Roles

Roles are a game mechanic in Among Us that are randomly selected. Each role has different goals and abilities.

Overview

Both the impostor and crewmate roles are shown when the game begins. However, the ghost and guardian angel (if enabled) role can only be obtained by being killed by an Impostor or being ejected. In rare case, a player can be guardian angel or ghost in the beginning of the game, this is a bug which should be fixed soon. There are currently seven roles in Among Us which are crewmate, impostor, scientist, shapeshifter, engineer, noisemaker, tracker, phantom, guardian angel, and ghost. Each role has different abilities, mechanics and goal to help/to win the game.

All players have access to admin, customize (lobby only), doorlog (MIRA HQ only), report, security (All maps except MIRA HQ), use, and vitals (All maps, except The Skeld and MIRA HQ, and scientist).

Role	Team	Obtaining criteria	Mechanics and additional abiilities
Crewmate		At the start of the game by random	Can be killed by impostors Can send messages to other living players, vote to eject or kick other living players, report other players during meetings Can resolve sabotages and use emergency button Cannot see or chat with dead players
Impostor		At the start of the game by random	Have red names which can be seen only by themselves and other Impostors. Can kill, sabotage and vent Can send messages to other living players, vote to eject or kick other living players, report other players during meetings Can resolve sabotages and use emergency button Cannot see or chat with dead players
Ghost	Impostor /Crewmate (depends)	Being killed either by an Impostor or by being ejected.	Always have access to the chat and only send messages to other ghosts Can move through collisions Can see other ghosts Cannot be ejected Cannot resolve sabotages and use emergency button Cannot use ladders, moving platform and zipline Cannot vote to eject or kick other living players, report other players during meetings Have increased speed Have unlimited and unobstructed vision Crewmates ghosts only Cannot be killed by impostors Can still do their tasks Impostors ghosts only Cannot kill and vent Can sabotage
Shapeshifter	Impostor	Randomly at the start of the game. Must be enabled in the lobby options.	Have red names which can be seen only by themselves and other Impostors. Can kill, sabotage, vent, and shift Can send messages to other living players, vote to eject or kick other living players, report other players during meetings Can resolve sabotages and use emergency button Cannot see or chat with dead players
Engineer	Crewmate	Randomly at the start of the game. Must be enabled in the lobby options.	Can be killed by impostors Can send messages to other living players, vote to eject or kick other living players, report other players during meetings Can resolve sabotages and use emergency button Can vent Cannot see or chat with dead players
Guardian Angel	Crewmate	Being killed by an Impostor or ejected as a Crewmate, Scientist, Engineer, Noisemaker or Tracker. Must be enabled in the lobby options.	Always have access to the chat and only send messages to other ghosts Have increased speed Have unlimited and unobstructed vision Can see other ghosts Can move through collisions Cannot be ejected Cannot vote to eject or kick other living players, report other players during emergency meetings Cannot resolve sabotages Cannot use ladders, moving platform and zipline Can Protect Can still do their tasks
Scientist	Crewmate	Randomly at the start of the game. Must be enabled in the lobby options.	Can be killed by impostors Can send messages to other living players, vote to eject or kick other living players, report other players during meetings Can resolve sabotages and use emergency button Have portable vitals Cannot see or chat with dead players
Phantom	Impostor	Randomly at start of the game. Must be enabled in the lobby options.	Have red names which can be seen only by themselves and other Impostors. Can kill, sabotage, vent, and vanish Can send messages to other living players, vote to eject or kick other living players, report other players during meetings Can resolve sabotages and use emergency button Cannot see or chat with dead players
Noisemaker	Crewmate	Randomly at start of the game. Must be enabled in the lobby options	Can be killed by impostors Can send messages to other living players, vote to eject or kick other living players, report other players during meetings Can resolve sabotages and use emergency button sends alert when killed Cannot see or chat with dead players
Tracker	Crewmate	Randomly at start of the game. Must be enabled in the lobby options.	Can be killed by impostors Can send messages to other living players, vote to eject or kick other living players, report other players during meetings Can resolve sabotages and use emergency button Can track crewmates Cannot see or chat with dead players
Rancher		Randomly at the start of the game. Must be Horse Wrangling gamemode.	Functions identically to the Seeker besides the change in appearance and music.

Crewmate

Main article: Crewmate

Crewmates' goal is to complete tasks while staying alive and figuring out who the Impostor(s) is/are. The crewmates win once all their tasks are completed or there are no living Impostors left in the game.

