Smartly moving to capitalize on its current success with its overnight sleeper hit Among Us, developer InnerSloth has canceled plans to make Among Us 2 shortly after announcing the sequel. While this may disappoint some due to the 2018 game's low budget presentation and mechanics, it simply makes more sense for the small indie studio to focus on improving what players already have in their hands.
Becoming a sudden gaming and meme culture sensation - not unlike MediaTonic's Fall Guys - Among Us has captured the internet's attention with its simple but hilarious party game potential. Working similar to Jackbox Party Pack's Push the Button, Among Us drops up to 10 players into a space station that they must upkeep, without knowing which of them is an Impostor. Different from Fall Guys, however, is that InnerSloth's party game hit has been out for over two years before exploding in sales and active playerbase following popularization by popular YouTubers and streamers. The small team has understandably been hard at work to accommodate for the sudden influx of users, while also undoubtedly attempting to understand where the sudden interest came from and how to stop the title from quickly fading into obscurity.
Having only recently shared plans to start work on Among Us 2, InnerSloth announces on its itch.io blog has wisely walked back that plan in order to better focus on continued development on the existing Among Us. InnerSloth co-founder PuffballsUnited explains the decision, stating the team plans to "get started on new content soon" but that the studio has "decided to cancel Among Us 2 and instead put all our focus into improving Among Us 1." While this would seem to communicate to eager players that InnerSloth is cutting back Among Us content they would have otherwise gotten access to, the co-founder reassures them that all planned Among Us 2 content "will instead go to Among Us 1."
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Among Us is available now on PC.
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