How to Win at Among Us for People That Don’t Play Much

So, your friends are asking you into playing Among Us every night, but you keep losing. Don’t worry about it, man. It’s fine. The point of games with friends isn’t to win all the time, it’s to have spend an enjoyable evening with people you care about. But alright, yeah, winning can fun too.

Here are some simple tips and tricks to help you from getting ejected out the airlock every game.

CREWMATE TIPS:

1.   Stop running off by yourself. That’s why you keep dying first, man. You’re an easy target. The imposters know you’re a new player. A baby antelope that’s separated from the herd.

2.   Find a travel buddy. Pick a player you think isn’t the imposter. (This can be difficult.) Run around with them and hope they don’t kill you. Or, better yet, pick two players. Keep an eye on both of them.

3.   If you’re with a travel buddy at one end of the map, and a sabotage is called at the other end of the map…run for your life. Your travel buddy is probably about to kill you.

4.   It takes 10 seconds to do a download or an upload. So, if you see someone standing near one of those Wi-Fi symbols, count to 10. If they run off after 5 seconds, they were probably faking it, and might be an imposter.

5.   Stop just blindingly voting for people if nobody has any proof. The easiest way to give the imposters the lead is to give them a free kill. If nobody has any good evidence, then you should skip the vote.

6.   Watch who runs off with who. If red and blue run into electrical together, and a sabotage is called, and red is later found dead, then 99% of the time it was blue that killed them.

7.   Learn the visual tasks. If you see someone do a visual task, like the Medbay Scan, then you know they’re 100% not an imposter. On The Skeld, the visual tasks are Medbay Scan, Asteroids, Shields (most people don’t know this one), and Garbage.

IMPOSTER TIPS:

1.   You don’t have to kill right away. Many new imposters will panic and kill someone in a bad area. Wait for the perfect moment.

2.   Build up trust with someone by be nearing them when a body is found. If you’re with red for the entire round, and two bodies are found, then red will assume there are two imposters other than you.

3.   Avoid venting if you’re new to the game. It takes time to hop in a vent, and time to hop out of it. New players get spotted venting all the time. Practice venting when the game is down to 5 or less players. It’s much safer then.

4.   Kill the smartest players. If someone in chat suspects you or your imposter friend, then this person should die next. If all the detectives are dead, then the criminals can always get away it.

5.   Don’t kill in open corridors at the start of the game. Odds are you’ll run into someone when you’re trying to escape. If you do get caught in a corridor, say you were done your tasks. That’s why you were running around.

6.   Sabotaging lights is an easy way to get some non-suspicious kills. Killing in the cafeteria when the lights are out makes it almost impossible for someone to find the body before the lights are fixed. By then you’ll be far away.

7.   If you can’t put any distance between yourself and the body, then report the body yourself. Tell people where you found it, and the last color player you saw. At least that puts them on the defensive.

8.   If you’re accused of self-reporting, just say something simple like, “lol, no.” Don’t go too overboard on defending yourself. People that go on and on about how innocent they are, are often lying. “I swear on my Grandmother…”

9.   The best tip for new imposters is… BLEND IN! That’s your job. To blend into the crewmates. Do crewmate stuff. Run up to task. Reposition yourself. Mess it up a few times. Complain in chat about how stupid the Simon Says game in reactor is. Complain how you’re never imposter. Stuff like that. Animals that blend in get eaten last.