Among Us

Released 15 June 2018 Developer Innersloth

Social deduction
Party
Switch
PS5
PS4
Xbox Series
Xbox One
PC
iOS
Android

A party game for four to fifteen players in which a crew tries to finish tasks on a spaceship while one or more hidden impostors sabotage things and eliminate crewmates. Between rounds everyone discusses who seems suspicious and votes to eject someone, so the game is mostly talking, bluffing and spotting lies. Rounds are short and cartoon-styled, and it is popular with children and teenagers playing with friends.

Money health CautionBuilt to push spending

Addictive design Mild2 of 5 — counts the hooks designed in

Average price A$6.84average of 4 store prices

Spending ceiling No ceilingRepeat purchases, no limit

Australian rating ACBPGMild themes and violence

How it makes money

Caution: built to push spending

On PC and consoles Among Us is a one-off purchase: A$7.49 on Steam, A$7.45 on Xbox, A$6.45 on Switch and A$5.95 on PlayStation. On iPhone and Android it is free with ads, and 'Remove All Ads' costs A$2.99 on the App Store. Every version also sells cosmetic items (skins, hats, pets and 'Cosmicubes') for Stars, a currency bought with real money (30 Stars is A$4.99 on the App Store), or for Beans, which are earned by playing. The extras are cosmetic only, and two maps that were once paid add-ons were made free in 2020.

How you pay

Techniques it uses to keep you paying or playing

Used to, but no longer

Our verdict

Caution · Built to push spending

Commonly designed to make you spend or play more than you would choose: pressure, friction you can pay to remove, or prices you can't easily see.

Set by the worst badge central to how it makes money (minor extras count only if rated Caution or worse). How we rate

Addictive design

Mild

Mild: daily challenges and Cosmicube progress hand out Beans, XP and Pods for playing, but the real draw is quick rounds with friends. There are no energy limits or wait timers.

Not a medical measure. It counts the engagement hooks deliberately built into the game — timers, streaks, limited-time pressure, paid randomness. How it's scored

Spending ceiling

No ceiling: the game sells repeatable purchases with no upper limit.

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What it costs

Price: A$6.84

What	Where	Price	Checked
Standard Regular price; on sale at A$4.49 (40% off) when checked	Steam (AU) · PC ↗	A$7.49	Oct 2026
Standard	Microsoft Store (AU) · Xbox Series ↗	A$7.45	Oct 2026
Standard Regular price; on sale at A$3.87 until 5 November 2026	Nintendo eShop (AU) · Switch ↗	A$6.45	Oct 2026
Standard One purchase covers PS4 and PS5	PlayStation Store (AU) · PS5 ↗	A$5.95	Oct 2026
30 Star Bundle Listed among the app's top in-app purchases; larger and smaller Star packs exist	Apple App Store (AU) · iOS ↗	A$4.99	Oct 2026
Remove All Ads Removes ads from the free mobile version	Apple App Store (AU) · iOS ↗	A$2.99	Oct 2026

Store prices change often and sales are common; we record the regular price on the date shown.

Reviews from across the web

What the critics said

80OpenCritic
Strong 85Metacritic
Metascore

Very PositiveSteam
player reviews

8.5/ 10

Game Informer ↗

Liana Ruppert · 29 September 2020 · PC

Enjoyed the chaotic, meme-friendly social deduction and the lack of grind, while finding the visuals basic and the gameplay narrow.
8/ 10

Nintendo Life ↗

PJ O'Reilly · 21 December 2020 · Switch

Called the Switch version a great, cheap and tense game with cross-play, but found typed chat clumsy and noted the missing cosmetics at launch.
7/ 10

Push Square ↗

Sammy Barker · 24 December 2021 · PS5 · Good

Found it an inventive party game that works best with friends, with crossplay and a low price in its favour and toxic public lobbies and awkward controls against it.

Scores belong to the outlets that published them; follow the links to read the full reviews. Summaries are ours.

Age ratings

Classification

ACBPG

Australian Classification · record ↗

Mild themes and violence

Interactive elements: Online interactivity, in-game purchases

ESRBE10+

ESRB (North America) · record ↗

Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood

Interactive elements: Users Interact, In-Game Purchases

PEGI7

PEGI (Europe) · record ↗

Violence

Interactive elements: Digital purchases

Age ratings judge content (violence, language, gambling themes). They say little about how hard a game pushes spending — that's what the badges above are for. About rating boards

Safety & parental controls

Who can talk to your child, and what can they buy?

Text chat
Players can interact with strangers
No user-made content
Account: not recorded

Public games match your child with strangers; a private lobby with a room code keeps a game to people they know. Accounts for children are put in Quick Chat (fixed phrases only) unless a parent allows more through Innersloth's parent portal, run by Kids Web Services; players 13 and over can use Free Chat, which has a Censor Chat word filter. The age is self-declared when the account is made, so check it was entered correctly. There is no voice chat in the game itself, though many groups use Discord or a console party chat alongside it.

In-game parental controls