Among Us, a murder mystery set in space, is the latest multimillion dollar craze in video games

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As people stay at home across the world, their latest favorite pastime is a 2018 murder mystery game set in space called Among Us.

The game's exponential popularity drove its developers to announce on Thursday they were canceling a sequel to the game, to better focus on growing the existing version. The game reached over a million players on September 3 and had grown to over 3.5 million concurrent users worldwide by Friday.

InnerSloth, a three-person company, released Among Us in 2018. Willard is the programmer and handles the business of the company. It didn't cause much of a stir at the time, although it grew popular in countries like Korea and Brazil. It wasn't until this summer that the game took off in the US, when a Twitch streamer with a fanbase of 2.8 million viewers began to play it.

Among Us involves a lot of lying, accusations and angry denials -- a perfect recipe for social media engagement. YouTube's biggest individual creator, PewDiePie, has played it, as has rapper and singer Soulja Boy.

 

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