See which games YouTube is starting to cover
GameContour follows 12,117 gaming channels, matches every video to its Steam game, and shows you each week which games are gaining or losing attention.
Rising games
Share of fresh YouTube views, this week ← last week.
Sep 29 – Oct 5 vs Sep 22 – 28
| Rank | Game | Momentum | Fresh views | Channels | Daily views, 27d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |  Gears of War: E-Day | Up 99×+ | 10.3M ← 261.7K | 370 ← 10 | |
| #2 |  STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™ | New | 2.6M ← 259 | 53 ← 1 | |
| #3 |  Nivalis Nights | New | 1.4M ← 0 | 65 ← 1 | |
| #4 |  POOL LOOPSpike | Up 21.7× | 3M ← 129.7K | 17 ← 8 | |
| #5 |  Castlevania: Belmont's Curse | Up 18.1× | 966.9K ← 12.8K | 92 ← 1 | |
| #6 |  Escape from Playtime | Up 13.5× | 829.2K ← 149.8K | 25 ← 3 |
Top 6 of 126 rising games. Real data from GameContour, captured Oct 6, 2026.
Coverage
- Tracked channels
- 12,117
- YouTube gaming channels
- Matched videos
- 88,238
- Matched to Steam games
- Games with coverage
- 6,333
- Released and unreleased
- Views gained
- 534.9M
- Sep 29 – Oct 5
As of Oct 6, 2026.
What GameContour shows
Three views of the same data: who is getting attention, who is gaining it, and what is behind it.
Most popular games
Every Steam game with YouTube coverage, ranked by the views its videos gained in the last 7 or 28 days.
- Filter by genre, Steam tag, release stage, price, and channel language.
- See rank change, share of attention, and engagement for each game.
Top games by views gained
Sep 29 – Oct 5
- Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced25.5M from 156 channels
- SILENT HILL: Townfall23.6M from 316 channels
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered19.2M from 368 channels
- EA SPORTS FC™ 2711.3M from 97 channels
- Gears of War: E-Day10.5M from 370 channels
- Mimic Party10M from 25 channels
Rising and cooling games
Each week, every game's attention is compared with the week before. Sort by how fast a game is growing or by how much share it gained.
- Trends that come from a single viral video are flagged, so one hit can't fake a trend.
How games are labelled
- Rising
- Gaining attention faster than the market.
- Steady
- Holding its share.
- Cooling
- Losing attention to other games.
- New
- Almost no coverage last week.
- Spike
- Most of its views came from a single video.
A page for every game
Open any game to see where its attention comes from and how it changed against the previous window.
- A daily attention timeline, with the release date and tag changes marked.
- The channels and videos behind the views, by channel size, language, and country.
Gears of War: E-DayThe Coalition, Xbox Game Studios. Sep 29 – Oct 5 vs the week before.- Views gained
- 10.5M
- Up 3,566% from 286.7K
- Fresh views
- 10.3M
- Up 3,853% from 261.7K
- New videos
- 982
- Up 8,083% from 12
- Channels
- 370
- Up 3,600% from 10
- Share of attention
- 1.96%
- Up 3,352% from 0.06%
- Engagement
- 1.8%
- Up 15% from 1.6%
Who it's for
Teams at game publishers who need to know where YouTube attention is going.
Publishing and business development
Find games worth signing before everyone else notices them.
Questions GameContour answers
- Which unreleased games are building an audience on YouTube?
- Which games in our genres are rising this week, and which are cooling?
- Is this game's attention broad, or driven by one creator?
Marketing and PR
Time launches and announcements with numbers, not hunches.
Questions GameContour answers
- How much YouTube attention do the games we compete with get?
- In which languages and countries is a competitor getting coverage?
- How did attention move around a rival's release or announcement?
How it works
From a YouTube upload to a weekly trend, in three steps.
1Collect
New videos and their daily view counts are collected from 12,117 YouTube gaming channels.
2Match
Each video is matched to the Steam game it covers.
3Measure
Views gained are added up per game and day, and each game's share is compared with the week before.
About the numbers
- The numbers measure attention in the channels we track, not all of YouTube.
- Weeks are UTC days. Data is updated hourly and a day counts once it is complete.