Among Us on now.gg - The Best Tips and Tricks for Playing and Winning as Crewmates

Among Us has, for the past few years, entertained gamers from around the world with its simple yet engaging asymmetrical survival gameplay. The folks at InnerSloth have taken a formula as basic as “cat and mouse” and applied it to an online multiplayer environment. The result is a game where a large number of players with the Crewmate role must go about their business trying to complete a series of easy tasks, while a few (usually one or two) Impostors have to go around sneakily killing the others while keeping their identity a secret.

The beauty of Among Us is in the game’s simplicity, as it’s a game that isn’t great for the gameplay alone, but rather from the interactions between the different players, as Crewmates run around trying to complete tasks, while suspiciously eyeing everyone around them, and Impostors skulk about, sneaking through vents, and trying to inconspicuously murder the other team. 

It’s exactly the simplest games like Among Us that are the best to play on the now.gg mobile cloud, particularly since our platform gives you instant access for free with a single click, on any device, and with no downloads or installs required—simply click on the link and start playing directly on your browser. And considering that each match in Among Us lasts for, at most, 10 minutes, now.gg is an easy and fast way of enjoying a few matches of this game whenever you have a few moments of downtime.

If you’re going to be playing Among Us on now.gg, then you’ll definitely want to arm yourself with the best tips and tricks to help you win all your matches. This time around, we’ll be focusing on the Crewmate role, so you can get an idea of the best practices and methods for winning games when playing this role, which is what you’ll be doing most of the time, since there are always more Crewmates than Impostors on every match.

Let’s get started!

Learn About Every Task On the Map

As you probably know by now, the core Crewmate gameplay is to run around the map completing the tasks that are given to you at the beginning of the round. The number of tasks itself varies depending on the lobby settings, with some having a few, while others might have many more per round. In this sense, the difficulty of playing a Crewmate will depend entirely on the number of tasks, since you’ll need to survive for long if you need to complete more of them.

Part of being a good Crewmate is familiarizing yourself with all the different types of tasks on every map. And while this may sound intimidating since it might take some time and quite a few matches, you only really need to learn about the TYPE of tasks, and not the tasks themselves, as this will give you a good idea of how long each of them takes, as well as potential indicators that another player might be faking them to try and blend in.

There are three main types of tasks in Among Us:

• Normal Tasks: Regular assignments. There is nothing extraordinary about these ones, and are the hardest ones to spot if anyone is faking them because of it. 
• Visual Tasks: These are tasks that, when in progress, have a visual animation that both the Crewmate and other players can observe. These are, by far, the best way to identify if a player is an Impostor or a Crewmate since ONLY Crewmates can actually perform tasks, while Impostors can merely fake them.
• Common Tasks: These are tasks that, when one player has them, all the other players will have them as well. There are only a few common tasks on every map, and some of these include “Swipe Card”, “Fix Wiring”, “Scan Boarding Pass”, “Enter ID Code”, and “Insert Keys”. Since these tasks are given to everyone, you can potentially spot a newbie Impostor if you catch them trying to perform a common task that you don’t have.

There is an additional fourth task type, assigned only to Impostors, which are impossible tasks. These are assignments given to Impostors, but they are impossible to complete since they aren’t present on the current map. Nevertheless, this point is irrelevant since Impostors can’t complete tasks, anyway.

Try to Perform “Visual” Tasks In the Presence of Other Players

As a Crewmate, one of your core directives should always be to try and prove your innocence to as many players as possible. This will help to get other players on your side, who will support you when the Emergency Meetings start happening. Fortunately, visual tasks are the absolute best way of going about this, since they invariably prove that you’re not an Impostor, by letting other players actually see that you’re performing the task in question.

If you have a visual task on your list, such as “Clear Asteroids”, “Empty Garbage”, “Submit Scan”, or “Prime Shields”, try to do it when there are other players nearby—the smarter gamers will know what to look for, and will identify you as an actual Crewmate instead of an Impostor.

Check Your Common Tasks to Spot Potential Impostors

While we’ve mentioned this already in our first tip, we wanted to give it its own dedicated entry since it’s one of the most important things to keep in mind when playing as a Crewmate. 

If one player has a common task, then all the other players have them as well. By using this knowledge to your advantage, you can actively seek out other players that might be faking these tasks in order to try and blend in. For instance, if you don’t have the “Swipe Card” task, and see a player standing in front of the computer where players are supposed to complete this task in The Skeld, then you might have a strong case against this person, and could even be able to call an Emergency Meeting to accuse them.

On the other hand, this knowledge really only applies if your Impostor is a newbie since they also get the same common tasks on their lists. However, beginner players might not know this and will give themselves away by trying to fake the wrong common tasks.

Call Emergency Meetings ONLY if You Have Evidence of Wrongdoing

Among Us is a social game first and foremost. Even though the basic Crewmate gameplay consists of completing tasks in order to win the round, you’ll always have the social aspect of accusations and Emergency Meetings present. As such, if you garner enough suspicion towards yourself, you’re probably going to get kicked out, even if you’re not an Impostor. And interestingly enough, one of the best ways to destroy your good faith is by calling Emergency Meetings without solid evidence towards the person you’re accusing.

Throughout most of the match, players will simply be rushing from one point to the next trying to complete their tasks. In this sense, calling for Emergency Meetings will immediately rip them away from what they’re doing, and might possibly anger them in the process. Because of this, you should only call these if you have a good reason to do so, such as if you’ve spotted a player escaping through a vent, if you see them possibly faking a common task, or if you actually see them murdering someone else.

Keep in mind that reporting dead bodies also counts as an Emergency Meeting and will interrupt everyone’s gameplay. However, this isn’t as much of a red flag towards yourself, since it’s basic etiquette to report dead bodies if you ever come across one.

In Case of Facility Sabotage, Don’t Go to Fix It Alone

One of the oldest tricks in the book for Impostors is to sabotage the facility and then pounce on the unsuspecting Crewmate that comes around to fix it. This is particularly common when the lights are sabotaged, and regular players won’t be able to see as far in the distance, giving Impostors more room to murder away.

With that being said, whenever a facility is sabotaged, try to go with at least two other people to fix it. This will ensure that you don’t get eaten by an Impostor, and if you do, there will be at least another player to witness the event.

Death Is Not the End!

As a Crewmate, it’s your job to stay alive as long as possible and complete your tasks. However, even if you do get killed, either by an Impostor or from getting wrongly ejected in an Emergency Meeting, you can still keep playing as a Ghost. 

In your ghostly form, you get a full view of the map, as well as the ability to freely communicate with other dead people. Moreover, you can continue performing tasks even after your death, which will continue to count towards the total progress for a Crewmate victory. As such, even if you die, it’s important that you continue playing and helping your team out. In any case, it’s hilarious to watch as the match unfolds, and how the chaos spreads as Crewmates try to figure out who the Impostor is.