The secret free game in the Epic Store has been revealed: It’s Among Us, the cute looking but snappy designed multiplayer game about deception and murder on a space station.
You have a week: The offer is valid from May 27th to June 3rd, 2021 at 5 p.m. each time. If you buy during this period, you can keep Among Us permanently.
What is Among Us about?
Among Us doesn’t really need an introduction, but if you’ve spent the last few years in space, we’ll quickly explain the gameplay to you.
Among Us plays in one of several levels, sometimes a space station and sometimes a planetary outpost. A group of four to ten players act as astronauts who have to cope with various tasks.
The look of the game is a stylized comic, you control your astronaut from a bird’s eye view. This is what Among Us looks like:
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Now comes the snappy twist: there are one or more players Impostorwho have only one goal in mind: to bring all unsuspecting players around the corner without being exposed. To do this, they simulate work, sabotage systems to create distractions or move nimbly through the ventilation shafts.
The “clean” players can Call emergency meetings. Then you discuss who the impostor could be via text chat or microphone. At the end of this phase, all players vote on who should be thrown out of the airlock. If the traitor has messed up and has been observed during a murder, for example, the vote is often unequivocal.
Does the imposter have against it well deceived and secretly killed – and ideally diverted attention from yourself in conversation with others – sometimes one after the other players spin innocently into the vastness of space.
In the end, either the group of clean players wins if the impostor drifts into space – or the traitor if he survives to the end.
Who is Among Us for?
If you’re having fun psychological tricks, deception and thrills Among Us is definitely worth a look. We even recommend the game to any gamer who is passionate about the medium. Because behind the cute comic look of Among Us is well thought-out game design.
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With Among Us you get a lot of excitement, glee, exciting moments and lots of laughter at Epic. Especially with a group of friends puts Among Us in a good mood. So for free you won’t do anything wrong with the indie hit.
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