Among Us 2 Cancelled, New Content Headed to Among Us 1

The developers of Among Us have cancelled a planned sequel to the game to focus on updating the original, with all content designed for the sequel to be added to the original. Innersloth co-founder PuffballsUnited broke the news on the game's Itch.Io Devlog, revealing that – despite only announcing the sequel last month – the team has decided to cancel Among Us 2 and fold planned features for the sequel into Among Us. Innersloth held "several long discussions" about the future of the game in the wake of its viral success. Initially, Innersloth had been focusing on the sequel due to the outdated nature of the Among Us codebase, which is "not built to support adding so much content." However, given how many people have flocked to the game recently, the studio decided that they wanted to focus on supporting the original instead. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=among-us-screenshots&captions=true"] "All of the content we had planned for Among Us 2 will instead go into Among Us 1," PuffballsUnited explains. "This is probably the more difficult choice because it means going deep into the core code of the game and reworking several parts of it. We have lots of things planned and we’re excited to bring new content to everyone as you continue to enjoy playing!" The blog also gave us a glimpse at what features will be headed to Among Us in the near future. The team is "working very hard" to figure out server issues at the moment, but will be bringing new features such as colourblind support, a new, Henry Stickmin-themed stage and a friends/account system, something Innersloth has been wanting to implement for a while now. Among Us is an online social game in which a crew of players prep a spaceship for takeoff, but are faced with impostors trying to murder them. It's become a viral success two years after its initial release, thanks in large part to streaming influencers beginning to play the game in front of huge audiences. In the last month, it peaked with the third-highest concurrent players on Steam, with 388,000 people playing simultaneously. If you want to figure out how to play Among Us, check out our handy guide to help you understand the game's mechanics. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.