How to unlock Halloween and Christmas-themed items in Among Us

Forget tricking your crewmates, you need to trick your computer
Halloween-themed cosmetics for all!
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Jack Webb @JackWebb9225 September 2020

If you're playing Among Us you might have noticed some players have awesome seasonal cosmetics.

When playing online you could be encountering players who are wearing cosmetics which you don't have access to; things like adorable pumpkins hats, witch hats, wolf ears, a Jason Voorhees mask and a matching hat for another player which looks like a machete is lodged in their head.

Considering how it's now nearly October, which means Halloween is just around the corner, now is the perfect time to grab yourself some horrifically spooky outfits in Among Us as you diligently kill every crewmate or nobly carry out all of your tasks to weed out the killer.

Normally, these fun seasonal cosmetics would only be available on the date, but there's a nice little workaround if you're desperate to get your hands on them right now.

How to get Halloween costumes in Among Us

The answer is time travel.

No, not quite Back to The Future style, but in a more metaphorical way: all you need to do is change the time and date on your PC.

It works in a similar way to how people time travel in Animal Crossing, by changing the Switch's inner clock to match a different time and date entirely.

The cosmetics tab
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After trying this out, we can confirm this method does seem to work if you have purchased the Steam version of the game.

On your laptop or computer, open up the date and time settings and turn off the 'Set time automatically' option.

This will free you up to manually enter the incorrect time and date to essentially trick the game and your computer into thinking it is, for example, now Halloween by entering in October 31, 2019 as the date.

Once you've jumped back in time, again not literally, fire up Among Us and either create or join a lobby.

The lobby is where you're able to change your avatar's appearance at a laptop position on a crate – from colour to hats to clothes, there's a bunch of cosmetic items to choose from.

If you followed the above steps correctly, you should now see all the Halloween hats and you'll be free to choose from them at any time, even if you revert your PC time and date back.

Setting your date to October 31, by the way, will also deck out the maps with spooky Halloween decorations to help set the mood.

How to get Christmas costume in Among Us

As you might expect, you can use the exact same trick for Christmas cosmetics if you set your PC or device to December 25, 2019.

This will unlock the Christmas hats and you can then change the date back and enjoy them at any time once you unlock and wear them.

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It is important to note that this trick only works because the game has been out since 2018, which means if you were to, for example, skip ahead to October 31 2020, the time skip wouldn't work because it hasn't actually happened in the game yet.

Reverting to the past when the Halloween and Christmas decorations went live will be the only way to get it to work, because it has already happened in the game.

What is Among Us?

The game has a simple premise: you are either part of the crew or you are an Imposter. If you've seen John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), you'll have a pretty good idea of the suspicion and sabotaging gameplay it is cultivating.

One or two players have been replaced by a parasitic shapeshifter. The Imposter need to eliminate the rest of the crew by sabotaging the ship, sneaking through vents, deceiving and framing others to remain anonymous.

Crewmates must run around a map completing tasks while the Imposter tries to secretly and quietly eliminate all crewmates, all the while removing any suspicions crewmates might have of them.

Try not to get killed by the Imposter...
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If you happen upon someone's body, you can report that you've found it and this will pause gameplay to call a meeting between all players.

During this time, everyone must discuss who they think might be the killer for whatever reason and then if there's enough evidence to pin it on one person, you can all vote this player out. If it was one single Imposter, then the crewmates win, if it was an innocent crewmate who has just been framed, well, you're probably not doing so well.

If you're a crewmate who has been killed by the Imposter, you don't get to vote and you're not allowed to tell people who it is that killed you.

Crewmates need to work out who the Imposter is
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Where Among Us gets interesting is when Imposters are really good at lying or just incredibly convincing when trying to defend themselves.

Interestingly, the game came out in 2018 and for some reason or another, it skyrocketed to extreme popularity around August.

Big YouTubers are playing it with their friends, everyone is talking about it and it seems like Among Us has finally found an audience.

Just looking at the Steam DB figures, it launched in 2018 to little fanfare but you can see a clear and impressive spike in interest and players around June 2020 and it is only growing.

Among Us is out now, buy it on Steam and Itch.io

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