The relationship you have with your audience is the most crucial part of streaming.
Plenty of well-meaning streamers make this fatal mistake: they neglect their viewers.
Your audience—the community you build during your Twitch journey—is solely responsible for your success. It’s important to acknowledge them.
But you can’t wine and dine an audience. What kind of activity could be appropriate for your viewership?
Today, I’m going to walk you through the magic of Twitch integration games. By the time you’re through with this article, you’ll have all the tools you need to build a loyal, engaged audience.
Let’s dive in.
What Is a Twitch Integrated Game?
A game with Twitch integration is a game that allows for viewer participation. This could mean anything from the ability to make suggestions, customize the streamer’s gaming experience, or actively participate in the game itself.
It’s also possible that the game may require viewers to join a third-party website. If you’ve ever played Kahoot in a classroom, that’s the kind of experience you’ll get with a Twitch-integrated game.
Now you’ll need to decide which game(s) you want to play on your channel.
This particular list is broken into two categories: most popular and streamer’s choice. You’ll get a feel for the games that are most often recommended, and a few of my own suggestions based on successes I’ve witnessed.
We’ll start with the most popular:
The 9 Most Popular Games with Twitch Integration
1. Marbles On Stream
“Marbles on Stream is a Marble Racing game for everyone! You can simulate races yourself or stream it on Twitch with your viewers!” – Marbles On Stream
Nothing is more unpredictable than a game of Marbles.
You don’t have any control over the outcome whatsoever—the marbles, map, and competition are random. Just have your viewers type !play in the chat before you start the race and watch the chaos unfold.
You’ll need to download Marbles on Steam before streaming. Launch the game, click in the top right corner to connect to your Twitch account, then select from pre-made or community-built maps.
There are also two other commands your viewers can use:
- !boost to boost speed
- !target (@username) or !target random to attack
Marbles currently has 2.1k viewers on Twitch and 444k followers. Not too shabby, especially if you’re looking for a niche game to try out.
Download: Steam
Price: Free
2. Words on Stream
“Words On Stream, the free game that will boost your live streams on Twitch and YouTube.” – wos.gg
Words on Stream is a free-to-play anagram game for Twitch. It’s perfect to warm up an audience, entertain viewers while you’re AFK, or set the tone for an easygoing stream.
The set-up is easy: just download the game from its website and join to connect to Twitch automatically. Once you start streaming the main game screen, you’ll be ready to go.
Words on Stream will provide a scrambled word for you and your audience to figure out together.
Viewers can make their guesses in the Twitch chat to help—but be wary of the padlock feature that prevents guesses for more than one word at a time.
You can also run Words on Stream while you’re AFK. Just put it on “autopilot” mode and entertain your viewers while you take a quick break.
Download: Online
Price: Free
3. Chess
“Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 50 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!” – Chess.com
Chess has a whopping viewership of 36.5k and a following of 2M on Twitch.
To take advantage of the hype, just head over to chess.com and start streaming! No download needed.
You don’t have to be an expert to stream Chess. Their website allows you to select your playing level, and you’ll be matched with similar opponents. You can then choose opponents randomly or play with a friend if you have an account.
Though there’s not currently an extension to play Chess with chat, there is an extension to allow viewers to vote on your next move. But you can always have chat comment their usernames to use the “play with a friend” option.
Download: Online
Price: Free
4. 7 Days to Die
“7 Days is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games.” – 7daystodie.com
7 Days to Die might take the cake for the most exciting game on this list.
You’ll play as a survivor in a zombie apocalypse who must collect tools, weapons, and find shelter to stay alive.
The twist? Viewers can earn “Pimp Points” by typing in chat that can be redeemed to influence your survival. They can spawn enemies, vehicles, tools, supplies, and more to help or hinder the player.
Good news for the player: there are cooldowns on certain actions that prevent viewers from spamming. And in even better news, viewers are only allowed so many actions as the player progresses (i.e., you’ll have a better shot at survival in the beginning).
To access Twitch Integration, simply click the “Esc” button and modify the viewers’ abilities as you see fit. You can allow both actions and vision effects, neither, or only one.
Download: Website
Price: $24.99
5. Party Hard 2
“Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!” – Partyhard2.com
Viewer discretion advised: Party Hard 2 is not for the faint of heart! Or the young streamer.
