As I warned people in the November month in review, once we hit the end of the year a lot of sites will start rocking the annual recaps, and I am there for it. For 2025 the first out of the gate for a recap of my time is Twitch, which I am going to guess has a December 1 to November 30 model for that. All the better to get there first I guess,
Twitch is Twitch
First up in their presentation is the big number; how many hours did I spend watching Twitch in 2025? Survey says…
Hours… sort of watched
559 hours. That is a lie of course, as I would guess more than 90% of that time was Twitch sitting in a muted browser tab in the background so I could collect Twitch Drops. But, it is a number. And the number is down from last year, where I hit my peak at 599 hours.
There must have been fewer drops.
The last few years rank like this:
- 2025 – 559 hours
- 2024 – 599 hours
- 2023 – 325 hours
- 2022 – 214 hours
Still, I appear to have been a lot more drop focused in 2024 and 2025 than in past years. There was a time when I did actually watch… or at least listen to… a lot of stuff on Twitch. But never 500+ hours of it.
Next up, which categories did I watch… also known as the “which channels had the most drops for me” round up, because it 100% tracks with that metric.
My Twitch 2025 games
This list, should the graphic not load:
- EVE Online (top 10% of viewers!)
- No Man’s Sky (top 10% of viewers!)
- World of Tanks
- World of Warcraft
- Palia (Top 10% of viewers!)
EVE Online is almost always at the top of the list as CCP is totally into the stream scene and they have drop campaigns running all the time. There is one running RIGHT NOW, as I write this. It is for EverMarks, which are not that thrilling… but I’ve already collected my drop. That is 4+ more hours of EVE Online “watched” right there. No wonder I am in the top 10% of viewers.
The only repeat on the list from last year is World of Warcraft, proof that something in my is still interested in the game. However my play time for 2025… we’ll get to that in January, but it was low.
No Man’s Sky, on the other hand, I have played quite a bit of this year… and their drops are high quality. I have gotten some nice items for the game including a few interesting ship designs. Again, top 10% viewer. Gimme those drops!
I had a bit of a World of Tanks revival earlier in the year for their anniversary. It didn’t last long, but I spent some time collecting drops for the game. They are also big on drop campaigns.
Then there is Palia, which I think I started playing back in 2024 initially because of drops. Not the first time I tried a game because they had a Twitch drops campaign, so maybe there is something to it. Then Ula picked up the game so we’ve all tried it out. My drops came in handy then… sort of. They also take up limited inventory space, so I haven’t redeemed half of them in game yet.
So who did I watch to get all those drops? My top channel was CCP!
Where I spent most of my time idling…
The official CCP channel accounted for almost a quarter of my watch time in 2025.
Why CCP? Not just for the drops… though they do occasionally do campaigns where you must watch their channel for the drops… but also for channel points. You can turn in 10K points for an in-game GalNet ship SKIN, which I did five times… and they were all repeats. No luck on that front.
I also sent 22 of my 32 total chat messages in their channel. I don’t chat a lot on Twitch… because it is muted in a tab in the background most of the time.
The four runners up were these streamers.
The next four of the top five
For those who cannot see the images, the top five shakes out as:
- CCP – 132 hours
- Mind1 – 48 hours
- zeh Pando – 45 hours
- CrashNaps – 40 hours
- Gothicsnowangel – 23 hours
The top four there, all repeats from 2024, are EVE Online focused. Again, a lot of drops. Meanwhile, Gothicsnowangel has played Palia and No Man’s Sky and a few other things I have collected drops for. I believe she used to play EVE Online at one point, which is how she got on my list. Anyway, she provided a lot of non-EVE Online drops for me this year.
At one point I was tracking the hours per channel year over year, but then I stopped watching a couple of regular channels and it started to switch up a bit, so I’ve decided to let that go, except for CCP, which has been on the list consistently. So here is their record:
- 2025 – 132 hours
- 2024 – 74 hours
- 2023 – 84 hours
- 2022 – 76 hours
- 2020 – 9 hours
Also, Twitch gave me a special badge for being in the top 20% of viewers for 2025.
Is it a drop? If not, do I care?
I have no idea where Twitch badges show up or what they do, but I guess I have one.
Anyway, that is my take away from Twitch in 2025… I watched a lot of EVE Online, by which I mean I left EVE Online related Twitch channels playing in a muted browser tab.
Twitch has your recap, if you watched any, in the user menu when you are watching. It is probably in the client somewhere as well, but I generally just watch in a browser.
Recap menu location
Links are also plastered all over the screen right now, but that might change. But the menu might change as well.
And, of course, they give you a nice summary info graphic to tie the whole thing together.
My 2025 in Twitch
They also have buttons to let you share that infographic to all the places, if that is your thing.
So there is Twitch 2025 summed up. Who is next on the list?
Oh, and I have all my past recap posts here: