If you've looked at the top games on Twitch or the Steam concurrent player charts lately, you might've seen an unfamiliar name: Among Us. Originally released back in 2018 by indie studio Innersloth, Among Us is a multiplayer title similar to party games like Mafia. It's had a modest following of players over the years, but has exploded in popularity since June - and now the player count for Among Us reaching astronomical heights.
Over the weekend, the Among Us reached 1.5 million concurrent players across its Steam, iOS, and Android releases, as the devs announced on Twitter - there's full cross-play between platforms, so those players are all part of the same pool. On Steam alone, Among Us peaked at 166,685 players on Sunday, September 6 - a number to rival that of anything but Steam's three biggest games.
During its first year of release, a typical Steam player peak for Among Us was around 10, as SteamDB shows. That ballooned into a few hundred in 2019, but it wasn't until June 2020 - alongside a number of high-profile Twitch streams - that the game started reaching into the thousands, then the tens of thousands, and now the hundreds of thousands.
