Grand Theft Auto V hit its highest hours watched total of the year after setting a new clip for the role play streaming game every week in March.
The following titles are ranked according to the total number of hours watched on Twitch 
, from Monday to the following Sunday, with data compiled using TEO Analytics.
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Getting Grand
Grand Theft Auto V role play streaming practically emerged out of thin air in March to become one of the most-watched forms of content on Twitch, and that success has continued into April with a weekly viewership total that surpasses any of the title’s viewership figures in March.
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Led by the most-watched streamer from March, Jaryd “Summit1g” Lazar, the title was able to accrue 19M hours watched beating out the top influencer-driven battle royale games like Fortnite and Apex Legends.
While the title has some top-heavy qualities to it, some of the top streamers aren’t as well-known like Lazar or Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris. “Vader,” a streamer that is endemic to the role play streaming scene has managed to muster over 1M hours watched this week. Additionally, Alan “Alanzoka” Ferreira has seen a boost in viewership since beginning to stream GTA.
It should be noted that a majority of GTA V RP traffic is coming from the NoPixel, a whitelisted RP server that requires approval to join and gives priority to high-profile streamers like Lazar.
Past its Prime?
In February, Apex Legends burst onto Twitch in a way that no game ever has, including 2018’s most-watched title Fortnite, but in the past month, the game’s numbers have slowly declined.
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It’s not all bad news for the new battle royale title though. Despite the dip, viewership is beginning to find what could be a point of stagnation around the 6-9M hours watched per week mark.
That total isn’t enough to keep it competitive with the leader in the battle royale marketplace, Fortnite, but the game has been able to carve out an audience large enough to keep it as one of the most-watched games on Twitch on a weekly basis.
From the Shadows
Despite being a single-player title, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has managed to stay in the top 10 for three weeks. While most story-mode titles fail to make it into the top 10 for more than just one week, the game has managed to attract playtime from 2018’s most-watched streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins as well as multi-streamer game-guide channel Fextralife.
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Blevins’ ability to mobilize his Fortnite audience and retain an average of 15K concurrent viewers for Sekiro helped him provide the title with 423K hours watched last week, while Fextralife streamed the game for 33.67 hours of airtime to the tune of 809K hours watched.
Outside of those top names, the title is packed with streamers who averaged less than 10K CCV making it one of the less top-heavy titles to make it into the top 10.
