Among us comes to Xbox Game Pass for Xbox One and Xbox Series X in 2021, Microsoft announced Thursday, and is now available in the Xbox Game Pass game library for PC subscribers.
Strange social deduction game, SF – the structure resembles the paranoia faced by Wilford Brimley, Kurt Russell and others in John Carpenter’s working – released on Nintendo Switch earlier this week. It launched in 2018 on mobile platforms and then on the Windows PC, but has become a hit this year with home-locked players, Twitch streamers and their viewers. It is one of the top 10 Polygon games of 2020.
Among us is a multiplayer game for four to 10 players, which puts a group of impostors against the crew of a spaceship. They all look the same. The impostors try to kill their crewmates and sabotage the ship. The crew must work together to eliminate the impostors.
The game has become so popular in the quarantined lifestyle that the developers at Innersloth have put the development of a sequel on hold, to avoid splitting the player base. Among his many notable Twitch streams this year was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York, who used the game as a tool to inform and educate voters.
InnerSloth announced last week at The Game Awards 2020 that Among us“The new airship map will be coming soon. Nintendo Switch players have already figured out a way to access it early.