if you're streaming as a hobby then by
all means play what you love but if you
want to grow your viewer base and make
streaming into a real career then you
need to be tactical about your game
choice early on
that's just the hard truth of streaming
on twitch it is an oversaturated
platform and streaming what you love
will kill your stream that's why today
i'm going to give you
my techniques about how i tell whether
or not a game is good for growth
as well as a few of the ones that i have
used to grow my stream
hello my name is Eljay with
streamscheme.com i'm also a variety
streamer over at twitch.tv/eljayem_ links to both of those in
the description if you have any
questions about today's video you can
check them in the comments or check me
out i should be live
right now which means you can ask me
anything you want
last week i made a video about how to
grow on twitch and one of the things i
cover in that is game choice
and after i release that video i was
curious what other content creators were
doing to choose games and i found a
video
that gave out some of the worst advice
i'd ever seen now i'm not going to get
into specifics about what they said
because i don't want to be
passing on this bad advice or calling
someone out but essentially the advice
they gave was to play valerian on twitch
because it was
popular they were telling you with 0 to
10 viewers
to play a very very saturated game
to grow on twitch and this just just
doesn't work
so today as i said i'm going to show you
two techniques that i use to find games
that will help me grow on twitch
as well as giving you a few of the games
that i've already used that you should
be able to use
as well just quickly so i can nail this
home for you why is it bad advice to
play popular games on twitch
well i said it in my last video and i'm
going to say it again in this one why is
someone going to scroll past people with
thousands of viewers
hundreds of viewers even tens of viewers
to come watch a zero to five
viewer stream and yes you're right it
could be that they like watching smaller
streamers
you see that post on our twitch every
single day oh i was hanging out in a
smaller community and i loved it
that's great but there are 4
700 ish channels live playing ballarat
as of making this video
now if i've just got past 570 of them to
even get to people with zero to five
that means there are around forty two
hundred
people streaming between zero and five
if you think you're going to get
recommended as a small community with
those odds
then i'm sorry that is very bad luck so
with that out of the way let's talk
about how you can pick a game to
actually grow on twitch
my first tip you can do entirely on
twitch first you want to go check out a
game and look at the category followers
these are the people who have hit follow
on the category or game choice
now if someone's hit follow on a
category or game choice it means that
they are absolutely going to get
recommended
this category or game and the people
streaming it so you want to find a game
that has a
large number i recommend 800 000 plus
once you're in the category i want you
to look at the top few rows and compare
where your average viewers are and
figure out where you would sit if you
were playing this game
so the higher up you are in your
category means the more likely people
are going to click you
i also cover how to create a clickable
thumbnail in my growth video which again
is linked in the description
so if you're curious about that make
sure you check it out a great example of
a game choice using this is stardew
valley when i started streaming stardew
valley i was streaming to 8 to 10
average viewers
and i managed to grow from that to 35
average viewers with mainly
streaming in this category and every now
and then doing some just chatting and
community building
stardew valley has around 800 000
category followers
and usually you only need to have five
maybe 10 viewers to reach the top
three rows which is fantastic for you
furthermore another reason why this game
is great to play as a smaller streamer
is because the npcs are very lifelike
very chatty so it gives you someone to
bounce off as someone with maybe a
slower chat
it's also a story driven game but it's
also very open world so you kind of
write your own which is great for people
who want to really engage with you
the community in this game is very
active on all platforms and care a lot
about it which is fantastic
and you might be thinking yeah but the
category only averages 500 800 total
viewers
that's not many viewers well if you've
got zero to five viewers 500 to 800
is a huge number of people who might
click on your stream
so maybe starjetter isn't for you and
that's totally fine you can use this
technique
to really figure out whether or not
you'll actually be able to get
discovered in the category
but if you're still drawing blanks on
what kind of games to play then i'm
going to show you a way to spy on other
streamers
and figure out what they got most of
their followers through now before i
show you how to spy on your fellow
streamer i will ask you like this video
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okay so for this method you're gonna
need to find a streamer who has a
similar size to you and has a similar
type of content to your current
audience or the audience that you want
to reach now i'm going to use myself as
an example just so it's easier
but as i said find someone of your size
so let's head over to twitchtracker.com
and we're going to search up the
streamer that you've chosen
as you can see here you do get a lot of
information straight away and you can
take some time to look through it but i
recommend scrolling down to most
streamed games
you'll see there from left to right they
have the most streamed games of this
channel by total hours
i want you to click see more on this and
you're gonna click followers
this will rank the games they've played
by the followers gamed per hour
instantly you'll want to check their
average viewers of these games for
example you can look at mine and see
when i played breath of the wild i
received 88
average so if you can't maintain that
average when playing it you might not be
able to gain 3.1 followers per hour
playing
you can also see that i played ruthless
79.5 hours and still managed to get 3.1
followers per hour
so this is a great example of a game
that's fantastic to grow if you can sit
between 50 to 100 viewers
and you enjoy it obviously so another
thing you can click
rather than most streamed games is when
you're on their homepage
you can click on recent streams and then
sort by followers as well
this will let you see the streams this
person got the most followers of
in recent times from here you can even
deep dive into them clicking on a stream
this will pull up a graph to show you
when people clipped followed
and you can even work out when raids
happened to get an idea of the follow
again was just because of a large raid
and not the game at the time
using this information you can really
proof check to see whether a game is
good for you
because you can see if it was good for
another streamer who's similar to you so
what is the tldr the tldr
is essentially two check those category
followers look at the top three rows of
the
category to see where you'll fit use
twitch tracker to see whether or not
a game is good for growth and spy on
your fellow streamers to find out what
games they played for growth
oh and fifth go watch my how to grow
video it goes into a lot of different
stuff in a lot more detail
with all of this you should be able to
start generating some great ideas for
what you can play on stream for growth
or at least check out the ones you
already have so just quickly i'm gonna
fire off my top five games for growth on
twitch
first stardew valley i honestly believe
this is one of the greatest games for
new streamers to play
as i said it's great for chatting it's
great for low average viewers and people
love this game two i'd recommend playing
darkest dungeon
it's quite a small game but if you have
zero viewers you'll often get people
dropping in
and you can name your characters after
your viewers and they get them invested
in the story
three is minecraft people are always
going to love minecraft they're always
going to see it
it's a bit of an anomaly when it comes
to this system i've told you about but
it's still a great game for it be aware
though you do get a lot of younger
viewers which means it can be a rough
category to stream in if you don't have
mods
four check out breath of the wild
because it is a fantastic game to grow
people still play it to this day and
they love it
with breath of the wild two coming out
there's a lot of hype so people checking
out the category again
and number five animal crossing new
horizon it is a very casual very chill
game
and you get a very wholesome audience
who want to check out smaller islands
and just
chill so those are my two different
techniques to checking out a game
category those are my top five
recommendations if you want to hear more
about them let me know in the comments
and i will go through and do a top 10
list
otherwise i hope you've enjoyed this
video and i will see you next week
