Among Us Character Guide — All You Need To Know About the Among Us Characters

The characters in the space-themed social deduction game Among Us are the crew members of a spaceship or alien imposters disguised as crewmembers. Among is a 2018 multiplayer game based on teamwork and… betrayal, as its developer Innersloth states.

In Among Us game rounds consist of 4–10 players connected online or on LAN where the goal of the crewmates is to save the spaceship and guarantee a safe trip back home. However, the games include 1–3 alien imposters whose goal is to kill all other crew members.

The characters in Among Us look identical to one another with their uniform’s color being the only exception. They are humanoid creatures (humans & humanoid aliens), wearing full-body spacesuits and carrying small oxygen tanks that look like backpacks.

The little creatures are crewmembers of a spaceship invaded by a strange and deadly imposter. They’re humanoid creatures with a portly appearance, and they wear full-body spacesuits and small backpacks. The backpack’s purpose is unclear, though our best guess is that it’s an oxygen tank of some kind.

The crewmembers’ tasks vary depending on the map, including throwing out the spaceship’s garbage, performing a med scan on another crew member, fixing the spaceship’s shields, destroying asteroids, fixing electrical wiring, aligning the engine output, or diverting power from one mechanism to another and more.

If you want to jump into Among Us I recommend you read our ultimate Among Us guide.

The Among Us Characters

The Among Us characters don’t have any backstories, nor any names. The players can input their character’s names. Among Us also offers some character customization features beyond changing a character’s name.

You can change your character’s color of the space bodysuit or add cosmetics, including hats, skins, and pets in the lobby area before the start of a game.

The only role distinction in Among Us is that of the crew members (the main protagonists) and the imposter(s) (the villains).

List of Among Us Characters

The only way to 100% distinguishes the characters is the color of their spacesuits. Since there are 12 available spacesuit colors, there are 12 Among Us characters.

Innersloth plans to bring 15 player support with the next big Among Us update, and since 12 colors are not enough to cover 15 players we can expect that there will be at least 3 new characters/colors introduced to the game.

Here is the list of characters/colors available:

List of Among Us Maps

The Among Us game rounds can take place in one of the four available maps:

• The Skeld, released on June 15, 2018, which is the original game map.
• MIRA HQ, released on August 8, 2019.
• Polus, released on November 12, 2019.
• The Airship, released on March 31, 2021.

The playable characters are the same in all four maps.

FAQ

The simplistic design of Among Us has raised a ton of questions around the characters and the game’s lore.

Are Among Us characters humans or aliens?

The Among Us characters seem humanoid, but they are missing arms in all their appearances. Whether that is just part of aesthetics and fans read too much on every detail of the game or there is a story behind this design choice remains to be seen.

While they appear to be armless, a lot of the tasks each Among Us character can perform imply humanoid abilities and the use of hands.

Their hands are also not visible when not in use and only show up in certain scenarios, suspended in mid-air, and can even appear and disappear at will. Or you know, that’s just how animations work.

Personally, I believe these creatures are just humans or were meant to be, and they were designed this way for simplicity and cuteness (win-win). This is a question similar to whether Super Mario is a human or a dwarf, and I don’t believe the developers originally expected to dig that deep.

Many official Twitter posts from Among Us developers debase the theory that Crewmates are humans. Riding the buzz?

The game’s massive success, which propelled it to the mainstream stage, has posed Innersloth with a unique opportunity since 2020 to develop a story behind Among Us with some potential spins and twists. So let’s wait and see.

How do I change my Among Us character?

When you join an Among Us game in the pre-game lobby, you will find a laptop that allows you to change and customize your character’s appearance. You can select any color that is not used by someone else and decide which cosmetic items you want to dress your character with. That’s the only way to do change your character’s looks.

Can I always be the Impostor in Among Us?

No, you cannot really control this decision but there is a theory that you can increase the odds by constantly changing character colors until the game starts.

Can you make your own Among Us character?

Not put you can use the Among Us avatar creator website to create unique avatars to use in the game and beyond it.

Originally published at https://borderpolar.com on May 15, 2021.