Is a 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game developed and published by American game studio Innersloth. The game was inspired by the party game Mafia and the scice fiction horror film The Thing.
The game allows for cross-platform play, released on iOS and Android devices in June 2018 and on Windows later that year in November. The game was ported to the Nintdo Switch in December 2020 and on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in December 2021. A virtual reality adaptation, Among Us VR, was released on November 10, 2022.
Among Us takes place in space-themed settings where players are colorful, armless cartoon astronauts. Each player takes on one of two roles: most are Crewmates, but a small number are Impostors.
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Crewmates work to complete assigned tasks in the game while idtifying and voting out suspected Impostors (which appear idtical to Crewmates) by means of social deduction, while Impostors have the objective of killing the Crewmates.
While the game was initially released in 2018 to little mainstream atttion, it received a massive influx of popularity in 2020 due to many Twitch streamers and YouTubers playing it and the COVID-19 pandemic. It received favorable reviews from critics on account of its fun and tertaining gameplay. The game and its stylized characters have be the subject of various internet memes.
In this gameplay screshot of the original map, The Skeld, the white Impostor has killed the blue Crewmate. White's vision of the pink player has be partially obscured by the wall. Any player, including the killer, can report the dead body and trigger a meeting.
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And secretly chos to be the Impostors each round. As of 2021, four playable maps are available: a spaceship called "The Skeld, " an office building called "MIRA HQ, " a planet base called "Polus, "
The Crewmates can win the game one of two ways: either by completing all assigned tasks or by ejecting all Impostors. Impostors can likewise win in two ways: either by killing or ejecting all Crewmates,
At the start of the game, Crewmates are assigned "tasks" to complete around the map in the form of minigames, minipuzzles, and simple toggles, mostly consisting of maintance work on vital systems such as fixing wires and downloading data.
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Impostors cannot complete tasks, but may pretd to perform "fake" tasks to feign appearance as legitimate Crewmates. Impostors, however, can perform sabotages, ranging from minor (such as disabling lights, making Crewmates blind) to critical (such as disabling oxyg gerators), requiring immediate counteraction by Crewmates to prevt their deaths. Impostors may ter and traverse vtilation ducts (commonly known as "vting"), and kill nearby Crewmates. To help Crewmates idtify Impostors, there are various surveillance systems on each map, such as security cameras on The Skeld,
In addition, certain "visual tasks" provide animated cues, such as scanning oneself in the Skeld's medbay. As Impostors cannot perform tasks, Crewmates can use visual tasks to confirm their idtity to nearby Crewmates.
—who they believe to be Impostors based on available witness testimonies, with Impostors lying to hide their idtity or falsely accusing other players. Impostors can be idtified beyond reasonable doubt if they are se vting or killing a Crewmate, but ultimately players must weigh the veracity or value of each other's statemts. Players th vote for who they believe is an Impostor, if a plurality vote is obtained, the player who received the most votes is "ejected" from the game.
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Players who are killed or ejected become ghosts, which can still perform tasks (Crewmates) or sabotages (Impostors) but are otherwise unable to be se by or interact with living players. Effectively spectators, ghosts may see and pass through walls, follow players or other ghosts and chat with other ghosts.
A November 2021 update added additional specialized roles to the game: Crewmates can also be gineers, Scitists, or Guardian Angels. gineers can traverse vts like Impostors, albeit to a limited capacity. Scitists can check vitals at any time to see if any player has be killed rectly. Ghosts of Crewmates can become Guardian Angels, which can temporarily protect living players from being killed. Impostors likewise can be Shapeshifters, allowing them to temporarily morph into other players and assume their color and appearance.
An alternative 'Hide and Seek' gamemode was added in December 2022. There are no meetings or ejections, and a single Impostor (whose idtity is known to the Crewmates) attempts to kill all Crewmates within a fixed countdown timer. Crewmates must hide or flee from the Impostor and can complete tasks to roll down the timer, as well as ter vts for a brief time to hide from Impostors. Crewmates are also giv a display showing their proximity to an Impostor as well as the number of remaining Crewmates.
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Prior to each game, various options can be adjusted to customize aspects of gameplay, such as player movemt speed, the allowed number of emergcy meetings, number of tasks and visual tasks,
Or whether or not an Impostor is revealed after being voted off, allowing participants to manually balance the game's settings to their desires.
The idea for the concept was originally giv by Marcus Bromander, co-founder of Innersloth, who had played Mafia since he was a kid. In the original game, function cards were dealt and players wandered around a house, aimlessly, while another person secretly killed the players, drawing a finger around their neck. Most of its mechanics were still prest in Among Us, but the team wanted to "alleviate the need to create an interesting home model and have someone wandering around in a boring vironmt". So, they decided that the game would be space-themed and also added tasks, which, according to Forest Willard, programmer at Innersloth, "changed several times during developmt".
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Wh they began developing the first map, they intded that the ship was always in crisis and that the Impostors could do tasks. However, they found this setup "stressful" and decided that it "[wouldn't leave] much time for detective work and informed meeting conversations".
Willard described playtesting as painful and frustrating, as the game would break down during sessions forcing him to sd playtesters new builds off of Google Play. The team tested the game with 8 of their frids and never tested the game with 9 or the maximum of 10 players.
A "tightly packed headquarters roughly the size of The Skeld." A third map, Polus, was added on November 12, 2019, and is set in a research station.
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The fourth map, the Airship, was released on March 31, 2021, and is based on a location in the Hry Stickmin universe.
MIRA HQ and Polus originally cost players US$4 via in-app purchase. Their prices were reduced to US$2 on January 6, 2020, th made free on June 11, 2020.
While the map packs are still available for purchase on all platforms, they now only provide the player the skins that were bundled with the maps.
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According to programmer Forest Willard, the team "stuck with [the game] a lot longer than we probably should have from a pure business standpoint", putting out regular updates to the game as oft as once per week. This led to a steady increase in players, causing the game's player base to snowball. Bromander attributed this to the studio having ough savings to keep working on the game ev while it was not selling particularly well.
During this time, Forest Willard and Amy Liu continued to update Among Us, increasing the maximum player base, adding four servers and three regions,
On September 23, 2020, the team announced that they abandoned developmt of the sequel in favor of reworking the original game's codebase, which they described as "outdated and not built to support adding so much new contt", so the team made plans to rework the game's core code to able adding new features.
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In October 2020, colorblind support for the "wires" task was added to the Among Us beta on Steam, as well as some previously unannounced lobby customization options.
In mid-February 2021, the game added a feature called Quickchat, which replaces the standard chat interface with a series of preset phrases that players must pick from. Players under the age of 13 are required to use Quickchat, but those over 13 are also allowed to use Free Chat, which allows them to type text messages.
In addition, Game Awards prester Geoff Keighley's face was added as a skin. The map itself is based upon the Hry Stickmin series' Toppat Clan Airship.
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The accounts system was implemted along with the update, and it allows players to report players that are not following Innersloth's Code of Conduct in order to make the game a welcoming and respectful place. Punishmt includes temporary to permant bans. They also stated that reports would be viewed manually and not by bots, that account creations would be required if players want to use Free Chat or to customize their nicknames, and that people under the age of 13 would need their parts' permission to create an account. Implemting an account system also allowed Innersloth to add account linking and a friding system in future updates.
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