Among Us Voting Screen Gets a Glow-Up and a Twitter Beatdown

In the ever-suspicious world of Among Us, where every task is a potential alibi and every vent is a confession, Innersloth once again proved that even a tiny user-interface tweak can cause a galactic-sized fuss. Back on June 15, 2021, the developer rolled out its Anniversary Update, and among the many changes—bigger lobbies, new colors, a cleaner art style—was a redesigned voting screen. The old screen looked like an iPad had a baby with a tally sheet. The new one? It resembles an older Samsung smartphone, complete with a pill-shaped physical home button, because apparently even impostors appreciate a bit of retro hardware nostalgia. 🚀🔪

Functionally, nothing changed. Players still tap a name, cast a vote, and watch an election-style 'I Voted' sticker slap onto each nametag like a badge of civic duty in deep space. But the layout got wider, the nametags got smaller, and the whole thing now supports three columns of five—a necessity once Among Us opened its lobbies to 15 players. The update also introduced Rose, Gray, Tan, Coral, and Banana to the crewmate palette, because nothing says 'trust no one' like a suspiciously beige astronaut. 🗳️

Yet the real entertainment arrived on Twitter, where a user decided to poke the bear with a stick made of pure cynicism. 'What's the point of updating your game if literally nobody plays this,' they wrote. Innersloth, a studio that treats social media like an emergency meeting, replied with five words: 'what's a god to a non-believer.' The response racked up over 2,000 likes, while the original troll sat at a lonely 73. That is a ratio so brutal it should have triggered an automatic ejection. 😂

The exchange became a minor legend, partly because Innersloth's account is one of the few corporate voices on Twitter that feels like an actual person rather than a legal department. The studio retweets fan art, jokes about its own game, and generally refuses to be boring. Other companies could learn something: a little personality goes a long way, even when your player count has dipped from its pandemic-era peak. According to PlayerCounter, Among Us has still been capable of hosting over 1 million concurrent players at peak, which is not bad for a title that a random Twitter user declared dead.

Fast-forward to 2026, and the voting screen that caused such a stir is now just one small part of a much bigger story. The 15-player lobbies are standard. The cleaner art style has aged well. The console versions that were once promised for 2021—PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One—arrived and made the chaos controller-friendly. Hide & Seek turned the deduction formula into a playground game of tag with murder. New roles like Scientist, Engineer, Guardian Angel, Shapeshifter, Tracker, Noisemaker, and Phantom gave crewmates and impostors fresh ways to lie, die, and occasionally save the day. The fifth map, The Fungle, added mushrooms, zip lines, and yet another place to find a body. Custom visors let players accessorize while being absolutely sus. And Innersloth has continued teasing Among Us 3D, because the only thing better than accusing someone in 2D is doing it with a whole new dimension of paranoia.

Here is a quick look at how the voting screen changed, because tables make everything feel official:

The humor in all this is that the voting screen is, objectively, a minor thing. It does not add a map, a role, or a pet. It just makes 15-player lobbies readable. But Among Us has always been a game about small details—the tiny vent animation, the suspicious pause before a task, the way a single word in chat can ruin a friendship. A cleaner voting screen means fewer misclicks and more accurate accusations, which is exactly what a social deduction game needs. It also means the trolls have one less thing to complain about, though they will undoubtedly find another.

In 2026, Among Us is no longer the viral phenomenon that dominated 2020, but it is also nowhere near dead. It has become a perennial party game, the digital equivalent of a board game that never quite gets packed away. Innersloth keeps updating it, keeps joking about it, and keeps refusing to let a bad-faith tweet define its legacy. The new voting screen may look like a phone from a bygone era, but the game itself is still very much online. And if anyone asks whether updating it was worth it, the answer remains the same: what's a god to a non-believer? 🚀🔪🗳️