Among Us is a hidden role-playing game similar to Castronegro's Werewolves. Although it existed in 2018, it has resurfaced in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic has caused people to search for games to play with friends and family, this being an ideal game. In this guide we will explain everything you need to know about the game that captivated children and streamers.
If you still have questions about Among Us, below you have all the information you need to know about this game of hidden identities. An extensive guide on everything you need to know before starting to play Among Us. Or things that after playing many hours, you have not known or discovered.
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How do you play Among Us?
Among Us is an online game about secret identities. It is available on Steam, iOS, and Android with cross-play. If you want play for free, you have the mobile version that includes ads and microtransactions for cosmetics. The PC version on Steam it includes everything for 3,99 euros.
In each game, the game chooses the crew members and the impostors. Each of these two sides has its own objectives. Crewmembers may not speak to each other other than in a meeting when an emergency has been declared by pressing the button in the cafeteria, or when a body has been reported.
What to do when you are a crew member
You have two victory conditions: do all the tasks and expel all the impostors. To do the tasks, it is necessary for all the players to do their job and go where they are asked. The tasks are small mini-games that cover part of the view, so it is possible that an impostor can approach them to kill them. If all the crew do their jobs, they win the game.
Important: If the impostor kills you or gets kicked out, you'll still have to do your ghost tasks to win the game.
The crew members are the only ones who can perform tasks, including those to repair sabotage that can end the game if it is not solved quickly. There are some tasks that have visual effects on stage and there you can confirm if someone is an imposter or not. If the impostor sabotages equipment on the scene, the crew will have to do additional tasks to get the lights back or not to all die.
To win by expelling impostors, you have to agree the players to vote for the imposters.
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What to do when you are an impostor
Your mission is to kill enough crew members, generally until there are only the same number of crew members left as there are impostors. To kill a crew member you have to be close to him, but be careful because your killing ability has to wait to reload, and you have to avoid being seen doing it.
You have two advantages in your favor: being able to use the hatches and sabotaging the stage. The hatches allow you to move quickly between rooms to flee or set traps for crew members. But be careful because the crew can see you go in and out of the hatches and accuse you.
Sabotage allows you to dull the light from the entire stage, trap crew members in certain rooms, or jeopardize the stage, and thus achieve victory if the crew fails the emergency task.
Meeting and voting
Meetings can be called in two ways: emergency meetings or reporting bodies. Each player has a certain number of requests for emergency meetings to advise if they have seen something suspicious or have evidence that someone is an imposter.
For his part, a player does not have meeting limits per body report, but must be next to a body to request the meeting. The imposter can also report bodies that he has killed in an attempt to blame someone else.
In meetings, this is the only time that in-game chat can be used to communicate. It is the moment in which to expose evidence and alibis to prove one's innocence or the guilt of the imposter. Players can vote who to kick, or decide not to kick anyone. Only a player will be expelled if he receives a simple majority of votes, it is not enough to tie with the option of not firing anyone.
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Among Us Scenario Guide
The skeld
It is the starting map of Among Us. Its size is quite small and simple enough not to get lost. In the security room, players can use the surveillance system to see if there is something suspicious like an imposter killing in corridors or see that their movements do not correspond to the map, but the latter is more complicated.
Look at hq
In this second map of Among US, you all start in the area of the shuttle. To go to the Reactor and the Laboratory you have to go through the decontamination area, which involves waiting.
Poles
The largest map in the game. Instead of windows, imposters can use holes in the ground. This map also has a different security system than the other maps, and the meetings are held in the office. To combat the impostor, users can open the sabotaged doors through a minigame.
Among Us Task Guide
Below we are going to list the tasks you can do in Among Us. There are some exclusive to some maps, and others that are shared across two or three.
The Skeld Exclusive Tasks
Align motors: You have to reposition the deviated motors so that they are more or less horizontal.
