Among Us

 Switch
User Score
6.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 34 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 6 out of 34
  3. Negative: 8 out of 34

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  1. cnrelax
    Mar 21, 2021
    5
    I just bought this game. There are many glitches and issues with the game. Firstly is the accessing or navigating the lobby is via touchscreen and there are none of the additional options seen in other platforms. Often games end on a black screen but with the sound still running like the game is still playing. So many matches are not properly concluded.
    Where there are conclusions to the    I just bought this game. There are many glitches and issues with the game. Firstly is the accessing or navigating the lobby is via touchscreen and there are none of the additional options seen in other platforms. Often games end on a black screen but with the sound still running like the game is still playing. So many matches are not properly concluded.
    Where there are conclusions to the game these are not satisfying, especially as matches are affected by frequent departures of other players which can accelerate the game. Having three imposters in a group of ten seems badly designed as each round of voting can only result in the removal of one player and in-between that there are three players that can kill three others, only five need to be killed for the team to be outweighed.

    I had heard of among us and was really fascinated by it, I had high expectations, but it seems more like the limited scope/quality seen in online team work free games like Lost Reavers. There is no sense of great ambition, although some updates/events are announced.
    Maybe blaming my own high expectations is a way of excusing the real disappointment I feel about this game and the lost opportunities and potential it could have for team play.

    Discussing and voting can often take too long and I am sure that there could be a better implementation to keep things flowing. Chat is not very intuitive and there can be frustrations in joining matches and then finding out that the room host is AFK or having some kind of attention-seeking strop.

    Lastly, other aspects of the game are missing, such as the sense of progression in the game, so that the often repetitive rounds actually count for something other than a bunch of randoms with a short lived meaningless experience.

    It is not a fully realised game but its existence may inspire the next full step taken to make a game that takes the best parts of it forward.    … Expand
  2. Jdjdjdhbd
    Dec 27, 2020
    0
    The game keeps kicking me out saying I don’t have the latest version, but I do. It also takes forever to find a game. And it doesn’t tell you if a game is full before you click on it and then it takes you to the main screen and you have to redo finding one. When you do get in you’re stuck in the little spaceship for way to long while other people try to find the game. And then you canThe game keeps kicking me out saying I don’t have the latest version, but I do. It also takes forever to find a game. And it doesn’t tell you if a game is full before you click on it and then it takes you to the main screen and you have to redo finding one. When you do get in you’re stuck in the little spaceship for way to long while other people try to find the game. And then you can get kicked out still for “not having the most recent version”. Paying $5 for this game is too much. Plus you have to have Nintendo Switch Online which is dumb. The people are rude on it as well. Getting into the game and then demanding you switch the parameters. This game is terrible.… Expand
  3. Polibmielipsy
    Aug 8, 2021
    0
    Don't buy it. I bought the Nintendo Switch version. The first time I started it, it created an account that I can't delete or change. I accidentally ticked the wrong birth year and online play is over. The birthdate cannot be changed, the game has activated parental control and requires email verification and my credit card number in order to charge $0.30. Are you kidding me? What's worse,Don't buy it. I bought the Nintendo Switch version. The first time I started it, it created an account that I can't delete or change. I accidentally ticked the wrong birth year and online play is over. The birthdate cannot be changed, the game has activated parental control and requires email verification and my credit card number in order to charge $0.30. Are you kidding me? What's worse, the account can't be deleted even after deleting the game and all save data, apparently it's linked with a nintendo account. Don't buy it.… Expand
  4. tarant75
    Dec 16, 2020
    3
    The game gets boring very quickly. The tasks are repetitive. Most of the time you "discuss". Actually, you exchange mini-words and vote. So most of the time you are waiting. Be it during votes or in the booth before the game starts. The game is massively overhyped!
  5. Vampiir
    Jun 1, 2021
    0
    Latest update screwed up the game with wheel chat. Sadly it's unplayable now, just got the game on PC thought that maybe they only ruined mobile game but alas they did same with PC version. But they have a "good" reason do get to your data now, with the account system.
  6. HipMahoko
    Feb 7, 2021
    2
    So many people are hyped for a casual mobile game, which gameplay is repetive and bores quickly. I may understand that the developers tried and even cried with happiness when their game received the title of "best mobile game of 2020", even though it was released in 2018. But still, this game is overrated, and it became popular because the streamers promoted it. And now we have a terribleSo many people are hyped for a casual mobile game, which gameplay is repetive and bores quickly. I may understand that the developers tried and even cried with happiness when their game received the title of "best mobile game of 2020", even though it was released in 2018. But still, this game is overrated, and it became popular because the streamers promoted it. And now we have a terrible community, consisting of toxic kids and marginals.

