1.Among As players
most of all prefer black and white for their characters; the least we choose its colors are lime and brown, and according to statistics from one of the reddit users, and based on 250 grams of becoming a traitor, the red player has the greatest chance of being quite ahead of all other colors that next time, think a few times before teaming with red.
2.Among Us in the localization
translates as "among us", but not many people know that this is not the original name of the game, initially the game reflected the essence of its name space mafia or space mafia as much as possible. This fact is confirmed by the game files and a link in the play market where they are still called old title.
3. Game was Released in 2018 with a Small Number of Downloads
Among Us was released in 2018 by Innersloth. The concept is similar to Werewolf, which is a game of deception.
The game can host up to 10 players.
Set in space, 4 to 10 players take on the role of spaceship crew members preparing for a departure. There are some players who will be randomly assigned to play the role of alien imposters. These imposters’ goals are to kill and frame crewmembers, sabotage the ship, without getting caught.
The person with the most votes as the imposter, will then be exiled, whether they are innocent or not.
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The game’s popularity wasn’t that high when it was launched two years ago.
4. Game was Developed by a Team of Three
Among Us was developed by Forest Willard, Amy Liu and Marcus Bromande. The developer, Innersloth, is a company based in Washington.
Aside from Among Us, the company also developed games such as Dig2China in 2015 and the Henry Stickmin collection in 2020.
Marcus Bromande is also known as Puffballs United. He is also the creator of the Henry Stickmin series.
5. Gained Popularity in 2020 due to Twitch Streamers and YouTubers Playing the Game
So what made Among Us shot to fame two years later?
The craze caught on in 2020 when popular Twitch streamers such as Sodapoppin and Pewdiepie were playing the game on Twitch a few months back.
Twitch is a live streaming platform for gamers, where Pewdiepie and Sodapoppin have 1.2 million and 2.8 million followers on that platform respectively.
Many famous internet personalities jumped on the bandwagon and played the game, which quickly catapulted Among Us to fame.
6. More Than 85 Million Downloads
With an increasing number of people hearing about the game, the number of downloads increased by an exponential rate in 2020.
According to Sensor Tower, there were more than 85 million downloads for the game, where the surge came in August and September.
Downloads rose by 661% to 18.4 million in August 2020 as compared to July, while the numbers further increased to 41.9 million downloads in the month of September.