Among Us with friends sounds like a nice night. It was not a nice night. Four of us from The Game Show played it live, and by the end one of us was a proven liar. It was Logan. It was almost always Logan.
If you missed it the first time around, Among Us is a social deduction game from Innersloth. It came out in 2018 and almost nobody noticed until 2020, when everyone was stuck at home and started playing it at once. You’re a crew on a spaceship doing chores. Fix the wiring. Empty the trash. One or two of you are impostors, and their only job is to kill everyone else without getting caught. When a body turns up, the whole group stops and argues about who did it. Then you vote somebody out the airlock. Sometimes it’s even the right person.
Why Among Us with friends, and why now
On Halloween we played Phasmophobia together. That was the first time since 2002 that the group played a game on the show instead of talking about one. The crew wiped three times and it was one of the most fun episodes we’ve done.
Right after, Max sent us a list of games to try next. Among Us was on it. We picked it first because all it needs is a lobby code and a willingness to lie.
It also fits this group. Some of us have known each other for more than twenty years. We know who goes quiet when they’re guilty and who talks too much. That should make the game easy. I think it makes it worse.
How it works on the show
Most weeks The Game Show is a panel talking about old games. Tonight nobody gets to sit back. We’re all in one lobby with the stream watching.
I’m playing too. In Phasmophobia I hosted from the van and read the chat while everyone else got hunted. This time I can be murdered like anyone else.
Chat sees everything. If you watch live, you’ll know who the impostor is before we do. Please don’t tell us. Okay, tell us a little.
What happened
The game picked Logan as the impostor in round one. Then it picked him again. By the end of the night we were joking that we should call a meeting the second each round started and vote him out without looking. We would have won more that way.
Logan is very good at this. He has played with big, ruthless groups and it shows. He never gives anything away. At one point his internet dropped in the middle of a round, and that is the only reason the rest of us won that one.
Darria had never played Among Us before. She spent the first few rounds asking what the emergency button did. An hour later she was winning as the impostor and we were all afraid to be alone in a room with her.
Jess waited more than fifty minutes to be the impostor. When she finally got it, she won. Then she won two more.
I was the impostor three times and got caught or beaten all three. The first time I didn’t know how to sabotage anything. I just walked around hoping to run into somebody. Jess says she can tell when I’m lying. She’s right.
We played all five maps: The Skeld, Polus, The Fungle, The Airship, and Mira HQ. Polus was the favorite. The Fungle has a zipline, which is the best thing in the game.
The crew
Break: host, and the worst liar on the panel.
Jess: patient, then dangerous.
Darria: first time playing, learned fast.
Logan: the impostor. Probably right now.
Where to watch
The full episode is on the BreakmanX YouTube channel. The Game Show has been running since 2002, which makes it one of the oldest gaming podcasts still going. This is Season 13. We’re live every Wednesday at 9 PM Central.
If you want something with less betrayal, the Pokémon Crystal series with Jess runs Mondays at 6 PM Central. We’re five badges in and stuck outside a Steel gym.
Among Us is on just about everything. Here’s the Among Us Steam page. You need at least four people. Pick ones you trust. You won’t for long.
We’re thinking about making game night a monthly thing. Got a game we should play next? Leave it in the YouTube comments.
