Among Us

Among Us is a 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game developed and published by the American game studio Innersloth. The game allows for cross-platform play; it was released on iOS and Android devices in June 2018 and on Windows later that year in November. It was ported to the Nintendo Switch in December 2020 and on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in December 2021. 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. Crewmates work to complete assigned tasks in the game while identifying and voting out suspected Impostors (who appear identical to Crewmates) using social deduction, while Impostors have the objective of killing the Crewmates. The game was inspired by the party game Mafia and the science fiction horror film The Thing. While the game was initially released in 2018 to little mainstream attention, it received a massive rise in popularity in 2020 due to many Twitch streamers and YouTubers playing it during the COVID-19 pandemic. It received favorable reviews from critics for fun and entertaining gameplay, and it has been considered among the greatest mobile video games of all time. The game and its stylized characters have been the subject of various internet memes. Following the game's success in 2020, the game has received multiple updates and spawned a multimedia franchise, with Among Us 3D launching in 2022, a TV series launching all-at-once in 2026, and a spinoff game, Among Us Story: On Guard, in development as of June 2026.

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Developer

InnerSloth

Publisher

InnerSloth

First release

June 15, 2018

Series

Not recorded

Cover

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Record ID

Q96417649