[News] Among Us Is Really, Really Po-po-la-re Right Now

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Among Us Is Really, Really Po[CENSORED]r Right Now
Downloads on Steam and mobile are soaring for the 2-year-old indie game.

Indie game Among Us has exploded in po[CENSORED]rity recently. According to SensorTower, Among Us earned 18.4 million mobile downloads in August, almost eight times as many downloads from its July count of 2.4 million downloads. The game earned another 41.9 million mobile downloads in September, proving its meteoric growth in the last two months. On Steam, Among Us is also one of the most po[CENSORED]r games on the platform, and 268,000 players are currently active. This is despite the game not even being remotely new. In fact, it's two years old.

Among Us was released in 2018 by InnerSloth and is a multiplayer party game. Four to ten players take on the role of spaceship crew members preparing for a departure. However, a few players in the party are randomly assigned the role of alien imposters. The imposters' goals are to kill and frame crewmembers, sabotage the ship, and do it all without getting caught. Among Us shares a similar setup to other po[CENSORED]r real-life party games like Werewolf and Mafia. A similar concept was used in the Garry's Mod mode Trouble in Terrorist Town. In this mode, team members had to work together to deduct who was a traitor while a smaller group picked them off one by one.
Twitch streamers have generally been attributed for spreading the good word about Among Us. The multiplayer party game is highly po[CENSORED]r on the platform and as a category, has 247,000 viewers, which places it ahead of other po[CENSORED]r titles like Fortnite and Minecraft. Po[CENSORED]r Twitch personalities like Sodapoppin, Pewdiepie, Shroud, Ninja, and many more have played the multiplayer party game.