Ghost of Tsushima

Ghost of Tsushima landed in July 2020, right in the middle of lockdown, and we committed 263 hours to Sucker Punch's samurai masterpiece. This was the kind of game you could stream 24/7 because people *wanted* to watch beautiful cinematics and sword combat. The world was shuttered, everyone was looking for escape, and here was this gorgeously-rendered feudal Japan demanding our attention. We streamed through the whole story, side quests, samurai duels, the works. Every session felt like a shared experience — viewers hanging in chat watching us figure out Jin's moral journey, debating the code of honor, getting swept up in the aesthetic. Ghost of Tsushima during 2020 lockdown was a moment.

263 hours in 2020, 97k hours watched — that's nearly 370 hours watched for every hour we streamed. We averaged 374 viewers, solid and steady. That peak of 1,287 viewers tells you people genuinely cared about watching this game. It's not the highest peak we've ever hit, but in the context of 2020 when *every* game was competing for locked-down audiences, those numbers are meaningful. The engagement was sustained because Ghost of Tsushima is just *visually* compelling — you could watch someone else play it and feel like you were getting a cinematic experience.

Ghost of Tsushima brought people together during isolation. Despite the engagement, we lost 85 followers, which honestly doesn't say much — the follower mechanics in 2020 were weird, and single-year games always have different retention patterns. What *mattered* was that peak of 1,287 viewers and the 97k hours watched. That's evidence of a game that captured people's attention during a moment when attention was all they had. The house filled up for this one, not because of drama or competitive moments, but because the experience itself was worth watching.