How to play Among Us: here is a quick and complete guide on how the popular group game available for PC, iOS and Android works.
What is it?
Among Us is in everything and for all a multiplayer game, the classic party game in which to have fun with different users at the same time. The general plot sees players move in a space but cartoonic setting, within a blocked and non-functioning spacecraft.
All players must achieve certain goals, called tasks, necessary to ensure the victory of the match. But there are the impostors, players who play the role of sabotagers and who are therefore hiding among the crew. The game session includes movement and movement within the ship to complete the tasks and others and a part dedicated to group consultation and voting aimed at staging the impostors (the player with more votes and recognized as such will be forced to abandon the ship and, consequently, to lose the game).
Game options are different: you can start games with random players, with friends connected in multiplayer through private rooms (generated by a specific code to share).
Once you put together your group you just have to start a game.
Task
The host, or the user who creates the game, can choose the number of tasks to be completed at the start of the game with the settings. There are three types of tasks that are given randomly at the start of the game:
Short – can be solved in a short time and consist of minigames;
Long – slightly more complicated and with more room shifts to be resolved;
Common – identical and shared for all players, they complete cooperating in teamwork.
Completing the tasks is the way the game tries to spur users to move on to the map of the ship, increasing the risk of finding themselves by making the player more vulnerable and exposed to the attacks of the impostor who moves, pretending to be a companion, to the entire structure.
The goal is to complete them quickly, so as to expose themselves to attacks as little as possible.
Movements and map in the ship
Knowing how to move within the map of Among Us is fundamental.
Through the button on the top and right you can consult a map to have a full view of the ship, with highlights (with “!”) to indicate the areas needed to complete the various tasks. The tip is to keep the map always open in the game screen so you always have the clear general picture and know how to move with intelligence.
Important is also to keep an eye on the map with the aim of detecting the movements of a possible impostor: manage your movements in the shortest possible time by quickly completing the tasks and preventing the impostors from hindering the plans of the group.
Making the impostor
Making the impostor is not easy but is perhaps one of the most interesting parts of Among Us. It is basically about deceiving other players by killing them when you are not observed or convincing the group that the impostor is someone else who is then sentenced to death (a little like Lupus in Fabula).
Do not be exposed and not arouse suspicion is of course the goal of any impostor who respects himself: among the unique skills granted to the player who plays this role there is to enter the conduits to hide from the crew. Remember to pretend also to complete the various tasks assigned so as to arouse suspicion and then hit at the most appropriate time.
If one of the impostors succeeds in committing a serious damage to the ship then it will go to the stage of Crisis: in this section it is possible even ambire to the victory for those who are part of the impostors but the group of vouchers is advantaged by the fact that all the components must focus on the resolution of the problem (with so many red arrows that indicate where they have to go to complete the resolution).
Chat and chat
Communicating is important in Among Us, especially in the most popular sections of the game.
You can choose whether to communicate via text chat or with a voice chat: a conversation with other crew members can only be started if they are the others to join.
You can obviously also use an external chat and you usually get a meeting to get rid of accusations or to formulate one, indicating from time to time the impostor.
The decision necessarily implies a confrontation between the parties, making the gaming experience entirely similar to a typical role-playing game in the flesh and bones.
Making ghosts
Ghosts can complete their tasks by helping the group arrive victorious at the end of the game.
