For a country of just over five million people, Finland has an outsized footprint on Twitch. Open any stats page filtered to Finnish language and you keep seeing the same names: pelaajatcom at the top as an esports machine, Laeppa and Henksuliini running variety “talk shows with games”, and a tight mid-pack of streamers grinding shooters, open-world sandboxes and sports games.
The categories they play in are globally familiar – Counter-Strike 2, GTA V, Fortnite, League of Legends, EA Sports FC, Just Chatting – but the way Finns watch and react to these streams is very local. Let’s break down who’s actually dominating Finnish Twitch right now and which games sit at the centre of the meta.
The current kings of Twitch Suomi
If you check SullyGnome’s “most watched Finnish channels – past 30 days” table, one name is almost always on top: pelaajatcom, with over 560,000 hours watched in a typical recent 30-day window. Right behind come Laeppa, TurunPug and Fuzer, each pulling in tens of thousands of hours watched on their own.
TwitchTracker’s Finnish-language rankings tell a similar story from a different angle. In late 2025, pelaajatcom averages over 3,300 concurrent viewers, while Laeppa sits around 900+, with other Finnish channels like jetistriimaa, tuukkari, Henksuliini and OfficialAndyPyro clustering in the 600–700 range.
So structurally, Twitch Suomi looks like this:
One huge esports and event broadcaster (pelaajatcom).
A handful of heavy-hitting variety and personality streamers (Laeppa, Henksuliini, OfficialAndyPyro).
A dense ecosystem of mid-tier channels focusing on shooters, sandboxes and sports games.
The interesting part is what they play to keep those numbers.
Pelaajatcom: Counter-Strike as Finland’s prime-time TV
If you want to understand why Counter-Strike 2 is welded to the top of Finnish Twitch, you start with pelaajatcom.
The channel is effectively a Finnish esports TV station that happens to live on Twitch. According to SullyGnome, it regularly logs well over 400,000 hours watched per month, with CS2 as the main category.
Broadcasts include international tournaments with Finnish commentary, Nordic competitions and studio desk shows. Between maps, the content often looks like a polished Just Chatting stream: casters break down rounds, chat gets spammy, and memes fly in real time. It’s still Counter-Strike, but wrapped in a very Finnish package – with home-grown pros and regional narratives that matter a lot more in Helsinki than they do in Los Angeles.
In raw numbers and cultural impact, CS2 on pelaajatcom is the single biggest driver of Twitch viewership in Finnish right now.
The gambling crossover: slots streams, CasinoHEX Suomeksi and Paf
In the middle of all that, there’s a quieter but very real gambling layer on Finnish Twitch. If you filter streams by language, you’ll find Finnish-language channels in the Slots category pulling respectable averages – not necessarily at CS2 levels, but enough to be noticed in the top-50.
For viewers, slot streams work like high-voltage reaction content. Big wins, bonus rounds and rapid variance make for great clips and TikTok edits. For streamers, they’re a way to diversify content or land sponsorships in a competitive creator economy.
That’s exactly where more “nerdy” Finnish gambling resources come in. CasinoHEX Suomeksi is one of the established Finnish-language portals that reviews and compares online casinos. Its front page promises a constantly updated list of trusted casinos and highlights details like licence, tax status and RTP ranges:
“Päivittyvä lista nettikasinoita suomalaisille, vain parhaat luotettavat kasinot.”
In English: “An updated list of online casinos for Finns, only the best, most reliable casinos.” The tone is surprisingly similar to hardcore gaming sites – analytical, slightly dry, very focused on numbers and safety rather than hype.
On the operator side, one of the most interesting names for a Finnish audience is Paf (Ålands Penningautomatförening). Paf is a gambling company owned by the Government of Åland, an autonomous region of Finland. It runs online casino, poker and betting services, plus slot machines on ferries, and then distributes its profits to public-interest projects on Åland and beyond.
Laeppa, Henksuliini & OfficialAndyPyro: variety as a lifestyle
Next to the esports giant you find the variety streamers – the people whose channels are basically digital living rooms.
Laeppa is the clearest example. Data from StreamsCharts and SullyGnome shows him streaming around 100+ hours in a month with roughly 900 average viewers and peaks comfortably over 1,500.
His schedule is a rotating playlist of whatever feels fun: new single-player releases, horror games, GTA V sessions, party games and long stretches of pure chat.
Henksuliini has had months where he actually outranked everyone in total hours watched; in January 2025, SullyGnome lists him as #1 in Finnish with around 465,000 hours watched, ahead of even pelaajatcom. Again, the content mix is heavy on Just Chatting, big mainstream games and high-energy reactions.
Then there’s OfficialAndyPyro, one of the best-known Finnish variety streamers internationally. His Twitch page describes him as a Finnish variety streamer who loves all genres but currently enjoys IRL streaming the most, and tracker sites put him at around 286,000 followers, ranking in the top 0.1% globally and around #10 among Finnish channels.
Collectively, these channels make sure that variety and Just Chatting never leave the Finnish top five, no matter how strong the shooter meta gets. Viewers show up less for a specific title and more for the streamer’s voice, jokes and vibe.
Why Finnish Twitch feels unique even when the games don’t
From the outside, the Finnish meta can look almost generic. Counter-Strike, GTA V, Fortnite, Just Chatting – these are the same categories that top global Twitch.
What makes it feel different is the culture layer on top.
Most big Finnish channels stream almost exclusively in Finnish. Jokes are about conscription, sauna, ice hockey and local politics. Esports broadcasts treat Finnish pros like national athletes. When a CS2 team with a Finnish in-game leader goes deep in a tournament, Twitch chat reads more like a football bar than a neutral esports feed.
There’s also a certain technical bar. Pelaajatcom’s studio broadcasts look like real TV. Laeppa’s and OfficialAndyPyro’s setups would be right at home among big English-language streamers. Even mid-tier channels often run dual-PC setups, high-quality mics and polished overlays. The result is a scene that’s small in language reach but big in production standards.
