When originally released in 2018 by InnerSloth, the game ‘Among Us’ was not known by many people. However, this year the online game is now trending. ‘Among Us’ is a multiplayer internet game that uses internet or local wifi to connect you with users to “attempt to hold your spaceship together and return back to civilization” the InnerSloth’s website describes.
PornHub Insights started noticing that within the last 30 days there have been 4.7 million searches for ‘Among Us.’ The game garnered mainstream recognition when well known Twitch Streamers and YouTubers began playing it.
Kotaku reached out to PornHub so see if searches were being increased on their website as well. After reviewing their insights, they noticed that searches containing ‘Among Us’ became regular around the start of September and reached n September 16th, with nearly 700,000 searches in a single day.
With average daily searches of 115,000, ‘Among Us’ currently rivals Pornhub’s most searched games such as Fortnite.
It seems the public’s interests in online gaming has been reinvigorated since the start of COVID-19 and scouring the internet for articles for ideas to pass time seemed to be a top priority.
The 360 MAGAZINE wrote an article recently, describing ways to not let boredom overcome you this fall. It references how playing online games is a way to pass the time, but the fall can bring on other new opportunities such as baking cookies or honing a new skill.
While some are taking time to perfect skills, its no secret that online traffic and gaming has been increased. Some are going back to childhood games such as Club Penguin and ToonTown while others are exploring new games such as the ones InnerSloth are releasing.
InnerSloth currently hosts three online gaming platforms all with different themes to peak the consumers interest.
