

A detractor from the game is that possible behaviors of players on any map remain limited and therefore predictable due to the simplicity of the game. Simply having updates, though, is not a guarantee of continued popularity. Two of the current three maps came in updates a year after the game’s initial 2018 release and a fourth map, titled “The Airship,” has been teased to be released soon, so it would appear that the development team’s tactic to maintain popularity is through content updates. A good part of people’s enjoyment of “Among Us” has come from having several different maps to play on. It’s how “Minecraft” has remained popular since 2011 with its continued content updates. Updates seem to be a good way for a video game to remain relevant.

Looking at how the statistical interest has declined so dramatically within just months, “Among Us” is almost certainly set to become irrelevant.

According to Steam Charts, “Among Us” held an average of 151,000 players in September 2020 and decreased 73% to about 42,000 players by the new year. “Among Us” player counts have also seen significant drops. As “Among Us” became less “new” and exciting, and streamers and viewers alike dropped the game, so did the game’s popularity on Twitch. In January of this year, it held a significantly smaller average concurrent viewership of only 42,100–about 20% of the previous September’s–corresponding with the decrease of average concurrent streams to 888. It’s fun to try and figure out how each round will play out, even by just watching, and the game has a layer of comedic entertainment value in it even without the addition of a streamer’s humorous commentary.īut “Among Us’s” statistics on Twitch have been going down since then. “Among Us” then got thrown into the spotlight by Twitch streamers discovering the game, with the Twitch category averaging an impressive viewership of 204,000 as well as 3,500 concurrent streams by September 2020.

According to SteamCharts, even six months after its initial release, the game only had an average of 8.2 players.īy June 2020 the game managed to break 500 average players. The game barely garnered any attention initially.
WHEN DID AMONG US COME OUT PC
After leaving beta, where the game was publicly playable but still undergoing major bug testing and development, the PC version was sold for $5.
WHEN DID AMONG US COME OUT FOR FREE
The game was first released for free on mobile in June 2018 and PC in August of the same year. The basic idea is that Crewmate players need to either finish all their tasks or vote off all the Impostors in meetings to win, while Impostors win by blending in with the Crewmates and killing enough of them without getting discovered and voted off. “Among Us” is a multiplayer game of social deduction in which players are assigned the role of either Impostor or Crewmate at the beginning of each round. “Among Us” was made by InnerSloth, an extremely small company that only recently gained a fifth member. Unfortunately, due to the game’s basic design not lending itself well to prolonged interest and the small developing team being unable to create quick updates, the buzz has died down considerably since then. The video game “Among Us” had a sudden and massive surge of popularity mid-2020 during quarantine, surpassing 217 million downloads by November. But the popularity seems to have diminished. Lily Babicky, Staff Writer | MaInitially a game with just an average of 8.2 players, Among Us became a quarantine hit that gained over 150,000 players.
