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Innersloth Should Have Focused on “Among Us 2” After All
Among Us in on its way downhill and fast — unless Innersloth can make some smart changes, and fast
The game Among Us reached unprecedented levels of success in the year 2020.
If nothing is done, it will hit a rock bottom low in 2021 and only pull mediocre players and viewership for the rest of its life.
Among Us, the online multiplayer social deduction game that took young people by storm in 2020, is not looking so hot now in early 2021. The previously recorded 700,000+ viewers it once pulled on Twitch.tv is now down to a dozen thousand. Twitch viewership has become a barometer for success recently, and it is easy to tell that viewers and streamers have moved on to play Rust, now pulling in the hundreds-of-thousands of viewers that Among Us has lost. Many streamers are running hours-long Rust sessions on Twitch, and their fans are glued to their screens watching.
SteamCharts, a Steam analytics website, tells a similar story around Among Us players. The average number of players has dropped 200% since October. The game peaked back in September of 2020, players logged back on during Thanksgiving and Christmas season, but the decline has remained steady. The data is clear — gamers are not playing or watching…
