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Among Us
Game · 2018 · Viral
Innersloth's 2018 game Among Us drew about half a billion players in November 2020.
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How it worksNumbers
- Monthly players, November 2020 (Nielsen SuperData via The Verge)
- 500M
- As of Nov 30, 2020 · The Verge
- Seed to peak
- 2.3 years
- Jun 15 ’18 to Sep 26 ’20
- Platforms
- 5
- Started on App stores
- Origin
- Seeded
- Gaming
How it spread
Trace the originInnersloth released Among Us in June 2018; it had fewer than 1,000 mobile downloads that August. YouTubers and Twitch streamers picked it up in waves through 2020. It led mobile downloads worldwide in September 2020 and drew about half a billion players that November.
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June 2018
August 2018
Innersloth platform jump · Aug 17 ’18
Innersloth announced online play and a PC release, extending a game that had launched as local mobile multiplayer.[15]
September 2018
itch.io platform jump · Sep 27 ’18
Innersloth dated an itch.io shoutout to September 27 alongside a rise in its server-connection graph.[16]
Changelogupdated Oct 16 ’26
- Added 5 events · Revised 4 events · Added 6 sources · Added 3 numbers · Revised 3 numbers
- Score 55 → 68 · Fact-check passed (30 claims)
- Added: 14 events, 14 sources · Score 55
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