What is Among Us? How to play and download the game?

Among Us is a mind-fighting game with interesting gameplay developed by Innersloth LLC. As soon as it was launched, the game attracted a lot of attention from users with the number of downloads skyrocketing in just a short time. Let's learn about this game with TipsMake in the article below.

Overview of the game Among Us

Among Us is a multiplayer game, supported on Android, iOS phone operating systems and even on Windows computers. General information about Among Us is as follows:

1. Genre: Action game.
2. Graphics: 2D.
3. Mode: Online multiplayer game.
4. Age: From 16 years old and up.
5. Supported operating systems: iOS 10.0 or higher, Android 4.4 or higher, Windows 7.
6. Publisher: InnerSloth LLC.
7. Release date: June 15, 2018.
8. Game price: Free when playing on the phone and a fee of 70,000 VND applies when playing on the computer.

What is Among Us?

Among Us is an online game of intelligence and reasoning for groups of 4-10 people released on June 15, 2018 by studio InnerSloth LLC. Game Among Us is also commonly known by Vietnamese people as the Space Werewolf game.

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The game's context is in outer space, the group of players will participate as a brave crew member (Crewmate) searching for the truth or an evil impostor (Impostor) always looking for ways to destroy everything. People. The crew will participate in performing missions on the map while deducing to find the impostor. The fake faction will have to find a way to destroy members of the astronaut team without being detected.

The nature of the game Among Us is to solve the problem between the two factions Crewmate and Impostor. Impostor will need to destroy enough Crewmates to win. The Crewmate group will have to correctly deduce and vote on who is the most suspicious Imposter among the players. The person with the highest number of votes in each round will be taken out of the spacecraft. 

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Game Among Us gives players stressful but equally entertaining moments. When launched in 2018, Among Us did not receive much attention. However, in 2020, this game suddenly became popular with downloads increasing rapidly when many famous people on Youtube and Twitch livestreamed it.

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Among Us game review

Game Among Us supports players on both Android, iOS and Windows 7 operating systems by downloading from the application store. The game is designed with cartoon graphics and character images that are quite funny and fun. Among Us gives players quite interesting experiences with vivid graphics and sound.

Graphics

Game Among Us uses quite simple 2D graphics with animated scenes. According to general assessment, the game graphics are not as massive as many other games. However, the highlight here is creating characters with unique, impressive and adorable features. The game's background is a spaceship with many detailed designed scenes, combining many eye-catching colors to create excitement for players.

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Sound

Along with the eye-catching graphics, the sound system for the game's segments is truly impressive. The mysterious melodies played slowly while playing the game bring a very realistic feeling to the player, arousing curiosity and creating suspense. Along with that, sudden loud sounds emitted when a character is murdered increase the drama of the game, strongly impacting the player's emotions.

Game restrictions

This is a form of multiplayer game for many players. When participating in public games, players will randomly be assigned to the roles of Crewmate or Impostor. If playing with a group of friends, there are cases where players will intentionally or unintentionally reveal their identity in the game to others. This is discouraging to others and is considered cheating. Therefore, in order for the game to be legal, healthy and highly entertaining, players should absolutely adhere to the principle of not revealing their character's role.

In addition, many players also complain about hacking and cheating games in Among Us. Many mods and cheating software such as speed hacks, 'kill' cooldown hacks, 100% Imposter, etc. are used, making the game lose its balance and inherent fun. This makes gamers bored as well as a difficult problem for publisher InnerSloth LLC.

Instructions on how to play Among Us game

How to play Among Us game is not too complicated. When there are enough people according to the game's requirements of 4-10 people, players will be randomly assigned to Crewmate or Impostor roles. Specifically, how to play Among Us game is as follows:

If assigned the role of Crewmate

When being a Crewmate, you need to be very calm to be able to analyze behaviors and data collected from in-game situations. From there, we searched for and exposed the murderers, who were Impostor. The Impostors will not appear but hide behind gentle, happy, friendly faces and blend in with the characters in the game to trick everyone.

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Based on analytical experience, players will vote to indicate the correct Impostor. When the correct murderer is assigned, that character will be destroyed. The winning or losing factor will depend on your judgment and analytical experience.

At the same time, during the analysis process, the Crewmate also needs to ensure the implementation of tasks to ensure visibility and energy for the spacecraft to operate. When Impostor sabotages the ship, you will have to go fix the error so the ship can return to normal. If the time passes and the spacecraft is still damaged, the Crewmate side will lose.

If assigned to the role of Impostor

If assigned to the role of Impostor, you will be on the evil side but must pretend to be gentle and sociable so that the Crewmates cannot find out. During the game, you need to try to destroy as many Crewmates and fabricate as many alibis as possible. The purpose is to build their own innocence, while creating mutual suspicion among the Crewmates, causing disagreements in the Crewmates' search for Impostor.