Calibrate distributor: You have three buttons to press at the correct time. O To the left of each button there is an indicator and you have to press the button as soon as the marker lines up with the connector on the right side of the circle.
Mark tour: A very simple task that consists of moving the ship from left to right following the striped path.
Clean O2: You have to move the blades to the chute on the left.
Inspect the sample: Press the button and wait 60 seconds for the samples to process. You can do other tasks in between. In the second part, you have to choose the different color swatch.
Stabilize the course: Move the offset cross to the center.
Mira HQ exclusive tasks
Buy a drink: At the bottom right you have a drawing of what you have to buy. You have to enter the correct code in the vending machine.
Enter code: On your card you will see a code that you must enter in the control panel.
Run the diagnostics: Push the button. You will have to wait 90 seconds that you can use to do other tasks. When it is finished, you will have to detect the anomaly in the results they show you.
Catalog samples: You will have to divide a series of samples between those that are of animal origin (bones), vegetable (plants) or mineral (stones).
Water the plants: Touch the plants to water them.
Exclusive Polus Tasks
Align telescope: You have to find a planet that they give you as an example at the bottom right.
Fill cylinders: You have to click on the oxygen cylinder and wait for it to fill. Two bottles need to be filled.
Fix weather module. Divided into two parts. The first part is to overcome a small maze. The second is to press the buttons that are not activated.
Enter the key: insert the key into the protruding bolt and turn it to the left or right.
Monitor the tree: Bring the level indicators to the dotted lines.
Repair Drill: click repeatedly on the exclamation marks.
Scan your pass: Click the small triangle, then the large one, and move the swipe over the red scanner.
Open the water valves: Open three valves marked on the map. They are opened by turning the valves in a clockwise direction.
Shared tasks on multiple maps
Destroy asteroids: On all three maps. Tap on the screen to destroy asteroids. This work is visual and can be used to prove your innocence by watching the cannons move, except in Mira HQ.
Redirect electricity: At Skeld and Mira HQ. You have to look at the panel to find out which room needs electricity and turn up its switch. Then, you have to physically go to the room, find its electrical panel and press or click on it.
Empty garbage: On all three maps. Move the lever down in the cafeteria. In Mira HQ and Polus it only has one phase, in The Skeld, it has two parts, but each one can serve to show that you are a crew member because other players will see that you are taking garbage.
Fix cables: On all three maps. Connect each wire on the left to the one of the same color on the right.
Refill engines: Fill the can of gasoline and pour it into the engine that they indicate. Except in Mira HQ, you have to repeat the refill and take the gasoline to a different point.
Start the reactor: On all three maps. Follow the patterns that the panel on the left tells you and enter them on the right, as in the electronic game Simon Dice.
Receive a diagnosis: On all three maps. Get on the platform and wait for the diagnosis to finish. It is from the tests with visual effects, so it is recommended that you do it in front of colleagues to prove your innocence.
Use the card: On all three maps. Move your card from right to left at the proper speed for the reader to read it correctly.
Download data: In Skeld and Polus. They will send you to data panels to download and then upload them to administration in Skeld, or to Communications in Plus. Once you start the download or upload, you will have to wait about nine seconds.
Reload shields: At Skeld and Mira HQ. Check the hexagons in red. It is one of the few tests with visual effects on the map that can show your innocence.
Tasks against sabotage
Our Among Us guide could not be without tips to solve the sabotage. The imposter has the ability to perform various sabotages and these must be corrected by the users. The correction of these sabotages is:
- Fix oxygen: a password must be entered in each of two terminals. Failing this test grants the impostor victory.
- Meltdown of the reactor or readjust seismic stabilizers: Two players must press a button at different points on the map at the same time. Failing this test grants the impostor victory.
- Arrange communications: Two players at different points on the map must repair communications. This sabotage makes the crew members unable to know the tasks they must do.
- Repair the lights: Press the buttons to return the light. Imposters will not be affected by the lack of light.
- Open closed doors: Only in Polus. Open the latches to open the door.
