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Among Us

Among Us (2018) is a strategy game where crew-mates prepare their spaceship for launch by completing tasks. However, one of the players is an impostor intent on sabotaging the ship and killing the crew. As the game progresses in real-time the impostor carefully picks off players, who can then pause the game for an emergency meeting to discuss and vote traitors off the ship.

 

The novelty with Among Us is that you don't know who the traitor is so it becomes a game of wits as much as action. Like a parlour game, you must implicate other players in any killing or sabotage to deflect suspicion from yourself. The crew can vote to eject suspicious players. Being able to do this on a game with up to 10 people, each on separate devices is a lot of fun for the family.

The impostor wins by doing away with all the crew, while the crew win by managing to repair the ship and eject all the impostors. To do this they must react quickly to the sabotage and use admin maps and security cameras to keep tabs on other people.

You can opt for a Local or Online game. If playing with people you don't know you can select the Censor Chat mode that limits words and aims to blank out profanity.

Among Us is not on PlayStation or Xbox. Among Us, 2 has more chance of being on a console, although this will come to PC and smartphones first. There is a Roblox version of the game for Xbox, PC and smartphones. Roblox Among Us and (more popular) Roblox Impostor offer a similar experience.