The breakout success of Among Us is surprising when you recall that this multiplayer game of find-the-impostor from developer Innersloth was originally released to neither acclaim nor fanfare back in June 2018, and was barely able to scrape together enough simultaneous players to fill more than a couple of games over its first few months of life.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep43yz/among-us-is-not-just-the-game-of-2020-its-2020-the-game