>>95440071I have okay numbers with RTS but it is pretty volatile, a big streamer being live at the same time as you can ruin your whole night. I used to stream a lot of Total War: Warhammer and some nights I'd be top of the category and some nights I'd wonder why I bothered at all. Civilization 6 has been pretty good by comparison(which isn't and RTS but it is a strategy game) and because it's very chill you can have a lot of audience interaction. You can't do that in an RTS if things are heated because you're playing a really hard mission/battle/PvP match, losing track of chat is par for the course at that point.
XCOM has treated me well for a similar reason, it's slow so you never lose chat. The variance can lead to entertaining moments and it's very interactable. You can name soldiers after chat and dress them up and they seem to get invested in how their guy is doing.
No strategy game will ever be good for discovery, you won't really pull people in playing them but if it's something you enjoy you'll want a niche in it that allows you to keep the attention of your viewers. If you don't have an active enough chat to bounce off of you'll want to talk through your thought processes, explain what you're doing and why.
