January 2021 worldwide digital games market — SuperData, a Nielsen Company
Worldwide digital games earnings rose by 15% year-over-year to reach $11.6B in January 2021. Revenue was up annually across all device types.
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'Among Us' had roughly half billion monthly active users in November 2020 (most popular game ever in terms of monthly players)
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Half a billion? What the fuck? I had to double take. That's incredible. Curious to see how that team plans to sustain or even grow these numbers.
I don't envy them at all.
I don't envy them at all.
I really thought this was gonna be a flavor of the month game like fall guys. Impressive staying power.
This will be the game of 2020 when looking back in a decade.
People have been saying Animal Crossing cameout at the perfect time, but I think this game more so deserves that claim. Despite being from 2018.
Having such a social game be free and on mobile when a lot of the world was in lockdown was huge.
People have been saying Animal Crossing cameout at the perfect time, but I think this game more so deserves that claim. Despite being from 2018.
Having such a social game be free and on mobile when a lot of the world was in lockdown was huge.
From the looks of it all they need to do is put out a map every once in a while. Maybe update tasks. This sort of machine is primed to move itself all on its own.
Holy shit, that's *huge*. I know it felt like everyone was playing it but damn, everyone really WAS playing it!
Controls are fine, it's mostly the social things that are an issue (as in, you should probably be in discord on your computer / phone)
Incredible numbers. I don't think they'll hold after the pandemic ends but I'm blown away by how fast and how high Among Us has flown thus far.
Isn't this the game that the developer was worried about updating the network might break the server for a week or so?
Also, so much for those saying "it didn't deserve a award", LMAO. If a half billion player base game doesn't deserve, which game will???
Also, so much for those saying "it didn't deserve a award", LMAO. If a half billion player base game doesn't deserve, which game will???
I played it a bit, its fun but... I'll never understand all this success for the game...
Probably being free and heavily sponsorized by streamers?
It's all but perfect and the content is definetly not that much to be fun for a long time.
But I guess the fact I am not a big fan of multiplayer games is part of me not understanding probably...
Anyway happy for the developers! A free game, not full of microtransactions or dlc, not photorealistic graphic, easy to play and low budget, that has a huge success.
Probably being free and heavily sponsorized by streamers?
It's all but perfect and the content is definetly not that much to be fun for a long time.
But I guess the fact I am not a big fan of multiplayer games is part of me not understanding probably...
Anyway happy for the developers! A free game, not full of microtransactions or dlc, not photorealistic graphic, easy to play and low budget, that has a huge success.
It was smart of them to have it be cheap on PC and Switch and free on phones. I played for the first time last weekend. Three of us on Switches, two on PC and 5 on their phones. Many aren't gamers so it was great that they were able to just download it on their phones and play.
At which point you should probably just be using your computer/phone if that's the case, it's not a graphically demanding game by any means.
They are, although there aren't very many to buy. 16 bucks gets you everything.
I'm in the same boat as you and I am a big multi player gamer although my group consists of about 4 players consistently with 2 more joining every now and again.
Our go to games are Fortnite, Warzone, Apex Legends, Sea Of Thieves, State Of Decay 2, Destiny 2, Wreckfest, No Man's Sky, Rocket League, Smite among others. We tried it for a few sessions and it didn't click with us at all.
I can definitely see the attraction but after a few rounds I felt I'd seen all it had to offer and my time was spent better elsewhere.
It's still good amount of cash if decent portion of playerbase buys all cosmetics, especially when you get it all for so little.
I believe it, it's one of those games even people who don't really know much about games knows about (and many non-gamers I'm close with have been interested in the game I think due to celebs playing it, being a social game, etc). Add to that it's multiplayer, simple to run on everything, got a lot of exposure, etc.
Still insane though! I also can't imagine how the devs feel, having a small little niche title for two years suddenly blow up a couple years later to these insane numbers.
Still insane though! I also can't imagine how the devs feel, having a small little niche title for two years suddenly blow up a couple years later to these insane numbers.
Insane how 3% of your userbase can account for 64% of your revenue. How does this game earn money on mobile?
Do you play with randoms or do you have a group of people you know who you play with? Playing with randoms is significantly less fun. That said, I don't think it's a game you play for long stretches of time in one go. I play with a group on discord for somewhere between 2-3 hours once a week and it's a blast, but it's not a game you play much longer or more often than that imo
You must be kidding.
I bought it on Switch too, but let's not kid ourselves, specially because of the social game aspect (and their dumb decision to put future content into this unstable mess instead of doing the planned sequel), this will disappear and vanish as fast and instantly as it came, once streamers aren't playing anymore.
The default map is the best one, but the other two are still fun. It very much falls into the issue that a lot of battle royale games have where everyone gets used to one map and strategies around it so they are afraid to try others since you have to play an entirely different way.
I love Among Us and think there is certainly room to improve in terms of social deduction video games. It will be interesting to see if bigger companies start to jump on this bandwagon like they did with battle royale.
We just don't have many games that revolve around socializing with casual low-maintenance gameplay. Seems weird how niche the "genre" is, despite the massive popularity of Twitch/Youtube.
I guess it's not highly monetizable?
This game made by 3 people has become the game with the most monthly active players ever.
You think it'll be vanish? Lmao
The game has already been around for months in the mainstream and it's only getting more popular and now it's getting ported to consoles.
All games will eventually die out, but this game has been huge for a large part of the world lockdown and is continuing to grow. The heights that this game have reached might never be matched.
What the fuck ? Really ? Granted I'm a bit isolated these days, but I had to triple-check the number, it's ridiculous. That's 5 times the lifetime sales of GTAV.
I had no clue. I don't care about the game, but if gaming as a whole gets bigger, maybe we'll get more risky AAAs.
I had no clue. I don't care about the game, but if gaming as a whole gets bigger, maybe we'll get more risky AAAs.
