A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding and Playing the Digital Gaming Phenomenon Among Us

Among us is a digital game that has taken the online entertainment world by storm. If you go onto any social media site or YouTube page, you’ll see some of the biggest influencers recreating characters from the game, trying to bring the game into real life by establishing their own impostors and characters and just a general interest in this game. 

This game is essentially a mix match of topics, it brings in adventure, puzzle solving and murder mystery. By puzzle, it’s not an actual puzzle but rather just trying to build together blocks to make sense of the mystery that is happening. If you perhaps haven’t heard of this game before or if you have but you’re not really sure whether you should play it or how to get started, then you’re in luck, as this article aims to shed light on a beginner guide to understanding and playing this digital game phenomenon called Among Us.

The Basic Rules of the Game

In layman’s terms, you essentially have crewmates and you have an impostor. The aim of the crewmates is to try to get all of their tasks done whilst figuring out who the impostor is. The aim of the impostor is to silently kill all the crewmates without actually being caught. It’s quite a slippery game, as it’s not as easy as it sounds. If you’ve ever played games like Mafia at home, you’ll understand how this game works, as it’s a mix-match of crewmates needing to sort of work together but the impostor simultaneously tries to kill crewmates, so it’s quite an adventure.

Gaming Features

One of the best ways for you to understand how the game works is to understand the features that are within the game. Just like with any game, the features form the bedrock of how successful a game is. Even if you go outside of Among Us and dive into casino games, again, you’ll want to look at nifty features, like a list created by Bonus.ca which outlines the best casino bonuses out there.

Continuing with Among Us, seeing as there are quite a lot of different things that you can click on and do, the best way for you to understand it is through a list and then as you play you can refer to this list to see if you truly comprehend what is happening.

So, first things first:

• Imposters: imposters in Among Us refer to the characters who are meant to be doing the killing of the crewmates. If the lobby of the game is small, then the game will decide to have a few impostors but if the lobby is big then there will be more impostors. So depending on how many players are in the game, will determine how many imposters they are.
• Crewmates and crewmate vision: so, Among Us is played in a spaceship simulation, as a crewmate, you are trying to complete your tasks but also figure out who the impostor is. The crewmate vision that you have refers to how far around the spaceship you’re able to see.
• Imposter vision: just like the crewmates have vision, the impostors do as well. Typically the impostors get better vision to make their jobs a little easier.
• Confirm ejects: this is a nifty feature for crewmates to use and it’s something you can enable or not enable. If you have it enabled, you can see if the impostor that you just ejected was an impostor or a crewmate. If it’s not enabled you can’t see this information.
• Emergency meetings: emergency meetings amongst crewmates are really important to make sure that they’re on the same page regarding who the impostor is. You will get a clear sign of how many emergency meetings you’re allowed to call from the center of the map.
• Discussion time: there is a cap to your discussion time i.e., how long crewmates are allowed to discuss who the impostor is before they actually have to vote. This puts a little bit more pressure on the crewmates to make decisions fast and it also allows them to make mistakes, giving imposters the chance to slip away.
• Kill cooldown: this feature refers to the impostors and it is the amount of time that impostors have to wait before making the next kill of the crewmate. Typically, the more imposters that are in the game, the longer this cooldown period is.
• Kill distance: this is the distance that the impostor has to be in to make a killing, the fewer imposters there are, the shorter the distance is and the more impostor they are typically the longer the distance is.

Final Thoughts

For a game that only came out in 2018, it is clear that it has become one of the most popular ones out there.

If this game sounds interesting to you, remember you can always create your own avatars so that you can play in a more tailored manner. Furthermore, you can play with a smaller lobby so that you’re not as overwhelmed to start and if you ever have any questions, Among Us has an excellent FAQ section that you can refer to.

Well, now that you know everything about Among Us, do you think this is a game that you would want to play in your free time?