After two months of tracking MH on Twitch

Quick disclaimer: I built MH Tracker, and it’s still in an early phase. These numbers only cover Twitch categories we poll, from when logging started on June 8, 2026 through early August. About two months. Useful, not complete. Not the whole life of Wilds.

Wilds launched in early 2025. By the time tracking started, Capcom had already shipped Title Update 4 (Gogmazios and the late endgame stuff), the Stories 3 collab gear, and Stories 3: Twisted Reflection itself (March 13). So this isn’t launch hype. It’s post-update Wilds, plus people still on World / Rise / GU, plus Stories 3 a few months after release.

After two months of tracking we’ve seen about 29,600 streamers, ~131k sessions, and ~370k hours across the MH titles we watch. On a normal night you’ll see roughly 200-260 live MH streams, and if you add their viewers together you get around 1,000-1,100 people watching MH across the whole category. That’s the directory as we see it, not one big channel.

How many viewers most MH streams actually get

Most of them are small. That’s just what the data shows so far.

About 81% of MH channels average 1-5 viewers. Median is 2. The 75th percentile is 4. Only about 8% average 10 or more. Partners are a tiny slice of the set (a couple hundred) and they do pull more; everyone else is Affiliates and regular accounts filling the category.

So if you’re live doing tempered hunts or an open SOS lobby at three viewers, you’re not failing at streaming. You’re normal for MH in this dataset. Holding a steady 10 already puts you ahead of most of the category. 25+ is uncommon. If you want to grow, plan around regulars, Discord, and people who join hunts with you. The Wilds directory alone will not do that work for you.

Side game vs main game

Side game
A lot of people treat MH like that. 41% of streamers only did one MH session in this whole window. The median streamer has two sessions and a bit over four hours total. Fine for a variety schedule. Bad if you think category browsing will find you an audience. Wilds especially is full of other 1-5 viewer streams doing the same grind.

If MH is occasional for you: pick a timeslot, do a real session length (median is about 2.4 hours; only ~20% are under an hour), and put the hunt in the title. Open lobby / SOS / solo. Don’t expect strangers from the directory to build your chat.

Main game
Then hours matter. Only about 29% of streamers hit 10+ hours of MH in two months. About 3.5% did 20+ sessions. Showing up on a schedule is what separates “I streamed Wilds once” from people who actually keep an MH audience.

Same days help. A repeatable reason to tune in helps more: urgent quests, Artian rolls, true solo, support-hunter chaos, Stories chapters. A few people who know your cart count beat a dead directory slot.

One more useful bit: 91% of streamers stayed on one MH title. Only 9% touched two or more. Rotating World / Rise / GU when Wilds feels stale is still uncommon. You can do that without looking like you abandoned the series.

Which game to stream

Share of tracked MH hours after two months:

• Wilds ~59% of hours, ~20k streamers. Biggest category, also the most competition at 1-5 viewers. About 9% of Wilds channels hit 10+ typical viewers.
• World ~20% of hours. Still very alive. Similar viewer split to Wilds, fewer people live at once.
• Rise ~10%. Smaller, a bit softer on the 10+ rate.
• Stories 3 ~3.4%. Smaller directory; about 11% of those channels hit 10+.
• GU ~3% of hours but about 15% of its channels hit 10+. Fewer streamers, easier to notice.

Live board usually looks like Wilds as the majority, World second, Rise third, then Stories / GU / older stuff.

Wilds if you want the biggest active player base and accept a crowded category. World if your people still want Iceborne. Stories 3 if you’re fine with Monstie RPG pacing and a thinner directory. GU / portable if you like the old games and don’t need a packed lobby.

Pre-GU entries that are still getting streamed

GU is the big “old game” people still know about (~3% of hours, ~680 streamers). Underneath it, the pre-GU catalog is quieter, but it is not dead. These are titles first released before Generations Ultimate (August 2018), not counting World, which is the same year chronologically but a different generation of the series.

Across that pre-GU set we saw about 1,230 unique streamers, ~5,200 sessions, and ~15,300 hours. That’s roughly 4% of all tracked MH hours in this window. Spread across a lot of older categories that still boot up on stream.

What’s actually moving:

• Stories - ~1,370 sessions, ~420 streamers, ~3,900 hours. Largest pre-GU-dated category in this window, and separate from Stories 3. That is not only nostalgia for the 3DS original: Capcom remastered Stories in 2024 for Switch, PS4, and PC, so a lot of this activity is people playing (and streaming) it on modern hardware. Stories 2 also got wider console/PC availability around the same era; it just sits outside this pre-GU cut.
• Freedom Unite - ~900 sessions, ~210 streamers, ~2,400 hours. Still the PSP classic people come back to.
• 4 Ultimate - ~620 sessions, ~150 streamers, ~1,800 hours. About 12% of those channels hit 10+ typical viewers.
• Portable 3rd - ~440 sessions, ~100 streamers, ~1,350 hours.
• 3 Ultimate - ~320 sessions, ~90 streamers, ~900 hours.
• Tri, original Monster Hunter, MH2, and the early Freedom games - smaller, but each still put up hundreds of hours.
• Frontier G (plus a little Frontier Online) - niche but real; Frontier G alone is ~2,300 hours, and about 15% of its channels hit 10+.
• Generations (3DS, not Ultimate) - almost gone (~45 hours, ~11 streamers). People who stayed on that era are on GU.

If you stream 4U, FU, P3rd, or the Stories remaster, you’re not inventing an audience from nothing. You’re also not fighting Wilds for directory space. Same lesson as GU: fewer concurrent streams, slightly better odds someone notices a consistent schedule. Bring the old lobby (or Monstie) energy on purpose. Don’t expect the category page to do the work.

When people stream

Days are fairly flat, with a slight bump Thu-Sun. Peak hours on our clock (Europe/Sofia) are late morning into early afternoon, which lines up with Japan evening plus EU daytime. English leads on hours, then Japanese by a lot, then Spanish, French, Chinese, German, Portuguese. JP-evening / EU-afternoon overlap is where more of the global MH crowd already sits. US prime isn’t empty. It’s just not the densest stretch in this data.

What changed over those two months

Week of June 15 was the high point (~17.6k sessions, ~8.4k unique streamers). Then it leveled off. Mid/late July was more like 14k sessions and under 7k unique streamers a week. The share of channels at 10+ stayed roughly steady.

That matches Wilds as a game right now: past TU4, past the Stories collab, still hunted online, not launch-week crazy. Streaming followed. Spike, then plateau. You’re joining a stable niche, not catching a hype wave.

Straight advice

Expect low viewer counts. Build the stream so a handful of people can talk hunts without it feeling pointless.

If MH is a side title, schedule it and don’t bet on discovery.

If it’s your main title, be consistent and give people a reason beyond “playing Wilds.”

Pick the game on purpose. Wilds = most hunters, most competing streams. Older titles and Stories = fewer streams, slightly better odds of standing out. Pre-GU classics (4U, FU, P3rd, and friends) still have a pulse if that era is your home.

Stuck at 2-8 viewers for a while? That’s where most of the category lives in what we’ve tracked so far. Keep going if you like the hunts.

I built MH Tracker. It’s still early. Numbers above are from about two months of polling Twitch MH categories, 8 Jun - 8 Aug 2026, and will get better as the tracker and dataset mature.