The hit indie social deduction multiplayer gameAmong Ushas announced its plans for 2022. Innersloth has continued to updateAmong Ussince its big boom in 2020, and the developers hope to keep their player base high with more new content.
Developer Innersloth has prepared a timetable for its new features this year: Friend list updates and quality of life changes will be coming out soon, while more roles, cosmicubes, a hide and seek mode, and a new collaboration will be coming in the future. Innersloth also teased more features that it will announce at a later date. A new map has not yet been announced, meaning that the most recent map is still The Airship, which is based offInnersloth’s other titleHenry Stickmin.
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Among Usreached its peak popularity in the second half of 2020 when famous Twitch streamers likePokimane started playingAmong Usfor their viewers to watch. The way the game is played makes it unique in gaming by relying on its own players' personalities and the players' trust in each other. It’s free to play on mobile, which allowed it to reach a huge audience.
Innersloth has been hard at work developing new content forAmong Usafter scrapping plans for the sequelin late 2020. Some ofAmong Us 2’s content was put into the currentAmong Us, and Innersloth has made reinforcing its current infrastructure like servers in the base game its top priority. Innersloth has also expanded its team to meet ongoing player demands.
Innersloth is a small team that has managed to achieve a lot given its size.Among Uswon the Best Mobile Game award at The Game Awards 2020, and even has garnered recognition outside of gaming. Famously, U.S Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar teamed up with multiple content creators like Disguised Toast and HasanAbi to play some games ofAmong Uson Twitch, which garnered hundreds of thousands of viewers.
WhileAmong Usisn’t nearly as popular as it used to be, it’s still a game that can be seen a fair amount on various streaming sites, and new content will always be welcome for a game that managed to achieve so much in the last couple of years.
Among Usis available now for mobile, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
