This week, two new online games started the battle for new players and the eyes of viewers on Twitch. The survival game Nightingale launched on February 20th. The Hack’n Slay Last Epoch was released on February 21st. The amazing thing: one of the top players on Twitch, Michael “shroud” Grzesiek (29), is the leader in both games.
How did Nightingale do? EA’s survival game has settled in at number 12 among average players over the last 3 days, between Helldivers 2 and Minecraft. This is a decent, but not dominant, start on Twitch to the release.
At its peak, Nightingale was able to attract 264,811 viewers, which is enough for 7th place.
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Who are the main streamers? The shooter specialist shroud easily won Nightingale. He showed the game for 11 hours and reached almost 31,000 viewers at its peak.
You can see that Twitch has now moved away from gaming and towards “Just Chatting” and reaction streams. Many big streamers no longer look into new games. Well-known variety streamers like shroud, LIRIK and CohhCarnage are holding the flags high. They were also leaders with the last releases Skull and Bones and Helldivers.
In Germany, Gronkh is clearly leading ahead of Shlorox and Dhalucard, both of whom have invested significantly more hours in Nightingale than the old master.
Diablo experts dominate Last Epoch
How did Last Epoch do? With Last Epoch, the average numbers are more difficult to measure because the game has been on Twitch for ages, but has only been in full release since February 21st.
Last Epoch narrowly edged out Nightingale among peak viewers, reaching a peak of 266,419 viewers, almost 2,000 more.
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Who are the leading streamers? Last Epoch wins hack’n-slay expert Quin69, the pride of New Zealand. It is also a leader in related games such as Path of Exile.
However, Shroud is hot on his heels here too, having spent 7 hours in Last Epoch.
In third place is Raxxanterax, who has ripped off 40 hours in Last Epoch in the last 3 days. He said six months ago that he was leaving Diablo 4 and playing Last Epoch.
In Germany, Diablo4 expert jessirocks is in first place, ahead of Maurice Weber.
What does shroud say about Last Epoch? The elite gamer tells Last Epoch that it reminds him a lot of Path of Exile: He likes everything about the game except the quests. He could easily do without that.
He could do without questing in Path of Exile, he just doesn’t like that.
After Palworld, Last Epoch and Nightingale are the most successful new games on Twitch
How did the games compare to the other 2024 releases? In terms of top numbers on Twitch, Last Epoch and Nightingale were now the #2 and #3 new games released in 2024.
Palworld holds the top spot with 434,200 simultaneous viewers. The German Enshrouded follows in fourth place.
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