80 Fun Facts About Among Us

In which year was Among Us first released?

It launched on iOS and Android in June and reached Windows that November, then sat almost unnoticed for two years.

Among Us was inspired by which classic party game?

Co-founder Marcus Bromander had played it since he was a kid, and the original house-party version had a killer secretly drawing a finger across victims' necks.

Which science-fiction horror film is cited as an inspiration for the game?

John Carpenter's 1982 film about a shape-shifting alien hiding among an Antarctic crew is the other half of the game's DNA.

What is the name of the original spaceship map?

Bromander paused work on the studio's other game to draw it, and it was the only map in the game when it launched.

What is the maximum number of players a lobby can hold?

The cap was 10 for the game's first three years; 15-player lobbies arrived with the third-anniversary update in June 2021.

What is the highest number of Impostors a host can set for a round?

The count depends on the lobby size, and Impostors get a fake task list so they have something to pretend to do.

MIRA HQ, the second map, was released in which year?

It arrived on August 8 as a tightly packed headquarters roughly the size of the original ship, and originally had to be bought.

The third map, Polus, is set in what kind of location?

It added a Vitals monitor showing who is alive or dead, and its ejected players plunge off a cliff.

The Airship map is based on a location from which other game series?

It is the Toppat Clan's airship, and the map shipped with a Henry Stickmin cosmetic bundle and Geoff Keighley's face as a skin.

What is the name of the fifth map, a mushroom-jungle island released in October 2023?

Its backstory has the crew's ship destroyed by rapidly sprouting spores, forcing them to salvage the wreck on the island.

The fifth map was announced during which showcase in September 2023?

The map had first been teased as an unnamed 'Map 5' at Summer Game Fest more than two years earlier.

How many colours can players choose from in the wardrobe?

Only one player per lobby can wear each colour, and each has a hidden ID number used by the game's code.

Which colour joined the game in June 2021 alongside Coral, Tan, Gray, Maroon and Banana?

The six new colours arrived with the third-anniversary update that also raised the lobby cap.

What is Gray's colour ID number in the game's code?

Blue is ID 1, and a bugged colour once occupied every whole number above 11 until it was stripped from the code in 2021.

Which streamer is credited with first popularising the game among livestreamers in July 2020?

The wave that followed pulled in xQc, Pokimane, Shroud, Ninja, MrBeast, Disguised Toast and PewDiePie.

In October 2020, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez streamed the game to encourage voting alongside which congresswoman?

Pokimane and Hasan Piker were in the lobby too, and the broadcast drew close to 700,000 people watching at once.

In September 2020, why did the developers cancel the sequel Among Us 2?

They called the original's code 'outdated and not built to support adding so much new content', so the sequel's planned content, including the Airship, went into the first game.

At its late-September 2020 peak, how many people were playing at once?

The surge crushed what Forest Willard described as 'a totally free Amazon server, and it was terrible', forcing a crunch to keep the game up.

Which dictionary added the word 'sus' in September 2022?

The word predates the game, but the game made it mainstream along with spin-offs like 'sussy' and the misspelling 'amogus'.

In 2021, a Chicken McNugget from the BTS Meal that looked like a Crewmate sold on eBay for how much?

The seller threw in a Szechuan sauce after Xbox commented, and Guinness later listed it as the most expensive chicken nugget sold at online auction.

Which console got the game first, in December 2020?

It launched the same day it was announced in an Indie World showcase, and sold 3.2 million digital copies that month.

Which character's skin is exclusive to the Xbox versions?

The PlayStation versions got their own exclusive cosmetics based on a different Sony franchise.

The PlayStation versions include exclusive cosmetics based on which Sony franchise?

Both console versions launched on December 14, 2021, alongside a same-day arrival on Xbox Game Pass.

Which studio co-developed the December 2020 console port?

The port shipped with an exploit that let players reach the unreleased Airship map, patched two days later.

Players under what age are required to use Quickchat instead of free typing?

Quickchat, added in February 2021, replaces typing with preset phrases; older players may still type if they make an account.

In the Hide and Seek mode added in December 2022, how many Impostors hunt the Crewmates?

The seeker's identity is known to everyone, there are no meetings or ejections, and Crewmates can shorten the timer by doing tasks.

