Impostor
About Impostor
Impostor is a free online arcade game inspired by Among Us that puts you in the role of the deceiver rather than a suspicious crewmate. The setting is a spaceship drifting through space, staffed by a crew trying to complete their tasks and keep the ship running. As the impostor, your job is to sabotage their work, sneak through vents to move around undetected, and eliminate crew members one at a time, all while maintaining a convincing disguise so nobody figures out who’s really behind the chaos.
Impostor runs entirely in your browser with no download or install needed, controlled with simple WASD or arrow key movement plus dedicated buttons for sabotage, venting, and kills. The tension comes from balancing aggression with patience: strike too often and the crew calls an emergency meeting to vote you out, but wait too long and they’ll finish their tasks and win outright, which keeps every round feeling like a careful risk calculation.
Controls
| Action | Control |
|---|---|
| Move | WASD or Arrow Keys |
| Sabotage | Press the Sabotage Button |
| Enter/Exit Vent | Press the Vent Button |
| Eliminate a Crewmate | Press the Kill Button |
Take Impostor Actions
Blending in means pretending to walk through tasks just like a real crewmate would, even though you have none to complete. Vents let you cut across the ship quickly and quietly, appearing in rooms without being seen entering from a corridor, which makes them your best tool for catching a crew member alone. When you sabotage a system, there’s a short cooldown before you can trigger another, but you’re still free to eliminate crew members during that window, so sabotage is as much a distraction as it is a way to slow the crew down.
Avoid Being Ejected
Once someone stumbles across a body, the crew calls a meeting and votes on who they think the impostor is. If enough suspicion points at you, you’re ejected from the ship and the round ends in a loss. The safest approach is to only strike when a crewmate is completely alone with no witnesses nearby, and to avoid lingering near a body after a kill, since being seen close to a corpse is one of the fastest ways to get caught.
Tips for Winning at Impostor
Fake doing tasks whenever other crewmates are nearby so your movement pattern looks normal. Use vents to close distance on isolated targets and to escape quickly after a kill. Time sabotages to split the crew up, since a divided group is much easier to pick off one by one. Stay calm and confident during meetings, since panicked or contradictory answers are what usually give impostors away.
How to Play Impostor
- Spawn aboard the ship — Start alongside the crewmates as the hidden impostor.
- Blend in — Move around and fake tasks to avoid suspicion.
- Find an isolated crewmate — Watch for someone alone with no one else nearby.
- Eliminate them — Press the kill button to take them out.
- Escape through vents — Use vents to leave the scene unseen.
- Sabotage systems — Trigger sabotages to distract or split up the remaining crew.
- Survive meetings — Stay calm during votes to avoid being ejected.
Developer
Impostor is published by DRA.
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