Among Us - Gameplay

Among Us is an online multiplayer party game. The game is developed and published by American game studio InnerSloth and released on June 15, 2018. The game has a group of players in a space-themed setting each take on one of two roles, most being Crewmates, and some being Impostors. The goal for the Crewmates is to identify the Impostors and eliminate them while completing tasks around the map, and the Impostors' goal is to kill all Crewmates without being identified. While initially released in 2018 to little mainstream attention, the game received an influx of popularity in 2020 due to many well-known Twitch streamers and YouTubers playing it. In response to the game's popularity, a sequel was announced in 2020. Gameplay Among Us is a multiplayer game, supporting 4–10 players. 1–3 of these players are randomly selected each game to be Impostors, while the rest are Crewmates. The game can take place on one of three maps, two of them being a spaceship and one a planet base. Crewmates are given tasks to complete around the map consisting of maintenance work on vital systems, such as electrical rewiring and fueling engines. Impostors are given a fake list of tasks, and have the ability to sabotage the map's systems, traverse vents, identify any other Impostors, and murder Crewmates. The goal of the Crewmates is to complete all tasks before being murdered, with a secondary goal being to find and eliminate the Impostors; the goal of the Impostors is to kill every Crewmate by murdering enough such that the number of Impostor(s) is equal to the number of Crewmate(s), either by directly killing them or through sabotage. If a player dies, they become a ghost, whose goal is to help any remaining members of their team. Ghosts have the ability to pass through walls, but can only interact with the world in limited ways and are invisible to everyone except other ghosts. When an Impostor performs a sabotage, there is either an immediate consequence (such as all the lights being turned off) or a countdown will begin, and the sabotage must be resolved before it finishes, or else all the Crewmates will die. Sabotages can be resolved by Crewmates in varying ways depending on which sabotage is done. If a player finds a dead body, they can report it, which will lead to a group meeting where players discuss who they believe an Impostor is, based on the evidence surrounding the murder. If a majority vote is reached, the chosen person is ejected from the map, dies, and it is revealed whether or not they were an Impostor. Players may also call an "emergency meeting" by pressing a button in the map at any time.The game can either be played with voice chator a text chat,wherein players can only communicate during meetings, and only if they are alive, although ghosts can speak with each other.