This guide applies to everyone who wants to play Among Us in private lobbies, regardless of what type of games you're looking for or what platform or device you use: Whether you're looking for text or voice chat lobbies, whether you play on mobile or PC.

This is mostly going to be a guide to using Discord, and it's going to be written with two types of people in mind:

• People who already have a Discord account but only really use it to talk with friends, and don't look for servers outside of that comfort zone.
• People unfamiliar with Discord who find the whole thing daunting.

Even though Discord is popular for organising games using voice chat (and I expect this will still be true after the December update), it's a misconception that it's not useful for people who prefer games using the in-game text chat. You could still use the app to find private lobbies for text games, tab out, and continue to play the game as you normally would.

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A sidenote:

This is not a guide to finding perfect games at all times. That guide doesn't and never will exist. But even though you might still come across bad players and have frustrating games, the overall quality of private lobbies is considerably higher than public ones, and that's a generalization I feel very comfortable making.

I have over 500 games played, almost all in private lobbies. Most of the problems people complain about on this subreddit – hackers, leavers, racists, sexual harassers, bad lobby settings and people who randomly accuse or throw the game – have only very rarely been a problem for me.

This game has been incredibly fun to me, and I want it to be fun for everyone else, too.

Index

1. What's Discord?
2. Step-by-step guide on joining a server & finding games
3. No seriously don't skip this step, I put it in its own section for a reason
4. Finding other servers
5. Things to look for

1. What's Discord?

Discord is an app that lets you chat directly with friends using either text or voice chat, or join servers that act as group chats.

What sets Discord apart from the dozens if not hundreds of other apps that do the same thing is its integration with software and apps popular with gamers (like Steam and Twitch), the wide range of customization options for people in servers, like granting or restriting access to certain channels, and the option to add user-made bots that add all sorts of functionality to a server.

2. Step-by-step guide on joining a server & finding games

I'm going to use this subreddit's Discord server as an example.

1. Click the subreddit's Discord invite link: https://discord.gg/amongusreddit
2. Go to the #role-select channel. Click on one of the crewmate emojis to select a role – it doesn't matter which color you pick.
3. You're in! You now have access to all the server's text and voice channels.
4. Scroll down to the "Looking For Group" channels.

• #no-mic-lfg is where people post lobby codes and info for games using the in-game chat. Because this channel is for text games for all maps, the channel is highly active.
• #skeld-vc, #mira-vc and #polus-vc are for voice chat games for those respective maps. Invites will go to the relevant voice channel, the lobby code can be found in the host's nickname.
• #hide-and-seek-lfg is for people organising voice chat games for hide-and-seek.

If you don't yet have a Discord account, you need to take two extra steps after clicking the invite link: The first is actually registering an account, the second is verifying the account by linking it to Reddit or Steam.

If you don’t have a Reddit or Steam account to link to, there’s a #verification-support channel you can use to talk to someone directly. It’s an anti-spam/abuse measure to prevent sockpuppets, burner accounts and spammers from joining. After being verified you can continue on as normal.

3. No seriously don't skip this step, I put it in its own section for a reason

Right click the server icon > Notification settings > Mute the server *or* only allow .@mentions (these are from people tagging you directly). Also tick the box next to "Suppress .@everyone & .@here". (Ticking the box next to "Suppress All Role .@mentions" is optional).

Do this with every server you join, especially big ones, to prevent notification spam.

4. Finding other servers

• Disboard
• Top.gg
• The Daily Player Interaction thread on Reddit, where people advertise their own (often smaller) servers. (I've actually found some of my favorite servers though there, even though they're not big enough to have games going 24/7).
• Occasionally through well-known Among Us Twitch streamers like 5up

5. Things to look for

Honestly my #1 piece of advice (especially if you're someone who's shy or socially anxious) is to look around and see if the overall vibe of a server is to your liking. A lot of people feel uncomfortable even joining a server, but there's no pressure to participate if you don't want to. And if the behaviour of other people makes you uncomfortable – just leave! There's literally thousands of servers out there, you get to be picky.

Make yourself familiar with the server's structure after joining. Read the rules (they're the same almost everywhere, but small variations do exist, especially with regards to cross-posting lobby codes and linking to other Discords). Some server owners have a small verification process of sorts set up in the rules or intro channel to make sure people who join have actually read them, usually something very small like "click the emote at the bottom if you've read the rules".

There's servers specific to almost every time zone, language (looking at Disboard right now there's several Spanish, French, Turkish and Russian ones near the top) or demographic, like LGBT-only, female-only or adult-only servers. These can be found in server descriptions on Disboard/Top.gg or the description people give when advertising it in the Daily Player Interaction thread.