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Among Us is a free social deduction game set on a spaceship, where most players are Crewmates completing maintenance tasks and one or more are Impostors quietly killing them off. Crewmates win by finishing every task or voting out the Impostors; Impostors win by reducing the crew to their number without being caught.

The tasks are deliberately mundane — swiping a card, aligning an engine, downloading data — and their real purpose is to scatter the crew into isolated corners of the map where an Impostor can act. Every task you complete fills a shared progress bar, which means Impostors are under time pressure too: stall too long and the crew simply finishes the job and wins.

The game is decided in meetings. Anyone can report a body or call an emergency meeting, and the discussion that follows is where the actual play happens: accounting for who was where, whose task claims are plausible, and who is a little too eager to vote. Impostors have sabotage tools — cutting the lights, disabling comms, triggering a reactor meltdown — that force the crew to split up or drop everything, and used well these are far more effective than any individual kill.

Move your character around the ship and complete the tasks listed on the left of your screen if you are a Crewmate. If you are an Impostor, blend in by faking tasks, use vents to move quickly, and eliminate Crewmates when no one is watching. Report bodies or call emergency meetings to start a discussion, then vote for who you believe the Impostor is.