Among Us — the popular viral video game about space crewmates and imposters — is still getting a heavy amount of users, setting all-time records for mobile games.
What’s going on?
New numbers from Nielsen’s SuperData found Among Us had about 500 million users in November alone, which means the game had the most monthly players for a mobile video game ever, according to The Verge.
- The numbers were higher than those for Pokemon Go and Candy Crush Saga.
- The Verge reports that the new most-popular game had about 300 million users.
- The game has a mobile presence, too, with only 3% of users playing on PC as opposed to mobile.
Some context:
Among Us has become one of the more popular video games of the year, and it didn’t really pick up steam until the end of 2020, as I wrote about for the Deseret News.
- The game calls for gamers to work as a team to figure out who on their…
