Among Us is Innersloth's 2018 multiplayer social deduction game about crewmates completing spaceship tasks while hidden impostors sabotage the mission and try to eliminate the crew.
Among Us casts players as colorful crewmates aboard a spaceship and other compact maps, then secretly assigns one or more players as impostors. Crewmates win by finishing shared tasks or correctly ejecting every impostor, while impostors win by killing crewmates, creating confusion, and surviving the vote.
The game turns simple movement, short minigame tasks, emergency meetings, and body reports into a social contest. Its rules are easy to understand, but each round depends on suspicion, alibis, timing, map knowledge, and the ability to read the behavior of the group.
Originally released on mobile in 2018 before expanding to PC and consoles, Among Us became a breakout online party game in 2020. Cross-platform play, short match length, and livestream-friendly arguments helped it reach a much larger audience years after its quiet launch.
Among Us won Best Multiplayer Game and Best Mobile Game at The Game Awards 2020, and it continued to receive new maps, roles, cosmetics, and accessibility options after its surge in popularity. Its lasting identity comes from making deception, deduction, and group panic readable through a deliberately simple visual style.