How to play Among Us
On PC, you can buy the full game on Steam or the Epic Games Store. for 3.99 euros that includes all unlocked cosmetic items. You can too play for free to the Android or iPhone version, which include ads and microtransactions for cosmetics. You can play the PC version on Android using Android emulators. If you want, we also write a guide to how to play Among Us for free on PC.
It is also available in the digital stores of Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PlaYStation 4
[irp]Do I need to play Among Us with friends?
No, it is not mandatory at all. You can create private games with keys to invite friends, but it is easy to join a public game. What's more, it is much more interesting to communicate with strangers and have to prove your innocence or blame others using as the only reference supposed clues in the game chat that only lasts a few minutes.
You can play with friends, clearly. But it is a much more exciting experience with the addition of anonymity.
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Tips for playing Among Us
After several games playing, we can make a small list of tips for the players, dividing between crew members and impostors.
Tips if you are a crew member
- Keep an eye on crew members with strange behavior: See if a crew member follows you too much or does not stay long to do tasks, or if it takes too long to do them.
- Optimize your journeys: Learn the map of the ship well and calculate a route based on your tasks. Try to always start by processing the samples to take advantage of each other doing other tasks.
- Attentive to tasks with visual impact: In Skeld, you will see leaves in space if someone empties the trash. You'll see the shields light up if someone reactivates them. You will see shots outside when someone is shooting asteroids. A crewmember scanning will have readers scanning him. Remember that only crew members can do these tasks, so if you have to do them, do them in front of one or more to show that you are not an impostor, and be attentive to those who do them.
- Reporting a body does not mean being innocent: An imposter can report the body of the crew member he has killed.
- Do not remain silent in the chat: It is usually considered that you are hiding something.
- Don't hesitate to ask for an emergency meeting: If by elimination you know who is an impostor and who is a crew member, or you saw the impostor using windows, call your colleagues in the cafeteria or office and try to get a vote for him.
Tips if you are an imposter
If you are an impostor, you also have your space in this guide on Among Us. The role of the impostor is important and it is that in the end he is the one who puts the sauce on this interesting game. We are going to give you some types to win the game:
- Take advantage of sabotage: You have every chance to cause confusion and go unpunished. Turning off the lights will give you a great advantage to kill a crew member without causing suspicion.
- Use the escape windows: Don't underestimate them. They can help you set traps for the unwary or escape.
- Don't be desperate to frame someone: Those who are obsessed with putting the blame on someone else can expose themselves as an impostor, whether it is real or not.
- Try to make it difficult to trace your provenance: Leaving a room where there is a body and not reporting it is highly suspicious.
Future updates of Among Us
After ruling out a second part, InnerSloth assures that they will work on improvements for the game. Within this guide on Among Us we also wanted to keep you updated on future implementations. Some of these improvements have already been released, some of them being partially implemented. Those that are known are:
- Best servers: It is a problem that dragged on since it became popular in the summer of 2020. They will improve the servers and the code so that there are fewer problems. And it is that at the time not enough people played it to fill a game and now millions play it.
- Help for color blind: The game has a high dependence on color. You need it to recognize players and for some tasks like electrical cables. It was a problem that was overlooked at the time but it was not to be solved to help color blind players.
- Buddy system: The game is becoming a social network in itself like Fortnite. In addition, a system will be added that allows reporting toxic users or cheats within the game
- New map: For now they have three, but a fourth based on Henry Stickmin, a previous game from the creators of Among Us, is looming.
- Anonymous votes: The votes will be made anonymous, to make it difficult to find the impostor and avoid quarrels between users.
- More players per game: The 12-player and 15-player options will be added per game.
- Progress bar: The option will be added in the game configuration that allows to leave the progress bar always visible, never to be seen or only seen during the voting process.
It is expected that all this content will be coming to Among Us completely free to thank the community for their unexpected support. We will update the Among Us guide as new content is added.
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