Among Us

Is Among Us safe for kids?

Mostly, yes. Among Us is a short social-deduction game in which crewmates hunt for an impostor, and Innersloth has built its child protections around chat: players under the digital-consent age, 13 in most countries, are locked into Quick Chat, a menu of fixed phrases, until a parent approves free chat. The weak spots are public lobbies, where teenagers and adults type freely to strangers and cheaters still turn up, and the ads added in late 2025.

We score it 62/100, above Fortnite (57) and Stumble Guys (55) and below Minecraft (69). It has no fines on record. Its weakest point is privacy, where the App Store label and the privacy policy no longer tell the same story.

How chat works for children

Chat is the core of the game: after each body is found, players argue in a text meeting and vote someone out. Innersloth launched its account system in March 2021 with an age gate. The game uses the date of birth, country and IP address to decide whether a player is a child. A child account gets Quick Chat and a randomly generated name; free chat and a custom name need a parent's approval, which runs through a parent portal operated by Kids Web Services. A child on Quick Chat can only send preset phrases, so there is no way to type a phone number, a social media handle or an invitation to another app.

Once a parent approves, or for anyone over the age limit, the picture changes. Public lobbies hold up to 15 strangers, and the chat is open text. Innersloth's code of conduct bans harassment, sexual content and requests for personal details, and lets players switch to Quick Chat or turn on language filters for themselves. Many players move to Discord for voice, which is outside Innersloth's moderation; see our Discord page for that side.

Reports, bans and cheaters

Reporting sits in the chat's Kick menu. Innersloth says reports are read by people, not bots, and its privacy policy names ModSquad as a moderation provider. When someone is reported, their username, IP address, chat logs and past sanctions may be stored for review. Bans run from 1 to 30 days up to permanent, and they cover alternate accounts. Hosts can kick or ban players from their own lobby, a control added in 2018 against spam.

Cheating is the more visible problem. In October 2020, at the height of the game's popularity, a spammer calling himself "Eris Loris" flooded public lobbies with messages promoting a YouTube channel and cheat tools. Innersloth pushed an emergency server update and told players to stick to private games, according to ESET's WeLiveSecurity. No player data was reported taken, but hacked lobbies and modded clients still appear in public games. Private lobbies with a code shared among friends avoid most of it.

What Innersloth collects, and the ads

Collection is modest for a free game: no precise location, contacts or photos. Apple's label lists device ID, advertising data and performance data as linked to the player, and purchases, gameplay content and user ID as collected without a link. One data type, identifiers, is marked as used to track you across other companies' apps and websites.

That tracking line arrived with ads. In December 2025 Innersloth added a star button on phones: watch an ad, get one Star, the paid currency, up to three times a day. Ads are optional, and Innersloth says they are not offered to child accounts without full permissions. The privacy policy, though, is still the version that took effect on 1 July 2023, and it says Innersloth does not sell or share personal data for targeted advertising. Google Play's data safety page also declares no sharing. Under our rules we score on the broader account, which here is Apple's label, and we take points off for a policy that has not caught up.

For child users, the policy is stricter. Children's data is not shared except for safety, legal or service reasons, and Unity analytics and Sentry diagnostics are not used on child accounts. A parent can review or delete a child's data by email or post.

Accounts and spending

There is no Among Us password to steal. Players sign in with the platform account, such as Apple, Google, Steam, Epic or Xbox, and can link several at accounts.innersloth.com. Account security therefore depends on that platform account and its two-step login. Innersloth's policy names TLS 1.2 or later in transit and salted hashing for stored data. We found no bug bounty programme on HackerOne or Bugcrowd.

Spending is light by the standards of the genre. The App Store lists cosmetic bundles at $1.99 to $2.99 and ad removal at $1.99. Beans and Stars buy Cosmicubes, progression tracks of cosmetics. Apple does not flag loot boxes.

How to set it up for a child

1. Enter the child's real birth date at the age gate, so the account starts in Quick Chat with a random name.
2. Approve free chat in the parent portal only when you are comfortable with strangers typing to your child; until then, leave it off.
3. Play in private lobbies with a code shared among friends rather than public matchmaking.
4. Show your child the Report button in the Kick menu, and tell them never to follow links or move to Discord or another app with someone met in a game.
5. Lock purchases on the phone with Ask to Buy or Google Family Link.

How we scored it

Regulatory record (87) is the strongest factor: we found no fine, order or published regulator review that names Among Us. Privacy (56) is the weakest, because Apple's label shows device IDs used for ad tracking while the 2023 policy says data is not shared for targeted ads. Scams and harmful content (60) credits Quick Chat for children and human review of reports, offset by open text chat with strangers and cheaters in public lobbies.