
Project Winter isn’t necessarily a replacement to Among Us, but it offers noticeable upgrades in all of these areas, as well as several smart ideas of its own. The visuals are simple but charming, and the gameplay mechanics are limited but weirdly addicting, like trying to swipe that bastard card to complete a ship task. It’s great fun, and for me, it’s been the perfect game to ‘level up’ to after playing Among Us, given its extra nuance.īecause as amazing as Among Us is, it has a modest makeup, which has ultimately helped the game to achieve mainstream appeal. Meanwhile, traitors in the group sabotage their plans, lay traps and off stray explorers in fits of terrible violence. It’s a little different in its premise – you play a set of adventurers in a remote arctic cabin, and the innocents have to complete tasks to call in a chopper and escape.


Project Winter is essentially 3D Among Us, with a wider set of mechanics and unique player roles to dig into. READ MORE: ‘Among Us’ celebrates a new kind of gaming expertise – lying your arse offīut I expect that some Among Us players who have declared the deceit royale their new favourite genre may be looking for something more, and that’s where Project Winter comes in. You can really learn a lot about a person when they’re being accused of murder, turns out! Personality traits spill out like hot honey when you’re in the interrogation phase.

Its phenomenal, deserved popularity has come with an added benefit – it’s led me to reconnect with old friends and get to know my current crop of comrades better. Like many of you, I’ve played it to death over the past few months.
