Rules/play variants for Among Us?
December 9, 2020 7:45 AM Subscribe
My friends and I have been playing Among Us at least once a week, and to keep things interesting we like to play with variants on the rules. Please -- give us to your Among Us hacks!
A couple of examples we've had fun with recently:
-- A "slasher" variant where mics stay on for everyone the entire time, and the crew races to complete their (smaller than usual) list of tasks while a killer runs around openly murdering the crew, often while cackling. No reporting bodies, no meetings, ghosts are welcome to shout status reports as to the current location of the killer.
-- Themed/confusing names which make it harder to keep track of who people are. (everyone's name involves "butts," everyone is named who/me/somebody/etc, everyone is named a color that is not the color of their character, it gets extremely silly)
A couple of examples we've had fun with recently:
-- A "slasher" variant where mics stay on for everyone the entire time, and the crew races to complete their (smaller than usual) list of tasks while a killer runs around openly murdering the crew, often while cackling. No reporting bodies, no meetings, ghosts are welcome to shout status reports as to the current location of the killer.
-- Themed/confusing names which make it harder to keep track of who people are. (everyone's name involves "butts," everyone is named who/me/somebody/etc, everyone is named a color that is not the color of their character, it gets extremely silly)
I also came in to say Hide & Seek. It's super fun. Imposter calls themselves out immediately, then everyone runs. No one is allowed to report bodies or call emergency meetings. If you do, you get booted. I usually find myself in games where the norm is to pick a spot, chill there, and only run if the seeker/imposter enters your line of sight.
posted by Kitchen Witch at 8:52 AM on December 9, 2020
posted by Kitchen Witch at 8:52 AM on December 9, 2020
Another themed-naming variant: everyone's character name is the name of a different person who is currently playing the game with them.
I have also seen a hilarious stream of "everyone sets their name to a nonsense string that is visually indistinguishable from everyone else's name (alternating capital I and lowercase L are popular, I think?), removes all hats or other identifiers, and then sets their computer display to black and white." This results in the impostors being able to kill in public with relative impunity (because mostly no one can tell who they are) and people being unable to determine who they are voting for and occasionally accidentally voting themselves off.
posted by sineala at 9:05 AM on December 9, 2020 [4 favorites]
I have also seen a hilarious stream of "everyone sets their name to a nonsense string that is visually indistinguishable from everyone else's name (alternating capital I and lowercase L are popular, I think?), removes all hats or other identifiers, and then sets their computer display to black and white." This results in the impostors being able to kill in public with relative impunity (because mostly no one can tell who they are) and people being unable to determine who they are voting for and occasionally accidentally voting themselves off.
posted by sineala at 9:05 AM on December 9, 2020 [4 favorites]
Another themed-naming variant: everyone's character name is the name of a different person who is currently playing the game with them.
This is dangerous/hilarious depending on how drunk your team is . . . i hear from friends.
posted by Exceptional_Hubris at 9:58 AM on December 9, 2020
This is dangerous/hilarious depending on how drunk your team is . . . i hear from friends.
posted by Exceptional_Hubris at 9:58 AM on December 9, 2020
I've seen it played where people name themselves things like "Me", "Myself", "I", "This","Who","That",etc where talking it out gets ridiculous
posted by gzimmer at 12:43 PM on December 9, 2020
posted by gzimmer at 12:43 PM on December 9, 2020
If you and your friends are willing to "mod" the game, there's an unofficial server that you can play on that has custom game modes like zombie mode, twins mode, vent teleporter (anyone who walks over a vent can "teleport" to another random vent) and more!
posted by QueenHawkeye at 2:35 PM on December 9, 2020
posted by QueenHawkeye at 2:35 PM on December 9, 2020
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