Which Crewmate role can travel through the vents?

Unlike Impostors, they can only stay inside for a limited time and cannot vent while communications are sabotaged.

Which role carries a portable Vitals monitor usable from anywhere on the map?

The monitor runs on a battery that recharges as the player completes tasks.

Which role can the first Crewmate to die receive, letting their ghost shield the living?

The role is not handed out at the start of the round, and its Protect ability replaces the ordinary ghost's Haunt.

Which Impostor role can temporarily morph into another player?

Depending on the settings the disguise leaves evidence behind, and the change is copied down to the target's pet.

Added in June 2024, which Impostor role can briefly turn invisible?

The same update introduced two new Crewmate roles as well.

Which Impostor role, added in September 2025, can dissolve bodies so no evidence is left?

It arrived together with the Detective, a Crewmate role that opens case files and interrogates players about where they were.

Which Crewmate role sets off an alert showing where they died when they are killed?

It is one of the more Impostor-hostile roles, since a kill can no longer be hidden in a quiet corner.

On Polus, in which room is the emergency button located?

The two earlier maps both put it in the Cafeteria, and the Airship moved it to a dedicated Meeting Room.

On the fifth map, the emergency button is replaced by what object?

It sits in the map's Meeting Room, keeping with the island's beach-and-mushroom theme.

On Polus, ejected players are shown falling from a cliff into what?

With Confirm Ejects on, an ejected Impostor gives a thumbs up as they sink, while an innocent Crewmate reaches out for help.

On the original ship map, how many seconds do Crewmates have to stop a Reactor Meltdown?

MIRA HQ gives 45 seconds and the fifth map 60, and it always takes two players on separate handprint scanners at once.

How do Crewmates resolve the Oxygen Depleted sabotage?

The code is written on a sticky note stuck to each keypad, and both notes show the same number.

In the Fix Wiring task, which colour is always the top wire on the right-hand side?

The left side is shuffled but the right always reads red, blue, yellow, magenta, and symbols were added in 2020 for colourblind players.

On MIRA HQ, what is the monitoring system that logs players walking over the hallway sensors?

It keeps the 20 most recent entries and is wiped clean while communications are sabotaged.

On the Vitals screen, which label marks a player who has been killed since the last meeting?

Living players read OK with a heartbeat, and disconnected or already-cleared players read D/C.

What is the longest kill cooldown a host can set, in seconds?

The shortest is 10 seconds, and the cooldown pauses whenever the Impostor is hiding in a vent.

Under what App ID was the game first published on mobile?

The name gave away its roots, and at first only 30 to 50 people were playing at any one time.

At least how many copies were claimed during the game's May 2021 Epic Games Store giveaway?

Average daily players jumped from about 350,000 to more than 2 million during the giveaway.

By November 2020, roughly what share of all players were on the free mobile version?

The 3% on the paid PC version still generated 64% of the game's gross revenue.

At The Game Awards 2020, the title won two trophies: one for mobile and one in which other category?

That same night the Airship map was announced on stage, and host Geoff Keighley's face became an in-game skin.

Which award show named it Favorite Video Game in March 2021?

The Golden Joysticks had already given it the Breakthrough Award in November 2020.

The studio behind the game is mainly based in which US state?

The studio worked part-time on unreleased games for years before going full-time indie once the game was out.

In which year was the developer Innersloth created?

It went full-time indie only once the game was out; the team jokes that it does not talk about 'Poop Week'.

What is co-founder Marcus Bromander's username on Newgrounds?

Under that name he made a popular series of stick-figure escape games, and he also composed the music for this one.

What is co-founder Forest Willard's main role at the studio?

He also handles the business side, and describes himself as the studio's 'friendly neighborhood recluse'.

The studio's founders first met while studying at which college?

Willard left a job at Microsoft before the pair set up the company together.

What is the name of the indie publishing label the studio revealed at Summer Game Fest 2024?

It invests in other indie games and recoups the money from sales, an idea sparked by the game Mars First Logistics.

Among Us VR launched in November 2022 on Steam and which headset?

It was co-developed with Schell Games and Robot Teddy and plays from a first-person view.

In 2025 the VR game was rebranded under what title, shared with a flat-screen PC version?

