how to play among us

Dilbag Singh
3 min readOct 7, 2020

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The next entertaining thing in 2020 is a social deduction action game “Among us” by Innersloth, It is the most downloaded game of Q3 2020 with 41 million downloads in September 2020,. It can be played online or over local WiFi between 4–10 players .Among Us is currently available on Android and IOS devices apart from the PC platform. However, the game is only available on PC via the Steam store.

Theme and Goal

The theme is space based, where you attempt to prepare for the departure of your spaceship.You have to show you negotiation skills and get rewarded respect among your crew mates .You have to be a detective , in continuous discussion with your teammates for this game

The goal is to to identify the impostors,eliminate them, and complete tasks around the map,and the impostor’s goal is to covertly damage the spaceship and kill the crew mates to prevent the ship to departure.

How to Play

If you want to play online you can either host a Game , or you can join a public or private game.

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If you host a game you have control over how to play game , which mean you can control number of players , impostors ,players speed and many other settings.

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If you want to play with friends, set private and share your room code or join the room they have created or you can also play online with others from all around the world.

What Crew mates do ?

The objectives for the crew is to either fill Group task bar or Discover the impostors. They have to react to impostor’s sabotage,call emergency meeting when impostor is found, report dead bodies , and securities for suspicious activities.If a crew mate get killed by impostor it can not talk until the game ends, The killed crew mate convert into ghost and still can run their assigned tasks.

What impostor do ?

On the other hand, Impostor have to kill off the crew,They have to blend in crew mates, sneak through vents, pretend to run tasks, sabotage the ship, trap victims.

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Emergency Meetings

when someone reports a dead body or calls an emergency meeting, the crew gather to discuss what they know about impostor.However ghost can not talk in meeting as they already know who the impostor is.

Impostor will have to prove their innocence and accuse other crew mates.

fun part

after the meeting voting can be done , and the one with most votes get ejected,So you have to be smart to to catch the impostor and save innocent crew mates , however you can skip voting to eject someone from ship.

Tips and Advice's

Crew mates tips:

  1. Rather than focusing on finding impostors first try to complete your tasks.

2. Inform teammates about sabotage events.

3. Check Cameras, Door Logs, and Vitals while completing your tasks.

Impostor tips:

  1. Keep moving , to look busy.
  2. use Vents to disappear, but remember it’s worth waiting a few seconds to see which Crew mates are nearby, to prevent getting caught.
  3. Watch out for cameras ,Crew mates use the security cameras to check up on others, so avoid killing them in the views of camera.
  4. Report bodies , to gain their interest.
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Dilbag Singh

Young, broke and software engineer. On voyages of words to prevail the world of thoughts.