I've read the complete Anthony C Yu four volume Journey to the West translation and I don't think there are many, if any, good comparisons in Western literature. There's an overarching story for the Monkey King, Tang Sanzang, and the rest of the gang, contained within the work, but the bulk of the chapters are self-contained episodic stories, with mostly those same characters, and can be read without almost any knowledge of the others.
The closest Western example I can think of with a novel-like work similarly containing many disconnected episodic stories is Don Quixote.
I don't think that really means much, all of the (major) streamers are just being paid to play the game on stream for X amount of time/days when the game launches. It's not organic. Twitch is just another marketing spend for these companies. Most of the big streamers maintain the same average viewer count no matter what they're playing.
