Beat Saber

We picked up Beat Saber during 2019-2020 when the VR rhythm craze was hitting different. Those were the early days of Quest adoption, and the house was genuinely hyped about lightsabers and synchronized blocks. The 227-viewer peak across those two years shows what Beat Saber meant in that era—it transcended the usual VR niche stuff. Everyone was dropping into streams to watch people slash colored blocks to dubstep. Sure, it seems simple now, but there was something genuinely contagious about watching someone nail a perfect run to the beat. We gave it 14 hours of our time back then, and the community showed up. It was the game that proved VR could go mainstream, and we got to broadcast that moment to thousands of viewers discovering rhythm gaming in three dimensions.

Fourteen hours streamed with nearly 2,605 hours watched—that's solid engagement for a rhythm game where most runs max out at five minutes. We averaged 191 viewers, with that peak of 227 showing the spike when new content or community events hit. Two followers gained might sound small, but Beat Saber fans are ride-or-die once they're in. The numbers reflect a niche-but-devoted audience that knew exactly what they were tuning in for.