The player must stop a 3 AM neighborhood rave—along with a drug cartel and an alien invasion—without alerting the police.
As for the Twitch Integration component, viewers can influence the “party” by spawning partiers, traps, other items, and even attempt to bribe the cops or kill you. They can also leap from stream to stream while maintaining their points and badges.
To activate Twitch Integration, navigate to your options, settings, and set your votes per limit.
Download: Steam
Price: $19.99
6. Kukoro: Stream Chat Games
“Kukoro: Stream Chat Games is the ultimate mini-game compilation to engage your Twitch community. With this game, your audience will be able to play with you in real time receiving the individual relevance they deserve, growing your channel day by day.” – Heynaugames.com
Kukoro is a collection of fourteen unique minigames wherein viewers can control their own avatars with chat commands.
Streamers can choose maps based on qualities like action, strategy, investigation, sociological, and more to engage with their community.
Though Kukoro is still in its developmental phases, there are plenty of charming features and play styles to suit every audience. This includes customizable skins, missions, experience points, and the viewer’s ability to highlight their nickname to stand out from the crowd.
Kukoro also has a fairly established fanbase with 35.5k followers on Twitch.
Download: Steam
Price: $4.99
7. Choice Chamber
“Choice Chamber is a real-time, crowdsourced, procedurally generated game where your fate is in everyone’s hands.” – Choicechamber.com
Choice Chamber is exactly what the title suggests: a series of potentially dangerous 2D chambers that are controlled entirely by your viewers’ choices. Advance from chamber to chamber with the help (or hindrance) of your audience.
Viewers can control everything from the comfort of their chatroom. With the click of a mouse, they can supply you with items, change the enemy’s difficulty, save you from lava, and more. No two rounds will be alike in the Choice Chamber.
Just type in your Twitch username once you’ve loaded the game, assign a bot to chat, and let the fun begin!
Download: Steam
Price: $9.99
8. Da Stream Charades
“Play charades with your stream! Play with pre-selected words, your own, your channel emotes or have chat enter their own.” – Dastreamcharades.com
Who doesn’t like an old-fashioned game of Charades?
Da Stream Charades allows you to play with your Twitch audience with just one click on their website—no download needed.
Once you connect your Twitch account, just hit “Start Game” and Da Stream Charades will open up another browser with your word (be sure to hide it from chat!).
With hundreds of words to act out in categories like Global Twitch Emotes, Video Games, and Twitch Live Streamers, you’ll surely have an entertaining experience ahead for your audience.
Download: Online
Price: Free
9. Minion Masters
“Minion Masters is an insanely simple – but challenging to master – Online Strategic & Dynamic game both for competitive and casual players.” – Minionmastersthegame.com
Minion Masters earned its spot on this list from its impressive fanbase of 90.2k followers on Twitch. Just download from Steam and enjoy a 1v1 or 2v2 playstyle in this card game/tower defense hybrid.
Admittedly, there’s not much of a Twitch Integration component in Minion Masters. By downloading this Twitch extension, you’ll allow viewers to appear in your game as an avatar that can only talk in-game, spectate, or display unique emojis from the crowd.
But what this game lacks in audience control it makes up for with game options: you can select from Control, Aggressive, Swarm, or Giant Minions, and collect over 200 in-game cards.
Download: Steam
Price: Free
Streamer’s Choice: 5 Overall Best Games with Twitch Integration
1. The Jackbox Party Pack (1-8)
“Jackbox Games is the party game-making studio best known for hit games like YOU DON’T KNOW JACK, Quiplash, Fibbage, Drawful, Trivia Murder Party, and more!” – Jackboxgames.com
Jackbox is by far one of the most popular games out there—period.
Every installment comes with a brand new set of mini-games that are perfect for Twitch participation.
Some of the most entertaining streams I’ve ever watched have been Jackbox streams. There’s just nothing like the chaos that ensues from this game.
You’ll definitely want to round up a group of friends to play; audience members can vote and spectate from a third-party browser.
All you need to do is purchase (some earlier versions are free) the pack you want, download it, and once you start the game a code will display on screen for your viewers to join.
Bonus Tip: Jackbox Audience Kit is a Twitch extension that let’s audience members vote without a third-party browser/code. Install this extension for easier gameplay.
