Among Us

***Among Us*** is a social deduction game made by American game studio Innersloth. The game was inspired by the party game Mafia and the science-fiction horror movie *The Thing*. The version was released on November 10, 2022.

## Gameplay 
In *Among Us*, players play as one of four to fifteen players, and can either be a "Crewmate" or an "Impostor". Each game has a minimum of one Impostor, and a maximum of three Impostors in it. The number of Impostors can be changed at the start of the game.

Impostors can win by killing all the Crewmates or killing enough Crewmates so that there are more Impostors than Crewmates. They do not have tasks, but instead can pretend to do tasks. Impostors can pretend to complete these tasks to make it seem like they are not Impostors.

When a player is killed by the Impostor, or if they are voted out, they become a ghost.

### Mira HQ 
'''Mira HQ'* is the second map in the game. Unlike The Skeld, the map was released as paid content. It is set in a floor in a floating building that is the headquarters of the company MIRA.

### The Fungle 
*'The Fungle''' is the fifth map in the game, it was teased at the Summer Game Fest on June 10, 2021 and was released on October 20, 2023. It is set on a fungus infested planet where the ship has crash landed, much like Polus, the player has to accomplish tasks to survive, such as roasting marshmallows for food, and much more 'non-important' tasks, such as relaxing in the sun, however, in this map, the game gets harder as the impostors have more advantages, such as mix-matching the players' details and making them unable to recognize.

## Show 
Among Us is planned to have a show produced by CBS and the fathering Innersloth Production. Owen Dennis will serve as creator and executive producer on the project, being affiliated with CBS studios. in this show, most of the crew have been replaced by evil alien shapeshifters, with their intent to confuse the crewmates and sabotage the ship. Titmouse, the creators of Big Mouth and most famously Star Trek: Lower Decks will animate the show. along with Dennis, Forest Willard, Marcus Bromander, and others will also executive produce along with Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio, and Ben Kalina of Titmouse. So far, no streamer or network has been provided, however, the conversations are ongoing.

Among Us got a lot more popular in the summer of 2020, because a lot of Twitch streamers started streaming themselves playing it. There were so many new players causing servers to go down, even though they were designed for having multiple players.

### Popularity 
The game got popular in some countries like South Korea and Brazil before getting popular worldwide.

#### Continued popularity 
The game's popularity continued into the following months. The COVID-19 pandemic also raised its popularity. The game popularized the slang word "sus" (a shorter way of saying suspicious).

The game also had many internet memes that were inspired by the game. Some others words such as Sussy, Sussy  (baka meaning fool), "When the imposter is sus", and "Amogus" became popular memes. Memes about random or otherwise strange things such as trash cans, fire alarms, and backpacks looking like the Impostor, usually in red also became popular.

In October 2020, U.S. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar streamed the game with popular streamers like Pokimane and Hasan Piker. They did this to  people to vote in the 2020 United States presidential election. There were almost 700,000 people watching it at once on Twitch.

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