Among Us 3D: VR News

Fun fact, Beans — Today, January 31, is “Backwards Day.” And while we intend to further celebrate by exclusively running backwards, we wanted to also use the day to look backwards at last year’s accomplishments!


[h3]New Map, New Features, New Crewmates! [/h3]
From 🛠️ Custom Lobby Settings and 🦺 Player Safety Features to the brand new 🌋 Polus Point map and a closet full of new 🧢 Hats and Hat Packs 👑 — we launched a number of updates and additions to expand the game last year.


[h3]New Accolades for the Awards Cabinet 🏆[/h3]
We also got to flex a little, and we’re just a little proud of it. 🎉 Not to brag or anything… but Among Us VR earned numerous awards and nominations in 2023, including:

• The Unity Awards — Best AR/VR Game Winner
  
• The VR Awards — VR Game of the Year Finalist
  
• The Auggie Awards — Best Game or Toy Winner
  
• The Webby People’s Voice Awards — Best Social Gaming Experience Winner
  
• The Webby Awards — Best Social Gaming Experience Winner
  
• The D.I.C.E. Awards — Immersive Reality Technical Achievement Finalist

We’re incredibly honored to have received all of this recognition and are so grateful for everyone who has believed and continues to support us! 🥺 We’re doing it, Beans!


[h3]New 🎮 Gameplay Stats for the Books [/h3]
Now let’s dive into YOU. What all did you, our Crewmates and Impostors, accomplish last year? Well… seemingly a lot! We pulled a handful of interesting tidbits about how you played over 2023.

• Impostors won a majority of matches (58%) with only 15% of those wins coming from Sabotage victories
  
• Crewmate wins (42%) were almost always (93%) achieved through voting out the Impostor(s)
  
• The average Crewmate survived somewhere between one to two minutes per match
  
• 41% of matches ended with only one Crewmate being killed
  
• 98% of games were played in Public Lobbies
  
• Over 3 million beans were ejected
  
• Over 4 million Crewmate bodies were reported
  
• The most popular hats (by pack) were Trillbilly (Free), Plagued (Crew Favorites), Breathe Gud (Polus Point Picks), Note 2 Self (Accidental Favorites), Cap Cap (Fungle Fresh Picks), and Presents Dude (Festive Favorites)
  
• Contrarily, the Floatasaurus (Free), Headslug (Crew Favorites), Royal Ice-Ing (Polus Point Picks), Magical ‘Corn (Accidental Favorites), Sandmate (Fungle Fresh Picks), and Frosted (Festive Favorites) are the hat deserving of more love
  
• Red ranked as the most popular color throughout the year, being selected around 13% of the time; meanwhile, Brown was consistently the least used color every month, averaging around 4% of beans each month
  
• Purple saw the biggest jump in popularity, ranking 8th from January through March and leaping to 5th from May through October

[h3]✨ New Possibilities for the New Year! [/h3]
Looking backward at the past year can be fun, but we know you’re dying to know what lies ahead. ☠️ We’ve put together a roadmap for you showcasing our plans for the coming year, but… we’ll have to keep you in the dark a bit longer for now about specifics. Just know something will come to light very, very soon! 💡

Stay suspicious!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — Roadmap Time! ✨

We’re about to head out for our end-of-the-year holiday break. ☃️ But before we do, we wanted to leave you with a sneak peek at our plans for the upcoming year. Naturally, we can’t share everything we have in store… but we hope this early glance will bring the hype.



We’re incredibly excited to see the roster of Crewmates increase with our recently-added crossplay communities! That means even more beans to connect with — and using the new 👓 Spectator Mode 👓 to find that perfect lobby makes it an even better experience!

Speaking of improved experiences, we’ve been actively working on some updates to ✌️Quick Chat ✌️ that will be arriving to the game in the near future. A 🚧 New Role 🚧 will also be venting into the scene very soon. But most importantly, we’re excited to announce 🎉 In-Game Events 🎉. We’ll have even more details to share in the coming months, so get ready and be hyped!!

Our longer-term goals for the new year include some highly-requested features — yes, we know you want Cams in the Skeld II; we’re working on it! — and also some unexpected surprises! 🍳

Have questions that you want to ask our Dev Team about this roadmap? 🗺️ Well… we certainly can’t answer everything — deduction is the name of the game, after all! — but, we just might answer your question if you join us on our official Discord for our final AMA of the year!

Otherwise, we encourage you to continue utilizing our Official Support Form to share any bug reports or feedback directly with our team! We love to hear what’s important to you for the future of Among Us VR, so let us know.

Stay suspicious, beans! ✨

The year may be wrapping up, but we’re not ready to stop celebrating… so you know what that means! 🎁

It’s that time again, Crewmates! We’re hopping in with some of our Developers for one last Discord AMA of 2023 to spill the beans on all of the new Crewmates crossing over into the lobbies, what we’ve got engineered to roll into the game for 2024, and a whole lot of other bean shenanigans! ✨✨

Come join our discussion on Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 1pm PST / 4pm EST only on the official Among Us VR Discord server!

Have questions for our team? Submit them here:
> ❓ https://forms.gle/aLiK6ho7kGJSXR2Y6 Note: We may not be able to answer every question, but we appreciate you asking in case we can!

Stay suspicious, beans!

Can you believe it, beans?! Among Us VR launched one year ago on November 10!
We want to celebrate this milestone with YOU!

Come join Among Us VR Dev Team members in-game in our B.E.T.A. channel this Friday, November 10, 2023, starting at 4pm EST. We’ll be sharing lobby codes (as well as the instructions on how to join our B.E.T.A. if you haven’t already!) in our official Discord server!

Finish tasks alongside them as Crewmates, deceive and sabotage them as Impostors, or just maybe follow them into Electrical for a *killer* surprise!

Stay suspicious, beans!

LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOO!!! PATCH 8 TIME, BEANS! 🎉

From an assortment of customizations to keep you hooked from the newly-released-for-the-original-Among-Us Fungle map to a brand new way to join lobbies right here in the VR version… Exciting times have arrived, Beans!

🗺️ Come celebrate the launch of Innerloth’s new Among Us map with us!

[EMBED FUNGLE FRESH PICKS TRAILER]

Available now, this in-spore-rational Among Us VR hat pack — Fungle Fresh Picks — will solve all your seasonal blues (or most of them? we’re not doctors…)

These 6 hats are uniquely designed for Among Us VR so you can look Fungle fresh in our Polus Point and Skeld II maps.

The Hat Pack: Fungle Fresh Picks includes:

But that’s not all! Another wave of Freebea(n) Fungle Hats — get it? Like freebie? WE TRIED OKAY?! 😭 — is now available for all Crewmates… and Impostors, too, we guess.

The Freebea(n) Fungle Hats include:

But Patch 8 doesn’t just include Fungle-themed hats, Beans (we know they’re fabulous and have you ready to explore 😎). Also with this update, we're improving the flow of matchmaking!

You’ll now be able to join in-progress matches as an invisible Spectator. 👓 This will allow you ample time to observe the beans at play and determine if this lobby is right for you or if you need to eject yourself into the next group.

Additionally, we’ve added a new “Rematchmake” button that allows you to switch between matches without needing to return to the home screen. This will make finding new lobbies and new beans to play with even easier than before!

We hope these updates will greatly improve your lobby-finding experience and get you into more games with more Crewmates you want to play with! 🎉

And the best part? We’re not even done, Beans! We’ve engineered new experimental additions to the B.E.T.A. Channel that will be role-ing in soon! 🔧 You can learn more about the B.E.T.A. Channel and how to join on our Discord server — so be sure to join the Crew!

Stay suspicious.