And what did we do during the second wave? What excited us, amused us, occupied us during the long evenings of the curfew and dinners with up to six people? Filed the hymns on the balconies, the yeast and the group video calls of the first lockdown, what did we do? One day they will ask us and that day we will answer: Among Us. It is a video game, even rudimentary in its graphics, which is becoming popular. Not just among kids. Take a ride on Twitter and you will find out how many adults are there looking for mates to make a game on the fly, who share screenshots of the challenges just ended, who make fun of themselves or who tell about that type or that girl just met playing that seems irresistible . Tonight there was even US Democratic Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio Cortez planning a public match to get more people to vote in the White House election.
I don’t remember something as overwhelming between different generations as this video game: not Ruzzle, the lyricist of 2012; not Pokemon Go !, the treasure hunt of 2016. And definitely not the very luxurious Fortnite, Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto. Also because Among Us is a success that came by chance and suddenly: it was developed by a small company of the state of Washington created by three young strangers. It is an artisanal and imperfect product: launched two years ago and literally ignored until the pandemic in recent months beat the competition. Because? Why it was chosen by video game stars for their social media, it was written. But that was the detonator. The explosive was the mechanism of the game: between four and ten players in a spaceship adrift, each trying to do their duty to get to their destination, but among them there is always an imposter who boycots us. Who is it? It is not known. And trying to find him, the players accuse and excuse themselves. They are “the ten little Indians” by Agatha Christie, it is the same mechanism of many other games. A mechanism that always works. Because there is always an imposter in our life trying to sabotage the ship that has to bring us to safety. Even now that we have to fight the virus and we always blame others for the infections that rise. Imposters. The Vice wrote: Among Us is not only the game of 2020, it is “The” 2020 “in game version.
Those who play Among Us this link don’t, those who play just enjoy it. These days, however, it is not cheap.
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