
For starters, the team plans to rebuild the game from the ground up so don't expect any changes to roll out soon. InnerSloth didn't include a release date window in its announcement of the upcoming Among Us updates, but it did offer some insights into how long it could take for the game's next chapter to begin. 'Among Us 2' has been cancelled in favor of updating the original game.
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When is the Among Us update release date? Here's everything we know about the changes coming to Among Us. InnerSloth has slated some major changes for Among Us in the coming year, but the developer has prioritized polishing the game's core experience.
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Crew members try to escape unharmed by completing a series of mundane tasks assigned to them, and they can only win by successfully voting to eject the imposters out of the airlock or by completing their chores. One or three of the crew's members, however, are alien "imposters" whose objective it is is to kill everyone.

All of the content we had planned for Among Us 2 will instead go into Among Us 1."Ĭurrently, Among Us assigns four to ten players the role of a crewmember aboard a spaceship. "We have decided to cancel Among Us 2 and instead put all our focus into improving Among Us 1. "Seeing how many people are enjoying Among Us 1 really makes us want to be able to support the game and take it to the next level," wrote the InnerSloth team. So the team doesn't want to force its newfound player base to transition to a new title just yet. Among Us was first released in 2018 and developer Amy Liu revealed that the game was lucky to have more than 10 concurrent players during its early months. The developer tweeted that the title had hit 1.5 million simultaneous players on September 4 and it has consistently remained the most-watched game on Twitch from the tail end of August through most of September. InnerSloth abandoned the sequel because of how many people have been playing the social deduction game over during the end of summer 2020.

As part of this shift in plans, development on Among Us 2 would cease altogether. The title’s three-person development team - InnerSloth - published a blog post on Septemthat revealed a series of sweeping updates would be coming to Among Us. But what does that mean for the future of this budding franchise? The murder-mystery game Among Us has become so popular that its developer has officially canceled the previously planned sequel to instead improve the current version.