In Hide n Seek game mode, the Crewmates only way of winning the game is to wait until the time runs out, however, Crewmates have tasks which will reduced the remaining time upon completion. Their tasks will be removed during Final Hide. Every Crewmate spawns as an Engineer, with a limited number of uses of their Vent ability as decided by the game settings.

Impostor

Main article: Impostor

Impostors are Crewmates' enemy, and their goal is to kill crewmates while avoiding being ejected. The Impostors win when at least half of the living players are Impostors or the countdown for a critical Sabotage reaches zero.

In Hide n Seek game mode, the Impostor loses their ability to Sabotage and Vent in exchange for having only 1 second of Kill Cooldown. Their goal is to kill every living Crewmate before the round ends.

Ghost

Main article: Ghost

Ghosts are role that players obtain when they are killed or ejected, their goal remain the same when they are alive as ghosts still win with their team. Ghost Crewmates can use their Haunt ability to spectate dead players, and Impostors can still sabotage.

Scientist

Main article: Scientist

The Scientist is a crewmate-style additional role added in version 2021.11.9 that was announced alongside the Sheriff at Summer Game Fest. Players with this role are given a portable vitals to monitor that can be accessed from anywhere on the map, however, the portable vitals only last for 5 seconds (adjustable in options) and to recharge, the scientist must complete a task or wait for 20 seconds, if they completed all their tasks (adjustable in options). Scientist cannot use their portable vitals during comms sabotage.

Engineer

Main article: Engineer

The Engineer is a crewmate-style additional role that was added in version 2021.11.9. Players with this role are given the ability to hide or travel through vents and cannot be killed while in the vent as a result, they can stay in the vent for 5 seconds (adjustable in options) and to gain back the ability to vent, the engineer must complete a task or wait for 20 seconds, if they completed all their tasks (adjustable in options). Engineer cannot vent during comms sabotage.

Guardian Angel

Main article: Guardian Angel

The Guardian Angel is a ghost-style additional role that was added in version 2021.11.9. Players with this role are given the ability to Protect living players from being killed, but only if they are crewmate, scientist or engineer, have died and Guardian Angel is enabled. Guardian Angel can use protect on any alive player with a 60 seconds cooldown (adjustable in options) for 30 seconds (adjustable in options). Guardian Angel cannot use their protect during comms sabotage.

Shapeshifter

Main article: Shapeshifter

The Shapeshifter is an impostor-style additional role added in version 2021.11.9 that was announced on October 27, 2021. Players who have this role have the ability to transform into any other players for a limited time to trick crewmates with a 30 seconds cooldown (adjustable in options) lasting 10 seconds (adjustable in options).

Noisemaker

Main article: Noisemaker

The Noisemaker is a crewmate-style additional role added in version 2024.6.18. Players who have this role make an alarm when killed, alerting all other players of the location of the kill.

Tracker

Main article: Tracker (role)

The Tracker is a crewmate-style additional role added in version 2024.6.18. Players who have this role can place a tracker on any other crewmember and track them on their mini-map.

Phantom

Main article: Phantom

The Phantom is an impostor-style additional role added in version 2024.6.18. Players who have this role can temporarily become invisible to other players.

Unused/Removed

Sheriff

Main article: Sheriff

The Sheriff is a role that was announced alongside the Scientist at Summer Game Fest. However, it was not released in version 2021.11.9 with other additional role and hence assumed to be a cancelled project. It is currently still unknown what abilities would have came with this role, howewer, it is speculated that it works the same way as it works in Murder Mystery, the game Among Us was based on, wherein the Sheriff role is considered an innocent player albeit with the ability to kill any players, including the equivalent to Impostors. The Sheriff would, however, also die themselves if the person they killed was also innocent.

Oracle

Main article: Oracle

The Oracle is an Unused role who can know for certain that one Crewmate is not An Impostor. They may be re-implemented in the future.

Rancher

Main article: Rancher

The Rancher is an additional role that was added for 1 day in version 2023.3.28 in the Horse Wrangling gamemode during the April Fools event. The role functions the same as the Impostor would in Hide n Seek.

Trivia

In Practice, players can switch between all available roles by clicking on their respective file in Task Tester 2000.
More roles will probably be added as the game updates over time, such as Sheriff.
In the 2024 roadmap, Innersloth announced new roles coming to the game.

Videos

Roles trailer

Audio

Audio	Description
	The sound played when the role is revealed.

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