Download: Website
Price: Varies
2. Geoguesser
“EXPLORE THE WORLD! Find clues and guess where you are in the world. Join 30 million other players worldwide.” – Geoguesser.com
Geoguesser is a fun option for the geographically inclined. Actually, the directionally challenged will make for a fun experience too. I speak from experience.
Once you start a game (it’s free), you’ll be dropped in a random location somewhere on the planet. From there, you’ll have to use surrounding clues and your geographical knowledge to make educated guesses as to your whereabouts.
You might be asking…how does the chat participate?
Apart from clowning you in chat, there’s a Twitch extension that allows them to make actual guesses of their own. ChatGuessr records your viewers’ guesses and displays them on-screen at the end of every round.
Geoguesser is a fun (and educational) choice for streamers…so long as you trust your viewers.
Download: None
Price: Free
3. Gartic on Stream
“Many options for having fun! Using drawings as the main element, we create different games for different purposes. Get in touch with the ideal game for you.” – gos.gg
Gartic Games is another choice that makes for hilarious streams. There are so many ways to play: Gartic.io (a drawing game), Gartic Phone, Gartic Show, Gartic Bot—you won’t run out of options.
Now, Gartic Show is the only version with Twitch integration built-in. Once you start a round you’ll be faced with multiple real-time drawings for your viewers to guess. When they guess correctly, a new drawing will be displayed and chat will eventually move to the next round.
I do recommend checking out the other Gartic Games. Though they don’t have built-in integration, chat can still guess and play along for a surely hysterical stream.
Download: None
Price: Free
4. Minecraft
“With new games, new updates, and new ways to play, join one of the biggest communities in gaming and start crafting today!” – Minecraft.net
It’s true—Minecraft doesn’t have organic Twitch integration. However, there is a Twitch extension I recently discovered to save the day. Check it out:
Chat Torture! is an extension that allows viewers to summon mobs, change the time of day, mess with a player’s inventory, and more!
There’s no better way to build audience loyalty than letting them take out their frustrations on you.
Once you’ve downloaded Minecraft, just follow the instructions on Chat Torture!’s website to install the extension. Good luck (you’ll need it)!
Download: Website
Price: $29.99
5. Among Us Mobile
“Play Among Us online and be the only survivor on the ship! As the imposter, deceive and kill the spaceship crew and sabotage their mission!” – Amongusplay.online
Some would say Among Us is old news. After reaching a spike in viewership in September of 2020 (peaking at 200,00 average viewers according to Twitch Tracker), it’s undoubtedly been on the decline ever since.
However…I would argue there’s still fun to be had with Among Us. With 12.8 followers on Twitch, it’s certainly nothing to scoff at. And it allows viewers to play directly with the streamer.
All you’ll need to do is click the “Start Streaming on Twitch” button in the menu. Alternatively, you can share a room code via Discord once you start a game.
Download: Google Play
Price: Free
The Strategy Behind Twitch Integration Games
We’ve gone through a solid list of Twitch integration games. By now you should be able to sort through them, choose a game you’d like to try, and start streaming.
But why? Is there a point to Twitch integration games, or are they just another passing fad?
Well, according to an article published by Streamers Playbook, one of the main reasons consumers love Twitch is…say it with me…community.
In fact, viewers will often seek out smaller streamers just for a chance at interacting with them. So if you’re a new/smaller streamer, audience participation is even more vital for your channel.
It may even be the reason someone chooses you over a well-known channel.
However, that doesn’t mean playing a Twitch integration game for the sake of playing a Twitch integration game is the best option. Or having it become the only game in your repertoire.
Ultimately you’ll want to play games you’re passionate about. I would recommend sprinkling in a game with Twitch integration every now and again—just as a treat for your viewers.
Your audience is important, but so is your own enjoyment. That’s the whole reason you’re doing this!
Conclusion
The only thing that’s left for you to do now is trying out a few of these games yourself.
In reality, the streaming journey is one big experiment: keep at it until you find something that works for you.
And remember that there are long-term rewards for including your audience.
Games with Twitch integration are valuable tools for any streamer.
Viewers who feel included are more likely to become long-term watchers. Long-term watchers turn into followers, followers turn into subscribers, and so on.
And if you’re looking for even more experiments to try, check out our article on The Best Games to Stream on Twitch. There are even more options for your consideration!
Happy streaming!
Savannah Sellers is a content creator who started a successful Twitch stream and TikTok channel from scratch as a personal project under the name flarity_.