Among Us

Complaints about other players turn up in positive reviews as well as negative ones. Negative reviews often blame other players' judgment: voting someone out on a hunch, trusting whoever names a color first, ignoring visual task clears, or not knowing that Engineers can vent. Players also describe trolls who call a meeting in the first seconds, Impostors who snitch on their partner, teamers coordinating on Discord, and players who quit as soon as they see "Crewmate": "people just quit the game if they are not the impostor and there's no penalty for leaving a match as soon as it starts." Hosts who kick players for winning, asking to start, or wearing the wrong color add to it. A negative review that exempts regular friend groups puts it this way: "you're not playing a social deduction game, you're playing Forum Tycoon with knives."

Cheaters are the most common technical complaint, raised in negative and positive reviews alike. Players describe hacked clients that reveal every Impostor at the start, kill the whole table, trigger every sabotage during meetings, recolor everyone, or kick the entire lobby, plus spam bots advertising Discord servers. One returning player wrote that "out of 5 matches, 3 of them included blatant cheaters instant killing everyone around the table". Several reviewers say they see a hacker every few games and that reporting changes nothing.

The penalty for leaving a match mid-game angers players because it fires when they did nothing wrong. Reviewers describe being kicked by a host, crashed by a hacker, frozen on a black loading screen, or dropped by the connection error about unanswered pings, and then locked out for minutes or, in some reports, hours, with the penalty growing each time. One asks the developers to "stop punishing people for having unstable internet connection!" At the same time, players say the system doesn't stop the real problem: people who want to leave simply call a meeting and get themselves voted out first.

Players report slurs in chat and usernames and sexual harassment, and one describes adults asking kids for their Discord and Instagram. A player who now sees "no point" in playing without friends says they meet harassment in about a third of lobbies: "I've stopped reporting people because it doesn't do anything, there's more of them in the next lobby." Another tells parents to talk to their kids about online safety first, because the game has free chat.

Beginner, Intermediate and Expert tags are a running joke. Players say anyone can join any tag, so a level 1 player can end up in an Expert lobby with veterans. Several ask for the same simple fix: "please add account level locks for expert lobbys".

A cluster of negative reviews comes from players who were permanently banned for chat or names and say they got no warning and no human review. Some admit to slurs or insults; others insist the ban was a mistake or a mass-report. Either way, the complaint is about the process: "I did not receive a single warning before getting banned".

Players describe 20 or more rounds in a row as Crewmate and ask for a pity system or a guaranteed rate: "there should be a guaranteed rate for the impostor role due to how hard it is to get impostor sometimes." Some add that when they finally get the role, a hacker or a lucky guess ends it in the first meeting.

A steady trickle of reviews reports setup issues: a birthday entered wrong that locks free chat and can't be changed without guardian or ID verification, verification steps they dislike, mobile or Switch accounts that won't merge ("Linked all accounts, didn't get any of the items on my other accounts"), beans that reset or fail to sync, achievements that won't unlock, and a logo followed by a black screen on launch.

Some players say the tasks and maps get stale after a few sessions: "the normal gameplay gets repetitive really quickly." They ask for more maps and modes, and a few say updates come too slowly or lean on cosmetics. Other reviewers say the opposite, that no two rounds play the same.