Among Us is a paid online multiplayer game released in 2018 but gained a massive online following in 2020. Developed by the team at InnerSloth, this game offers hours of fun in a minimalistic gaming environment. Part of the social deduction genre, the game takes place in a spaceship and consists of crewmates and one imposter. The task is to find the imposter before they end up killing everyone.
What is Among Us?
Among Us is a multiplayer video game where 15 random players find themselves in a spaceship or alien headquarters. Each player is assigned the role of either being a member of the crew or an imposter. Players can create a party of up to four people at any given time and join the game. You can also play the game online or on a local Wi-Fi connection.
What is the goal of Among Us?
It is a survival game where crewmates must complete the assigned tasks and vote out the imposter. On the other hand, the imposter must kill the entire crew or sabotage the completion of tasks. If you get dropped in as a pretend crew personnel, the game turns a lot more fun, as you get to kill everyone one by one before you’re discovered.
The game takes place on a spaceship and offers three levels. Players move around this alien ship using basic forward, backward, right, and left movements. Each player must move from one room to another, completing tasks without giving others any reason to vote them off. Only when a player dies can the crewmates talk and call an emergency meeting to discuss and remove a suspicious player.
If the game has 15 players, you can choose to have more than one imposter. Doing this makes the game fun and sends crewmates on a wild goose chase to pinpoint the killers. Additionally, dead crewmates turn into ghosts and can sit back and watch the rest of the game play out.
Featuring four maps
When you play Among Us on your Windows device, you can access four maps—The Skeld, Polus, Mira HQ, and the Airship. The default map is The Skeld, a spaceship featuring a circular layout with well-balanced spaces and bottlenecks. This map gives very little space for imposters to kill members without being seen. The other three maps are far more vast, giving the imposter more advantage.
