Don’t be sus.
Innersloth’s Among Us has become something of a gaming sensation in 2020, some two whole years after it first quietly released as a free-to-play title on iOS and Android devices. Due to a combination of factors – which no doubt include huge Twitch popularity driven by its unique social dynamics and a captive lockdown audience looking for some simple multiplayer fun-times – this cute little indie gaming experiment is now one of the most talked-about titles of the year. Having been left out of the party up until this point, Switch owners finally get to join in the fun with a cross-play enabled port which has a few niggling issues here and there but, overall, delivers in serving up some super-addictive whodunnit hijinks.
Among Us sees groups of between four and ten players come together as crewmates aboard one of three claustrophobic spacecraft where they work together to complete a checklist of random tasks while keeping a keen eye out for an imposter or three lurking within their ranks. The imposter – or imposters – are randomly assigned at the beginning of each round and must attempt to murder all of the other players, sabotage their craft and generally cause a nuisance without raising suspicion and alerting their shipmates to their true identity, leading to them being called out during one of the game’s hilarious emergency meetings and ultimately jettisoned out of the ship and into the never-ending blackness of the space void.
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