    Guys, I love indie games. By indie games I mean good ones like Hades or Forgotten Anne. Not this meme material **** And many people are worshipping Among Us as the best game of 2020. I played this game for a few days and it was dissapointment. There are so many cheaters here. The whole gameplay is nothing but just a guess game. I expected a good detective story, but instead we got oversimplified version of Werewolf.    … Expand
  7. Huntriss
    Dec 29, 2020
    9
    Fantastic game. It's a lot of fun. Arguably the best way to play regarding the controls. Best experience with voice chat involved. Otherwise, can be a bit difficult to play with the keyboard.
  8. greninjaX
    Sep 13, 2021
    9
    red sus! i saw red vent! vote red out! he faked keys! i saw him kill on cams! vote him out now! vote him now or we'll lose!

    Red was not an imposter
  9. bohalaa
    Dec 24, 2020
    8
    funny game and excited if you play it with friends or family, but need more stuff to be complete game. i will give it a 8 as much i enjoyed, can't wait for among us 2
  10. Vikas1991
    May 1, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Among us on every console is super , even the mobile version is good , highly recommend this game.… Expand
  11. JeanLouRate
    May 18, 2021
    8
    A really cool game at a low price.
    I like to play with my friend, we laught and have fun together.
  12. Zski
    Jul 24, 2021
    7
    Fun game that works great on the Switch. It’s no better or worse than the mobile or PC versions except that the text is a little harder to enter. The game is perfectly priced because while it’s a great time when you’re in a good lobby, it’s really light on content. Without friends, it won’t hold up very long, but at $5, it’s worth checking out.
  13. BigJimmy
    Jun 26, 2021
    10
    When the imposter is sus, and they come out to you, very emotionally. It's okay to be sus, y'all.

    The last time you clicked on a minecraft video was probably like 5 years ago. Don’t worry, i’m in that camp too. I’d rather watch paint dry than watch another hunger games lets play. My name is Schlatt, and today we’re gonna talk a bit about how a stupidly simplistic sandbox became my    When the imposter is sus, and they come out to you, very emotionally. It's okay to be sus, y'all.