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There will only be a maximum of 3 Imposters in the game, so you will have to distract the Cremates from finding the villain by giving an alibi so they don't vote to destroy you. The more times you play the game, the more experience you will have to be able to perfectly transform into the 'wolf in sheep's clothing' character.

How to play the game

In the waiting room, an information board will be displayed in the left corner so players can easily understand the game rules, tasks as well as find a reasonable strategy for themselves. The game also supports many different languages ​​suitable for players around the world. Although players cannot choose roles, they can choose rooms with the number of impersonators being 1, 2 or 3 corresponding to increasing difficulty to increase the drama.

The game will take place in 1 of 3 pre-designed maps in the game including: Spaceship, Headquarters and a Planetary Base.

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The Crewmate faction will have to take turns performing tasks that appear in the game such as connecting circuits, forming puzzles, taking out trash,. and repairing the ship when it is sabotaged. At the same time, when other players are murdered, Crewmates will analyze the data to deduce the evil person who is blending in.

The Impostor faction is only entrusted with fake missions, the main purpose of which is to assassinate crew members on the ship. At the same time, during the game, Impostor will have to sabotage the system, move in pipes to teleport to another area. Impostor has the ability to recognize and see other Impostors.

When a player is killed, they will turn into ghosts, able to move through walls and observe the game's progress but cannot interact with living characters. At that time, the killed player can also leave the game, but at that time you will not be able to know if the person who killed you will be exposed by other members or not. Staying and watching the game's progress also helps you learn a lot of experience to be better in the next games.

Crewmate will win when completing all missions before being killed by Impostors or finding all Impostors in the game. The Impostor side will win by killing Crewmates until the number of both sides is equal or until the spaceship repair time ends.

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Instructions for downloading and installing Among US

You can download Among Us for free and install it on your phone or computer to play with friends. Basic configuration requirements for operating systems are: Android version 4.4 or higher, iOS 10.0 or higher and Windows 7. Below are specific download and installation instructions.

Android

Installing Among Us on Android phones is very simple, you do the same as downloading and installing other applications.

1. Step 1: First, access the CH Play application on your device, enter Among Us in the search bar. 
2. Step 2: There will be a game installation with the corresponding name appearing with a red character avatar on a yellow background. Click on Install , wait for the game to be successfully downloaded on your device, then you can start playing.

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iOS

Similar to above, to download Among Us for free and install it on your iOS phone, follow these 2 simple steps.

1. Step 1: Open the AppStore application, enter the game name Among Us in the search bar.
2. Step 2: Select the game with a red character avatar on a yellow background, press the download button to start installation.

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Windows

There are two ways to download Game Among Us on your computer, including free download and paid game download to the publisher.

Download Among Us game for a fee from publisher Innersloth

To download the game directly from the website provided by the publisher Innersloth to your computer, you will have to pay a fee of 5 USD (equivalent to more than 100,000 VND) to buy the license key. There are 2 forms of payment: pay via PayPal or via credit card.

To access the website and download the game, click on this link: https://innersloth.itch.io/among-us

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Download Among Us game for free on emulator software

If you want to play games on your computer for free, you will have to play Among Us on emulators such as BlueStacks, Nox Player, MEmu, LDPlayer, etc. This article will guide you how to download games on BlueStacks, You do the same with other software. Detailed steps are as follows:

Step 1: Access the following link: https://www.bluestacks.com/vi/index.html and click Download BlueStacks .

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Step 2: Select the folder you want to store files on your computer -> Click Save .

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Step 3: After the file has finished downloading, click on the arrow mark in the left corner of the screen .

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Step 4: In the window that appears, select Run to start installing BlueStacks.

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Step 5: At the main interface, click Custom Installation in the lower right corner of the screen to install the drive stored on the computer.

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Step 6: Select the folder to save in .

Step 7: Click Make New Folder to create a new folder and then click OK. Note that you should not choose to save to drive C because it will fill up the memory capacity and slow down the computer.

Step 8: Then, click Install Now to start the installation. You wait a few minutes until the installation is completed.

Step 9: Once BlueStacks has been installed on your computer, the application will automatically open or you click on the application icon where it was stored.

Step 10: The Google Play window appears, select Sign In to log in.

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Step 11: Enter the email address in the window that appears, select Next

Step 13: Enter the password and select Next .

Step 14: Select I agree to agree to the application terms and continue installation.

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Step 15: Click ACCEPT . 

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Step 16: The Game Center window appears, enter the game name Among Us in the search bar at the top right corner of the screen to search for the game.

Step 17: Click Install and wait for the game to download. Once completed, BlueStacks will notify you. Finally, click Open to start playing the game on your computer.

Epilogue

Game Among Us has a gameplay that is quite familiar to users when adapting the rules of the popular Werewolf game. With impressive graphic design and vivid sound, Among Us gives players an extremely new experience with character designs and interesting gaming space. Hopefully with the instructions above from TipsMake, you can download and install the game easily on your computer to play with friends.

Marvin Fry

Update 12 October 2023