The role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3 is making a strong start worldwide on Twitch at release, while Germany is lagging a bit behind. Notably, some streamers who are not among the usual suspects at the top of the charts are rising with this role-playing game. In the USA, the veteran role-player CohhCarnage dominates the charts: The 39-year-old even has a character in the game. In Germany, Maurice Weber is in the lead.
How popular is Baldur’s Gate 3 on Steam?
- Baldur’s Gate 3 was the biggest game in the world on Twitch for the last 3 days and surpassed LoL and GTA 5 with 11.3 million hours watched (via sullygnome).
- In German Twitch, it remained far behind LoL and GTA 5 with 533,648, ranked 3rd among games.
- It’s interesting to see which streamers particularly benefit from the hype surrounding Baldur’s Gate 3.
CohhCarnage is the biggest streamer worldwide for Baldur’s Gate 3
Who is leading internationally? The 3 biggest streamers at launch on Twitch are:
- The veteran role-player CohhCarnage, who usually does not play in this viewer dimension: He currently has 3 times more viewers than usual.
- The site “Fextralife”, which ranks so high once again because their wiki pages constantly embed the stream: With this “trick,” they already ranked high in 2022 with games that needed a lot of guides, such as Elden Ring and Lost Ark.
- Sodapoppin, he is one of the top streamers on Twitch, but usually makes “quirky” content. With Baldur’s Gate 3, he has apparently found a game he likes.
In the lower ranks are streamers like Shooter god shroud or New Zealand’s humanitarian Quin69.
“Sex” clips dominate Twitch.
What kind of clips are popular on Twitch? The top clip on Twitch features shroud with a sex scene that simply won’t go away. The ban hammer is already hovering over him (Warning, the game is 18+ and so is the clip: via twitch).
The second most popular clip is by Sodapoppin and revolves around the genitalia in the game:
Character creation is also very popular in Germany:
Streamer with own character in the game goes all out
Why is CohhCarnage doing so well? You don’t normally see CohhCarnage so far up in the charts: The 39-year-old is a known figure, but usually has a heart for underdogs. He is someone who discovers games. With “hype,” he usually has nothing to do.
But “Baldur’s Gate 3” is his game. The Twitch streamer has been following this role-playing game for a long time and even has a own character in the game, who is “super annoying”. At the release, he persevered and streamed unusually much.
CohhCarnage also says he has never been on Twitch as consecutively as he currently has: He was online for over 13 hours a day twice.
How does it look in Germany? In Germany, someone named Maurice Weber is at the top of the charts, someone you wouldn’t necessarily expect:
- Maurice Weber sits at 75,480 hours in 1st place: The GameStar “in-house” streamer has made a name for himself on Twitch in a short time with his preference for strategy and role-playing games
- In 2nd place is RoyalPhunk, who was significantly stronger in peak and average viewer numbers than Weber, but only streamed Baldur’s Gate 3 for 7 hours
- In 3rd place follows Shurjoka,Germany’s player of the year 2023.
For typical German gaming streamers, Baldur’s Gate 3 does not seem to be a game. The top German streamers focus more on games like FIFA, LoL, or shooters.
Currently, top German streamers on Twitch are diligently opening loot boxes in CS:GO.