The non-VR PC version arrived on May 6, 2025, a few months after the rename.

The animated TV series was released on which streaming service in June 2026?

It appeared quietly, hours before it was meant to be announced at Summer Game Fest.

The animated series was created by Owen Dennis, best known for which show?

CBS Studios produces it, and its voice cast includes Randall Park, Elijah Wood and Patton Oswalt.

In the animated series, Elijah Wood voices which colour of Crewmate?

Yvette Nicole Brown is Orange, Ashley Johnson is Purple, and Wayne Knight plays Lime.

Which game was the first to collaborate with the studio, adding Crewmate-themed skins?

The two pandemic-era party games were often compared, and their developers publicly cheered each other on.

In August 2021, which game added an 'Impostors' mode that the studio criticised for giving no credit?

Bromander asked 'Is it really that hard to put 10% more effort into putting your own spin on it though?', and a proper crossover followed in 2022.

In the card game Balatro, Crewmates stand in for the face cards of which suit?

The Crewmate has also turned up as a playable character in Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble and in 35 themed levels of What the Golf?

The 'Glitch' pet handed out at a December 2020 streaming tournament is shaped like which platform's logo?

Pets follow their owner around and stay put at the spot where that owner died, which sharp players use as a clue.

What are the Mini Crewmate pets described as?

The pet copies its owner's colour, and even Impostors are allowed to bring one along.

Which glitch colour cannot legitimately be picked in the wardrobe and causes bugs when played as?

Its Submit Scan reports it weighing 132 pounds, unlike every real colour, and its username shows as ??? until the colour loads.

Development of the game began in which year?

The team playtested with eight friends and never once tried a full ten-player lobby before launch.

MIRA HQ and Polus originally cost how much each as an in-app purchase before going free in June 2020?

The price was cut to $2 in January 2020, and today the map packs only unlock the skins that were bundled with them.

Which game engine was Among Us built with?

The team playtested with eight friends and never once tried a full lobby of ten before release.

Roughly how many concurrent players did Among Us average shortly after its June 2018 launch?

Co-founder Marcus Bromander blamed the studio being 'really bad at marketing'; a small vocal fan base kept the project alive.

Why did the original release of Among Us have no audio at all?

Forest Willard later mixed sounds from various sound packs to build the effects for the Steam release in November 2018.

Which other Innersloth game did Bromander pause to build The Skeld?

Among Us was first meant to be a mobile-only local multiplayer game with a single map.

How frequently did Innersloth push updates during the game's slow-burn growth, by Willard's account?

Bromander said the studio's savings let it keep working on a game that was barely selling, until the player base snowballed.

What Metacritic score did the PC version of Among Us receive?

The Nintendo Switch port scored 79, with critics faulting its gamepad controls for tasks and its slow joystick typing.

Under what alias did a hacker spam Among Us lobbies in October 2020 to promote a YouTube channel?

He claimed the bot took six hours to build and hit 4.9 million players across 1.5 million games; Innersloth rushed out an emergency server update.

Characters play Among Us in which 2022 whodunit, whose detective got in-game cosmetics?

The Blanc cosmetics arrived with the Hide 'N Seek update in December 2022.

Which Triband indie game added 35 Among Us-themed levels in a collaboration with Innersloth?

Developer Triband followed up with a similar crossover for What the Car? in 2025.

In January 2025 the Crewmate became a playable DLC character in which game?

Crewmates have also cameoed in Astroneer, Fraymakers and Cosmonious High, and as stickers in A Hat in Time.

Fortnite's December 2020 community mode with Among Us-like mechanics was called what?

Epic's official 'Impostors' mode followed in August 2021, and it credited Innersloth as an inspiration only that October.

A simplified version of Among Us used in AI reinforcement-learning research is called what?

Researchers used it to show that AI agents can learn social behaviours like partnering and voting without natural-language communication.

Among Us Story: On Guard, announced in 2026, casts the player as whom?

The single-player narrative spinoff had a Steam Next Fest demo in June 2026 and is also bound for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2.

In the animated Among Us series, which actor voices Red?

Yvette Nicole Brown is Orange and Ashley Johnson Purple, while Oswalt plays White and Knight plays Lime.