Among Us Beats PUBG To Become Most Downloaded Game Of 2020
The game was developed by Innersloth game studios in the year 2018 and it wasn¡¯t so popular back then. But suddenly it garnered a ton of critical acclaim from gamers, pushing it on top, across all the charts.
This year has been oddly weird for gamers, especially mobile gamers. First, gamers in India saw the government go ahead and ban PUBG Mobile along with a bunch of popular Chinese apps.
While gamers were barely able to deal with this rather hefty blow, Epic and Apple¡¯s clash resulted in Fortnite to be pulled down from the app store, disappointing another major chunk of mobile gamers.
Now, gamers have a handful of interesting multiplayer games to test their skills on, one of them being Call of Duty: Mobile which has a rather addictive battle royale mode, along with the PVP modes. However, despite the love and craze this game has achieved, it is not the most downloaded game this quarter.
That position has been taken by a game that is nowhere in the same area as PUBG, COD Mobile or Fortnite. The game is called Among Us and it has been able to garner over 85 million downloads in the August-September period (Q3 of 2020) on smartphones according to data by Sensor Tower. In fact, it has been top on charts on both iOS and Android. Looks like people who couldn¡¯t play Fortnite or PUBG have found their solace in Among Us.
The game was developed by Innersloth game studios in the year 2018 and it wasn¡¯t so popular back then. But suddenly it garnered a ton of critical acclaim from gamers, pushing it on top, across all the charts.
To the uninitiated, Among Us is a game that involves four to ten players where one of the players is regarded as an imposter. The role of the impostor is to kill everyone on the ship without getting detected. Players who die aren¡¯t allowed to talk and when other players find the dead body of their fellow players, they hold meetings to find the culprit who did the act. The decision making is of the essence as one wrong decision could result in an innocent guy to lose his life.
The Among Us game has been adopted by several game streamers. Moreover, this game has also been the new hot topic for meme-makers online. It¡¯ll be interesting to see if gamers remain hooked on Among Us for long.