Fans have discovered a surprising reference behind the name of the Polus map in Among Us. The multiplayer hidden traitor experience has experienced a significant resurgence in popularity in recent months. following a rather obscure release in 2018. Fans have been engaging with it in all sorts of bizarre ways, including a strange new cosplay method involving one's own body parts.
Among Us succeeds through a unique and quirky mix of horror and comedy. The adorable, brightly colored astronauts and the cartoonish graphics mask a terrifying scenario that pits hapless space explorers against an alien threat masquerading as one of their own, a la The Thing. It's a strange premise, but the delightful social situations and debates that arise from trying to figure out who the impostor is has rocketed the game to success, surpassing even Fall Guys, another multiplayer game that saw fame thanks to its cute, bean-like characters.
One of the maps in Among Us further channels The Thing by bringing players to a remote outpost blanketed in snow. The map is known as Polus, and some fans on Reddit have recently discovered why. The game was created by PuffballsUnited, who also produced a series of point and click adventure games that were recently rereleased on Steam as the Henry Stickmin Collection. While these adventures have been flash games on the internet for years, the collection includes a host of new features, most significantly bios for every single character that appears in the game. In particular, fans found a bio for a character named Polus Petrovich. The bio states that Petrovich got a planet named after him after winning a sweepstakes, which is almost unquestionably a reference to Among Us's Polus map.
Since Petrovich's bio wasn't revealed until the release of the Henry Stickmin Collection in 2020, almost a whole year after the Polus map was introduced to Among Us, it's unclear exactly which came first. In the universe of the games, obviously, Petrovich named the planet, and then the characters of Among Us arrived to explore it and get terrorized by impostors. But it's largely unknown whether the developer had this incidental NPC named from the beginning and chose to commemorate him through the Among Us map, or named the character after the map and used his bio to explain the connection. Either way, it's a fun easter egg for fans of both games.
It's pretty impressive to see how far PuffballsUnited has come. From humble beginnings with simple stick figure adventure games to one of the most popular multiplayer games in the world today, this developer has managed quite the success story. It's nice to know that when it comes to the maps in Among Us, PuffballsUnited hasn't forgotten his roots.
Source: GavinGreener