Q&A for How to Play Among Us

I do not recommend this, as this can and does get you banned, especially if you are caught doing activity you would otherwise not be able to do (changing roles, doing tasks as Impostor, coming back after being voted off/killed, etc.).

You can try to make up a quick lie, or just say you were with someone else. (Ex: I didn't kill orange, I was with black.)

Bad words are censored to only those users who have Censor Chat turned on in the settings.

The host has no advantage over the other players, so I don't recommend trying to get killed by those impostors to win.

No. To win by tasks, all crewmates must complete their tasks, including ghosts, engineers, scientists, and guardian angels.

Direct your character to the main room that everyone starts out in and press the large, red button in the middle of the table that is in that room. The emergency meeting will be activated after that. But be careful when hosting an emergency meeting! An impostor might follow and kill you if you aren't fast enough. People might also consider you sus if you don't give your reasons for the meeting right away or don't have enough proof.

The engineer can vent because that was the ability assigned to this character. Since the other roles have a specific ability given to them, the engineer also has a specific ability to define it from other roles.

Complete your tasks as you should, but try not to take too long to complete the tasks. If your fellow crew mates are watching you do tasks, they should notice the task bar go up and conclude that you're a crew mate as a result. Avoid standing on vents, passing by dead bodies inadvertently, or not doing any tasks. All of these can place a huge target on your back.

As the guardian angel (the first crewmate killed), you press "Protect". That is the only known way.

Because then you help your enemies/the crewmates. That will force them to vote out your impostor buddy, and the game will get harder!

Not always, your roles do not depend on your in-game color. Sometimes purple could be the impostor, or green, or black, or blue, and so on!

The game chooses who the imposter is at random. So you cannot make yourself this.

You can tell people that you are an engineer. While not all people could believe you, this is the only way out if people saw you vent. Or you can act casual as if you didn't care about players seeing you vent - not what an impostor would do. (Only, make sure this doesn't look like an impostor trolling.)

You need to have the engineer role, at which point you can vent. Be careful though. While crewmates now do not call out venting as much because of the update, the Impostor(s) can call you out to get you off.

By enabling the "confirm ejects" option, the game will say "User was/was not an Impostor". Having this option off will not display this message and will instead show "User was ejected", making it so that the remaining players do not know whether the ejected player was truly an Impostor.

To play on Nintendo Switch, you need an active Nintendo Switch online subscription.

No. If you are a ghost, you have either already been killed, voted out, or left the game. Impostors cannot kill or even see ghosts unless they are ghosts also.

Yes, the creator is in charge. But if the creator doesn’t like the player or does not want them in their server, they may kick or ban them. So, the creator is kicking or banning players. When the game starts, every player will be able to kick players off when an emergency or dead body report happens.

On the bottom right corner, it may say “wikiHow left the game.” , “wikiHow was banned by player172” or “wikiHow was kicked by player172”.

No, your avatar's color won't affect anything. The colors are just there for customization and to help tell the difference between players.

The vents are all spread out in the maps. And they vary in location in each map, as well.

You can't kill crewmates, but you can still sabotage! Take advantage of that when you can; you might end up gaining a quicker victory if the crewmates don't fix O2 or the reactor in time.

A vent kill is when the impostor kills a crewmate and immediately uses the vents to exit the room afterward. This can prevent them from being seen if another crewmate enters the room after the kill occurs.

No, only imposters. As a crewmate you are trying to find out who is killing the other crewmates by voting. Obviously, the imposters will try and pretend that they aren't the ones killing, and they are part of your team.

As of the November 2021 update, you can vent as crewmate, provided the crewmate has the engineer role.

It is likely because that is just how the map was made. It is all right though; as long as you don't get caught jumping in or out of a vent as the imposter, you'll be fine.

Definitely! It doesn't take up too much space and it doesn't run down your battery either.

The recommended map is the Skeld, it is the first map and is easy to understand.