Innersloth

What Innersloth is

Innersloth is an independent game studio and the developer and publisher of Among Us. The studio's own press kit states that it was founded by Forest Willard and Marcus Bromander in 2015 and that it is mainly based around Seattle, in the United States, with employees and partners in other parts of the world. Innersloth describes itself as a small independent studio, and its press material repeats that it stayed small while continuing to add content to its games.

The studio handles both development and publishing for its titles. On Steam, Among Us is listed with Innersloth as developer and as publisher. The studio's Among Us press kit gives the game an age rating of E10+ alongside PEGI 7, an AU/NZ PG mark, CERO B and GRAC 15+, and lists a public relations contact and a PO Box in Redmond, Washington, as the studio's mailing address.

How the studio started

Willard and Bromander met in college and created Innersloth as a partnership in 2015 in order to release their first title. According to the studio's history, the two worked part time on several unreleased games before going full time on independent development in late 2018, the point at which Among Us became the studio's focus. Bromander, who is known online as PuffballsUnited, had been making games on Newgrounds since 2008, before the partnership existed.

Among Us started as Bromander's idea, combining a party game he played as a child with the premise of the film The Thing. The team wanted a version of that game that did not require a real house full of players. Among Us was originally released for mobile in 2018 with local play only, and the studio states that it was built by three people: Willard, Bromander and, later, Amy for additional art.

Among Us after 2020

The studio considered Among Us complete in January 2020. The game gained worldwide popularity in the summer of 2020 and the team went back to working on it. Innersloth's Among Us press kit reports that in November 2020 the game had almost 500 million monthly active users, that it had gathered more than four billion views on YouTube by October 2020, and that it recorded more than 1.22 billion viewing sessions on Twitch in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Awards listed by the studio include The Game Award for Best Multiplayer Game and for Best Mobile Game in 2020, the Golden Joysticks Breakthrough Award in 2020, a Webby Breakout of the Year Award in 2021, a Mobile Game Awards best indie developer award in 2021 and the Kid's Choice Award for Favorite Video Game in 2021. On Steam, Among Us carries a release date of November 16, 2018, after the earlier mobile release.

How the studio operates

Innersloth remains independent. Its press materials name no parent company or outside owner, and the studio is described in them as a small team founded by its two partners. The studio runs separate press kits for individual projects, including one for an animated show based on Among Us and one for a virtual reality version of the game produced by another developer, whose assets are hosted on that developer's site.

Brand assets for Innersloth and Among Us are distributed by the studio for press use, and its press kit page directs journalists to a support desk for non-press questions. The studio's public history and the dated entries in its press kits are the main record of how the company has grown from a two-person partnership into a studio with partners in several countries.

Games

• Among Us
• Among Us - Bedcrab Pet Bundle
• Among Us - Brainslug Pet Bundle
• Among Us - Hamster Pet Bundle
• Among Us - Mini Crewmate Bundle
• Among Us - MIRA HQ Skins
• Among Us - Polus Skins
• Among Us - Stickmin Pet Bundle
• Among Us 2
• Among Us 3D
• Dig2China!

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