Murder Your Friends for Fun!
Among Us has become a popular game for people to play as it’s cheap and fun.
Among Us has blown up over the past months. The game involves a group of people together in your choice of 3 maps: the skill, Mira HQ, and Polus. The little character walks around trying to do tasks to beat out the ‘imposter’ who tried to kill the other crewmates until they are the last man standing. The crewmates have the opportunity to catch the imposters by pressing the emergency button and voting someone out. You can play at the crewmate or imposter!
The game for pc is only $4.99 on Steam and free on mobile devices. You can customize your character for free by changing your color and hat in the lobby. But, add-ons such as mini pet characters and limited edition hats will cost extra.
A big reason as to why the game has become so popular is because many big YouTubers and Twitch Streamers are playing. Some of them are: Markiplier, Jacksepticey, Pokimane, Sykkuno, Corpsehusband and Pewdiepie. AOC even streamed herself playing the game to raise money for Coronavirus relief.
Now everyone is playing it! Students and teachers are joining in on the fun.
“My students were playing it one day at the end of the class period, of course, this was after we had finished our lesson and discussion for the day,” Mr. Hovel said. “And I honestly had to learn what was making them all so excited and laughing so hard.”
The developers are coming out with more updates for the game. The new update is supposed to have symbols on the characters for people who are colorblind, new character colors and a new map.
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Nicholas Hamrick | Oct 18, 2021 at 11:31 am
very good article about this game is shows how it got so big my youtubers and new features in future updates.
Riley Morris | Dec 2, 2020 at 8:45 pm
I feel like you had a really great explanation of the game. I really enjoy playing the game with my friends. I love how you also mentioned the symbols for people who are colorblind, I never knew that and I think thats really cool.
Emma Bua | Dec 2, 2020 at 8:09 pm
Very interesting article! I love how you went in depth explaining the game’s concept to start off the article.
Jack Middleton | Dec 2, 2020 at 8:00 pm
Great article, I find it very interesting that a game with such a simple concept has become so popular and has such a diverse audience. I also think it’s awesome that they thought to add symbols for colorblind people.
Suhailee M | Dec 2, 2020 at 4:39 pm
I love to play this game when I have free time and when I am bored. I like to mainly play with my friends and we would make some challenges for us to do so we would be entertain.
Jasmine Martinez | Dec 1, 2020 at 9:58 am
I absolutely love the game! I often play with friends on discord and Instagram. I Like how you recognized that even teachers are playing the game, and the fact that they are going to use symbols to hep people with color blindness.
Chloe Sackett | Dec 1, 2020 at 9:43 am
I loved how you explained how the game can be played and explained it to other very simply. I thought it was so cool that the caption you got didn’t come from one of the students that play the game, but from a teacher that allows her students to play it after class. The game is so much to play and it cool to see how the game became so popular because I just began playing when my friends did.
Sam Knox | Dec 1, 2020 at 9:42 am
I love this article and how informative it is. I personally play the game but i had no idea that they were going to make it inclusive to colorblind people and I never thought how they aren’t able to play.
Aidan G Capps | Dec 1, 2020 at 9:41 am
The title of the article is amazing at pulling in somebody who is just browsing the site, but at the same time is a perfect description of the game. There could have been more information in the article about how Among Us 2 was planned but the developers decided to just try to update the original. Overall this is an amazing article that keeps the reader’s attention the whole way through.
Andrea Otero Tirado | Dec 1, 2020 at 8:06 am
What drew me to this article was for sure the title. she was straight up telling what is in some way not being violent. Then she had a good attitude typing it and hyping up what the game is about.
Tj | Dec 1, 2020 at 8:02 am
Among us is a really fantastic game for only being 5$, I have the PC version and its really exciting when everyone is in the detective mood trying to find out who the killer is. I’ve only played it in class one time in Mr. Maier class and it was a blast after he joined in and didn’t know what he was doing.
Solana Rangel | Dec 1, 2020 at 8:00 am
I feel like with this story you went into great detail on how to play the basic game for newcomers. You also actually explained why it became big in the first place which I feel like people should know about. The only thing I would add here is more of the new things coming in the update to get more people interested in the game, but other than that great article!
Toby Melvin | Dec 1, 2020 at 7:54 am
The tone of this article seemed very upbeat which I enjoyed, I really liked the headline of the article because how attention grabbing it was, I liked that you brought personal experience in, and I enjoyed how informative it was.