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EA Sports FC 25 is one of two new games to crack Twitch's top 10 in 2024

The only other fully new title to creep into Twitch's top 10 was Palworld in January 2024.

TJ Denzer

October 24, 2024 4:12 PM

Image via Electronic Arts

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The StreamElements State of the Stream report for September 2024 has arrived, and with it comes a wealth of new information about the health and popularity of Twitch and various topics on the platform. This month’s big news? Well, besides Dota 2 The International giving a healthy boost of viewership, EA Sports FC 25 became one of the few games to push into Twitch’s top 10 most viewed topics for a month.

StreamElements posted its State of the Stream September 2024 report with data from its analytics partner at Rainmaker.gg. There, we can see the Twitch top 10 for the month and how it shook out. EA Sports FC 25 crept onto the bottom of the list at #10 with 31 million hours viewed. It becomes only the second new game to break Twitch’s top 10 in 2024, the other being Palworld, which enjoyed a #6 spot on January 2024 when its hype was at a fever pitch.

EA Sports FC 25’s viewership speaks to the game’s popularity as Electronic Arts aims to get away from the expensive FIFA license and venture out on its own with international soccer simulation games. It wasn’t exactly the winning formula if you look at our Shacknews review, but EA is still establishing it as the premiere experience in soccer sims. Of course, it still has some catching up to do if it wants to beat numbers like those of Dota 2, which were up 78 percent month-to-month on the back of The International 2024 viewership.

With the Twitch top 10 shaking up last month, stay tuned for more StreamElements State of the Stream reporting as it drops, right here at Shacknews.

TJ Denzer

Senior News Editor

TJ Denzer is a player and writer with a passion for games that has dominated a lifetime. He found his way to the Shacknews roster in late 2019 and has worked his way to Senior News Editor since. Between news coverage, he also aides notably in livestream projects like the indie game-focused Indie-licious, the Shacknews Stimulus Games, and the Shacknews Dump. You can reach him at tj.denzer@shacknews.com and also find him on Twitter @JohnnyChugs.