A new chapter unfolds in the Among Us saga with the arrival of update 16.0.0. This update focuses on improving matchmaking, ensuring players have a more streamlined experience when hunting down Impostors or completing tasks alongside friends.
Matchmaking Update
HERE. WE. GO. Our overhauled matchmaking is here! The team made changes thanks to your responses to last year’s player feedback survey. Your thoughts have had a big influence on the kind of chaos we bring in updates like this. Thanks for helping shape Among Us.
Finding Games
At the core of matchmaking, we want to make sure you have the right tools to find the lobby you want. With that in mind, our team put their heads together and cooked up this new interface:
Doesn’t that look snazzy? The screen delivers key info at a glance like: the amount of lobbies currently online in your server region, the map, and how many Crewmates there are. We added the player speed and if roles are activated too. With all these visible right away, you can quickly choose a lobby if you’re trying to jump into a round.
We’ve heard your cries for improved filtering! Now you can fine tune your searches via the “Filters” button. When you do, you’ll see this new screen:
In the “Filters” screen you can choose the settings you’d like to home in on for your preferred lobby. Choices include:
- Classic
- Hide n Seek
- Maps
- Number of Impostors
- Roles
- Player Speed
- Kill cooldown
- Voting time
- Visual tasks
- Anonymous votes
- Confirm ejects
- Tags (Beginner, Intermediate, Expert)
After you select your settings and close the tab, you’ll see how many lobbies match your choices and be able to join. If you can’t find any games with the settings you chose, either unselect some or choose the “clear filters” option to wipe all the filters at once and start over! This just means you’ve gotten too specific.
When you find a lobby you’re ready to join, you can either tap the listing to dive right in or click “More” and see the game details:
If the lobby settings look good to you, it’s time to join and investigate some Impostors (or at least carry your fellow Crewmates).
Lobby Creation
For those Crewmates who like holding the reins and creating lobbies – your experience has been upgraded too. After you select Play and Online you’ll see 3 options: Create Game, Enter Code, and Find Game. When you choose Create Game you’ll see this:
Along with the cute animation every time you increase the player capacity, you’ll be able to choose between:
- Classic and Hide n Seek modes
- The 5 maps
- Tags
- Server regions
- Chat types
- Chat language
When you select “Create Game” you’ll see a confirmation screen before it’s set in stone and unchangeable forever… bwahahahahahaha (not really – you can always change these).
“But what about the roles and visual tasks and confirming votes…?” You’ll still be able to edit these settings once you’re in the Dropship by going to the good ol’ laptop and editing the settings from the menu we updated previously:
Joining a Game
Among Us is best when playing with your friends (and soon to be enemies). When one of them sends you a lobby code to join a match you’ll have an updated screen as well:
Now, when you enter a code you’ll be able to confirm the host, lobby capacity, region, and the chat type. If all looks in order, you can click “Join Game” and enter the lobby. And don’t worry if your chat type or region don’t match – the game will update this for you (as long as you have permissions to use Free Chat) so you can focus on the upcoming chaos!
Kamurocho Collab
It’s time to be(an) like a dragon, Crewmates! Our first Cosmicube collab of the year is here. Spend 110 Stars so you can start unlocking some criminally good cosmetics – check our collab blog for the details.
With these hot new cosmetics you’ll be ready for The Skeld karaoke party or to chase after all those Crewmates dressed like Kiryu-chan…
Before you head to the cafeteria, let’s cover one more change for this update.
New Version Number
Those of you with sharp visors will note that I called this update 16.0.0 instead of v2025.3.25. That’s because of Impostor sabotage the team wanted to make things easier for us going forward.
What do the new numbers mean? Well, if we reference the image above:
- The first number (blue box) increases whenever we have major updates. Think updated systems like matchmaking, or content like new maps or roles!
- The second number (red box) increases when we have smaller updates. This includes things like bug fixes or cosmetic drops.
- The third number in the series (yellow box) will increase if we deploy hotfixes or have platform specific changes.
This new version system will also help us narrow down what could be causing you trouble if you have to send us a helpdesk ticket.
Speaking of the helpdesk – let’s check in with Mike in the Bug Zone!
So many things to explore! Our team has worked hard on our tasks to get the new matchmaking feature ready, and we hope you love all the new ways to find exactly the lobbies you want. But like any new feature, there’s always the chance that some things don’t work exactly like we planned.
Don’t worry, we’re keeping a lookout! If you see anything that doesn’t work, are having trouble finding games with your friends, or see anything else that might be a new bug crawling out from under the Dropship, let us know. Crewmates like yourselves play a big role in helping us find and squash bugs, ya know!
If you find something wrong, head over to this page and send us a message. Remember – specific is better! Tell us everything you can, send screenshots, record a video if you can get the issue to happen more than once, etc. Our team will look over everything and figure out if there’s something to fix.
Phew. Okay, enough bug talk. Time to create the perfect lobby to sabotage diligently complete my tasks…
Mike
If you made it here, you have one final task… check out some fun community creations!
First up is from one redditor, Ok_Walk_9285! They drew some adorable little Crewmates and did it all through MS Paint?! Great color choices and cute style, imo.
Our second piece of community art is also from the subreddits! This cool automata was made by backwardslamb. Major kudos on bringing Red out of the vent… literally!
This third creation was drawn by Felix from our official Discord server! They took a “bean of the week” prompt and personified it. I think you should add a gold star, Felix! You earned it.
We never get tired of seeing the wonderful art and creations y’all make! Be sure to tag us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky and Tiktok when you’re sharing so we can get our visors on what you make.
What do you think about these changes?
