Among Us Is Most Popular Game Ever With 500 Million Monthly Active Players

Among Us, the popular online multiplayer game has been reported to have around half a billion monthly active users in November.

With this, the Among Us game is now the most popular game ever on the basis of monthly active players.

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The new report has been released by market researcher SuperData. It highlights that even though the game had been available since 2018, the surge in its popularity is newfound. Part of this is accredited to the lockdowns in various countries citing the Covid-19 pandemic.

Another major reason that made the game popular is its gameplay broadcasts by streamers on Twitch as well as YouTube. Several celebrities and public figures, including American politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and rapper Soulja Boy, have been known to stream their Among Us gameplay on their respective Twitch accounts.

For those unaware of the game, Among Us is a multiplayer social deduction game, developed by American game studio Innersloth. It is much like the common social game ¡®Villagers-Dacoit¡¯ or the classic ¡®Raja-Mantri-Chor-Sipahi¡¯. Being in one of two teams - ¡®Crewmates¡¯ or ¡®Impostors¡¯, the former players have to team up to find the Impostors while the latter try to eliminate the Crewmates one by one while keeping their identity hidden.

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Even though Among Us had the highest active monthly player numbers, it did not rank among the highest grossing mobile games of 2020. This is because the game is not heavily monetised and mostly remains free for the mobile version.

The PC version that costs $5 upfront accounted for the ¡°majority of revenue from August to November - 64%¡± despite having an extremely small share of the total player base - just 3% in November.

As per the report, Free Fire - a battle royale action game like PUBG Mobile topped the list of highest grossing games in 2020. Pokemon Go ranked second.