    The last time you clicked on a minecraft video was probably like 5 years ago. Don’t worry, i’m in that camp too. I’d rather watch paint dry than watch another hunger games lets play. My name is Schlatt, and today we’re gonna talk a bit about how a stupidly simplistic sandbox became my favorite game. Where I think it took a turn in the wrong direction, and why even after all the new changes, even after how god-awful the community’s become, and even after...mine...coins? There’s still a soft spot for it in my heart. Minecraft came out for the Xbox 360 on May 9th, 2012. Coincidentally, that was the day that 12 year old Schlatt found his new favorite game. Remember Bionicles? Yeah I had more than you did, so naturally a game where you could build whatever you wanted was right up my alley. And the 360 release of minecraft was a barebones version of an already barebones game. It was charmingly simple, dropping you into a world with no real instructions or goals. There wasn’t much to do. But things you could do, the game nailed. Combat was straightforward and fun, especially with a group of friends. Building stuff was almost therapeutic, and the quiet times spent mining in preparation for what was to come. That space to organize your thoughts and plan out your next move, all the while being serenaded by those faint piano melodies in the background. That was the icing on the cake. I was in love with this game. It let me be creative, adventurous. You could do with everything around you what you pleased. And to this day some of my fondest gaming memories have come from open world games like that. Day., GTA4, Sakura Beach… W-wait Every day i’d hop off the bus, throw myself on the couch and log back in. There was only one world I played on. I wanted to be the only of my friends that played on two, so I crammed as much cool **** on there as I could. I built minecarts, Mob traps, I exploited this duplication glitch and built a diamond house out of diamond blocks. Listen. I was a perfectionist. And this world had to be perfect. Or else all I would have been doing was wasting away in front of a TV every day. But even after the countless hours I pumped into minecraft, I was still pretty ass at building. So I started watching other people play to figure out what I could do or build to make my world a little better. And as a result, I found an entire new avenue of the game. I was never a huge fan of lets plays. My introduction to the genre was...well…loud. Even back then was a screaming contest. And even though I was twelve, that kind of stuff just didn’t sit well with me. I felt myself gravitating towards more reserved and laid back youtubers like Monkeyfarm, who in the let’s play space was a breath of fresh air. He took a very methodical approach to building, and his videos were more about that process rather than about him. And as I watched more videos, I eventually found my way into modded Minecraft through these two guys, Sips_ and Shin_. They were the quieter side of the Yogscast, and even though they both sucked at the game, it was hilariously fun to watch them dick around and trying to figure things out. These boys were the perfect lets play combo, and their SipsCo series where they automate the process of dirt collection is single handedly responsible for my foray into Tekkit. Tekkit was a different beast altogether. A collection of technology-oriented mods that looked like minecraft, but offered an entirely new way to play the game. If you didn’t like mining, you didn’t have to do it. You could build one of these things and it’d dig for you. If you didn’t like building, well guess what. Anything you wanted to do could be done with the right machines, and it led to some pretty incredible stuff. Tekkit’s charm wore off quickly, though. After the sipsco series ended, I found myself getting bored with mods, and gradually, I made my way back to Vanilla. But the charm was gone here, too. I tried to put my feelings into words on the Minecraft forum, and I left an extremely controversial post. I feel like minecraft is becoming too complicated. I liked it the old way better. Now there’s weighted pressure plates and these sun things. I still don’t know how to use anything from that redstone update. Why is everything becoming more complex? I thought minecraft was popular for it’s sipmlicity (or at least that’s why I liked it). I think I summed it up pretty well. I had stopped playing with mods because I preferred that simplicity - and with each new update and each round if new items and gameplay mechanics added to the base game, I felt like minecraft wasn’t minecraft anymore. So that begs the question… what is Minecraft? For me, minecraft is not knowing how to play Minecraft. It’s generating that first world and thinking to yourself “what next?”. It’s standing at the the foo    … Expand
  14. IamSquid
    Jan 2, 2022
    7
    I like this game a lot, but the more that got added to it, the more problems it had. The addition of tasks the required motion controls and made it unplayable (I have tremors).
  15. cheaterssuck
    Sep 19, 2021
    0
    Innersloth are the most neglectful, laziest game developers ever. Among Us is still a glitchy mess, even several years after its release. They have made millions of dollars from the game and could easily reinvest some of that money into hiring programmers to fix glitches, but they haven't. They don't care about their customers at all.

    Among Us is also plagued by cheaters, and Innersloth    Innersloth are the most neglectful, laziest game developers ever. Among Us is still a glitchy mess, even several years after its release. They have made millions of dollars from the game and could easily reinvest some of that money into hiring programmers to fix glitches, but they haven't. They don't care about their customers at all.

    Among Us is also plagued by cheaters, and Innersloth doesn't actually do anything about it. I know because I have "reported users for hacking/cheating" for blatantly obvious cheating only to find those same exact users still using the game the next day. Their website claims "bad faith reports… will result in enforcement of consequences," which is their excuse for ignoring this problem. They haven't banned me for "bad faith reports" and they haven't banned cheaters for cheating, by the way. That's just their excuse for doing nothing.

    I sent an email to them via the Contact Us link on their website about this, and they haven't replied. I bet this review will be ignored by them too, but you should heed my warning. Innersloth and Among Us are terrible. Wait until another game developer makes a game like Among Us but without glitches and without cheaters. Then buy that game instead.    … Expand
  16. Massraider
    Aug 23, 2023
    8
    The Legend. This game is interesting for its idea and multiplayer. Cool detective!

Awards & Rankings

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#73 Best Switch Game of 2020
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#73 Most Discussed Switch Game of 2020

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Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Nintendo Force Magazine
    May 17, 2021
    85
    We needed an experience like Among Us to cope with the events of the previous year, and its emergent possibilities ensure that we'll continue to enjoy it for many months or years to come. [Issue #51 – March/April 2021, p. 26]
  2. 4P.de
    Feb 9, 2021
    68
    If you want nothing more than a party snack, this is it – especially with the cross-platform gaming. But in the long run it lacks variety.
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  3. God is a Geek
    Dec 24, 2020
    85
    Among Us is a superb multiplayer game that is great on Nintendo Switch. It's easy to pick up, but difficult to put down.
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