The 2025 edition of Summer Game Fest saw an 89% year-over-year growth in live peak viewership, according to StreamsCharts.
Airing live across YouTube, Twitch and X (formerly Twitter) on June 6, the Geoff Keighley-hosted video game showcase, which was held out of the YouTube Theater at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, reached more than 50 million livestreams. That marks a record high in viewership for the event, which is now in its sixth year.
Major games announced or further teased during the show included the reveal of “Resident Evil Requiem,” “Atomic Heart 2,” “Scott Pilgrim EX,” “Mouse: P.I. for Hire,” “Game of Thrones: War for Westeros,” “Marvel’s Deadpool VR,” “007 First Light,” “Death Stranding 2: On the Beach” and “ARC Raiders.”
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Per a Friday press release from Summer Game Fest, which is produced by Keighley and iam8bit, “In total, the peak concurrent audience for SGF reached more than 3 million live simultaneous viewers across Twitch and YouTube, with significant year over year growth on both platforms in terms of average viewership, watch time and co-streams.”
Peak viewership stood on YouTube (via account for The Game Awards, which is the sister event to Summer Game Fest and is used as the feed for the SGF livestream as well) was up 43% compared to 2024, with the average audience up 38%, per StreamCharts data provided by SGF.
The archived video version of the live show has currently racked up more than eight million views. In total, the peak concurrent audience on YouTube reached over 1.5 million viewers globally,
On gaming-focused social media platform Twitch, peak viewership for SGF was up 38% with more than 8,900 channels co-streaming the show. The total concurrent live audience stood at more than 1.4 million viewers worldwide.
SGF was the top global trend on X/Twitter with 17 out of the top 30 trends in the U.S. related to Summer Game Fest, per the event.
