Among Us Among Us [c] is an online multiplayer social deduction game developed and published by American game studio Innersloth. It was released on iOS and Android devices in June 2018 and on Windows in November 2018, featuring cross-platform play between these platforms. [4] The game was also ported for the Nintendo Switch in December 2020, and has planned releases for the Xbox One and Xbox Series X and Series S in 2021. The game was inspired by the party game Mafia and the science fiction horror film The Thing , and since the release of its first map, The Skeld, other maps were added into the game. A fourth map, "The Airship", was released in March 2021. The game takes place in a space-themed setting, in which players each take on one of two roles, most being Crewmates, and a predetermined number being Impostors. [d] The goal of the Crewmates ...