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Top 10 streamed games of the week: views drop across the board apart from Dota 2

Top 10 streamed games of the week: views drop across the board apart from Dota 2

InfluencerUpdate.biz has teamed up with esports and streaming analytics firm Stream Hatchet to bring you weekly charts of the most popular games in the streaming space.

This chart documents the most watched games by hours across Twitch, YouTube Gaming, Mixer and Facebook.

Each week we'll be documenting the top ten most watched titles across all the major streaming platforms so you can see which games are thriving among content creators and which titles are waning in popularity. We also have a chart documenting the week's biggest content creators.

This chart covers the week commencing June 10th. Want to see last week's chart? Click here.

Most watched games

There are red arrows across the board this week as all but two games take a hit. This sees League of Legends take the top spot, racking up over 26.2 million hours watched.

Usual champion Fortnite moves into second place after a 21.4 per cent decrease in hours watched. Grand Theft Auto V remains in third despite a 65. per cent decrease in hours watched also.

Dota 2 moves up to fourth place from eighth with the largest growth of the week. A 34.4 per cent rise in hours watched sees the title soar over 9.6 million hours watched, a lot of which can be attributed to the ongoing Starladder ImbaTV Minor. Starladder's Twitch channel has also moved back into the top channels chart this week.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds moves down to fifth after a 3.5 per cent decrease in hours watched, and PUBG mobile moves down one spot to sixth after a larger 14.8 per cent decrease in hours watched. 

Counter-Strike: Global offensive falls to seventh after a 16.4 per cent decrease, and World of Warcraft falls to eighth after a 35.2 per cent drop - the largest on the chat this week. Top WoW streamer Asmongold has also dropped views in the last seven days. 

Overwatch takes ninth place after a barely noticeable 0.05 per cent drop in views. The Overwatch League is still going strong so changes to Overwatch's watch hours are minimal. Hearthstone keeps tenth place for another week after a 0.5 per cent increase in views, the only other increase on the chart this week aside from Dota 2.

Most watched games by hours

Editor

Danielle Partis is editor of PocketGamer.biz and former editor of InfluencerUpdate.biz. She was named Journalist of the Year at the MCV Women in Games Awards 2019, as well as in the MCV 30 under 30 2020. Prior to Steel Media, she wrote about music and games at Team Rock.