblox is popular.

With a wide variety of games that Roblox has, you won’t run out of content easily. Moreover, if you’re the creative type who loves to dabble in game creation yourself, you can also stream while creating a game and providing some ideas and tutorials for other game developers.

But because the demographic is younger, you might find more audience for this game on YouTube instead of Twitch since the latter doesn’t allow users below 13 years old. Don’t mistake, though: Roblox still has a lot of adult fans, and its number of viewers speaks for itself.

What if you shrunk to the size of an ant? This is the main premise of Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios’s game survival game, Grounded. A relatively new game released just in 2022, it has been on early access since 2020.

Because a lot of hype was around it, Grounded exploded in popularity when it was released and, according to its trailer, has amassed 10 million players in a short period of time.

The website Twitchstrike lists this game as one of the must-stream games as of June 2023. Crafting, fighting enemies, and building a base are just some of the best features of this game. If you’re a streamer who specializes in looking for a new indie game to stream with a great concept, this one’s for you.

Recommended For: Streamers with 5-35 concurrent viewers.

Sandbox and survival games are big on streaming, and Valheim is no exception. However, Valheim takes it up a notch, as it is more brutal than other popular games of the same genre. Set in a world based on Norse myth, this game can be played with 1 to 10 people, so if you prefer to play it solo, there’s no stopping you.

Like Grounded above, Valheim is one of the top games recommended by aggregator website Twitchstrike that streamers should play live. Amaze your viewer with the use of your wits and skills in surviving the treacherous world. Pair it with either a humorous or insightful commentary, and you’re golden.

Recommended For: Streamers with 50-350 concurrent viewers.

Apex Legends took the world by storm when it was released in 2019. A few years later, it’s still one of the most played games on stream, with an average player count of 228,724 as of May 2023, according to this statistic. Needless to say, many of its fans still watch Apex Legends streams, whether to get tips on play style or just for the sheer enjoyment of it.

It may be a popular game, with many streamers featuring it on their broadcast, making some people feel that getting into the field may make it hard for them to stand out. However, if you have confidence on your play style or simply just enjoy the game, why not join the fun? Fans love to watch streams of shooter games like Apex Legends because it’s fun, thrilling, and exciting.

Recommended For: Streamers with 15-25 concurrent viewers.

Shooter games are popular in the streaming community because of the intensity and thrill it brings to the viewers. If this is your forte, you should try streaming Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.

In this 5v5 tactical shooter game, players fight in close quarters using advanced weapons and gadgets. Both players and viewers will be on the edge of their seats while watching the game play out.

The downside to it, though, is that because it’s a team game, you may need to invite friends or team up with strangers to play the game. However, the advantage is that because it’s a team game, you can invite a viewer to play with you on your next broadcast. This makes for a more engaging and fun stream.

Recommended For: Streamers with 10-30 concurrent viewers.

Stardew Valley is a game that has won the hearts of many. You play the role of a grandchild of a farmer who inherits his farm plot in Stardew Valley. Farm your land, build new structures, and start relationships with NPCs with this fun and cozy game. Every NPC (particularly the marriageable ones) has its own stories, so pay attention to them as you play.

However, you need to be a storyteller who is good at making commentaries if you decide to stream this game. If you have a talent for making people laugh with your jokes and comments, then this one might be for you.