Hafu follows DisguisedToast as Among Us stars slowly quit the game

Rumay ‘Hafu’ Wang is the newest in a line of Amongst Us streamers taking a look at dropping the favored celebration recreation after rising bored. It comes after Jeremy ‘DisguisedToast’ Wang additionally claimed he was taking a break, and highlights a regarding pattern.

Amongst Us took Twitch and the gaming neighborhood by storm throughout 2020. The celebration recreation, developed in 2018, boomed from 50 common gamers a day to over 5 million.

Nonetheless, because the four-man growth crew tries to pump out content material for the sport, together with the brand new Airship map, streamers are slowly shifting away.

First it was Jeremy ‘DisguisedToast’ Wang deciding to take a break. Arguably the most important Amongst Us content material creator, Toast’s profession was reignited by the sport, catapulting him into stardom after his Hearthstone and Teamfight Techniques days.

Now, Rumay ‘Hafu’ Wang is becoming a member of him. Hafu claimed she solely has about “a month” of Amongst Us content material left earlier than the sport turns into too stale for her.

“I really feel very comparable [to Toast],” she mentioned on a current stream.

“Proper now I’m having enjoyable as a result of I haven’t performed with the brand new mods, however I don’t have the identical type of ardour that I had for Amongst Us.”

New content material simply doesn’t scratch the itch anymore. With the sport virtually solved for her, taking part in the celebration recreation simply doesn’t deliver the identical stage of enjoyment in comparison with almost a yr in the past when the craze caught on.

“The rationale why video games get boring for me is as a result of they cease mentally difficult me. As a substitute of studying new methods to suppose and new mechanics, it’s a data grind, again and again,” she mentioned.

“New maps don’t clear up that. New mods clear up that in Amongst Us ⁠— however as quickly as our group learns it, it’ll be accomplished.”

Hafu’s stream exploded in October 2020 after choosing up Amongst Us.

Hafu burning out of Amongst Us exposes pattern

The upcoming departure of two of Amongst Us’ largest content material creators is a part of a wider pattern that has seen the sport fall in reputation in 2021.

Since Amongst Us’ peak on Twitch again in September 2020 with almost 300,000 common viewers at anyone time, numbers have dropped by over 90% to only 20,000. It’s spiked often, however there’s a transparent and fast decline.

That is additionally seen within the recreation’s Steam charts. After peaking at 176,000 common concurrent gamers in October 2020, and a peak of 438,524 in September, Amongst Us struggles to drag in 20,000 common concurrent gamers on a month-to-month foundation.

Whereas Amongst Us would possibly see a resurgence sooner or later ⁠— like GTA RP has accomplished quite a few instances, most lately in March 2021 ⁠— it could be with out the celebrities that propelled the sport into the acutely aware of hundreds of thousands.