Twitch gamified its 2023 recap

Twitch—fittingly—is gamifying its annual recap.

For this year’s wrap-up, the streaming platform introduced The Twitch Recap Game, a side-scroller where you play as a little dinosaur collecting goat emojis while clips and stats flick by, summarizing your 2023.

There are three types of recaps Twitch users can choose from at the start of each game: Viewer and Creator, which are self-explanatory, and then Community, which all users have access to, and which shows 2023 stats from across the entire Twitch ecosphere.

The Creator recap is for anyone who streamed at least 10 hours this year. It’ll come with a look at growth metrics, including overall watch time, how many followers they gained, and their top content categories.

The Viewer recap, meanwhile (also with a 10-hour requirement, this one for 10 hours of viewing time) will see things like which streamers they watched the most and how many messages and emojis they sent in creators’ chats.

As for the Community recap, it provided a few stats that let us see what Twitch (and its users) have been up to over the past 12 months.

Those include the fact that Twitch’s partner pool grew by 6,363 new streamers, and its affiliate pool grew by more than 502,000 streamers.

The recap also ran down the top clip of the year (an unfortunate moment from Mizkif) as well as the top five most-watched creators: Kai Cenat, xQc, Tarik, HasanAbi, and summit1g.

Perhaps most interestingly, the Community recap revealed that Twitch’s stories feature, launched in October as a way to improve discoverability and start helping creators grow their followings on-platform, has collectively generated 104.7 million views so far.

“Thanks for being a part of Twitch in 2023,” Twitch said in its year-end blog post. “Twitch wouldn’t be the same without you. And thanks to everyone for a year well played.”

The recap game is available to everyone now, and Twitch is featuring it in a special shelf on the homepage for the next week. Creators who want to appear on the shelf should stream the game to their viewers with the tag #TwitchRecap.