Meccha Chameleon reaches a million sold, as hide-and-seek continues to sell

Indie developed Meccha Chameleon has sold over a million copies on Steam, per developer Lemorion_1224.

“Back in my day, we used to knock for our friends and then play hide and seek for hours before heading back for dinner. We weren’t stuck on screens!” Thanks for your candid reflection, Deirdre.

The world’s a little different now. Houses cost more than a sixpence, and you have to remortgage a one-bed studio apartment to send a letter using Royal Mail’s first-class postage service.

So it seems, kids (and adults alike) are enjoying screen-based, online hide-and-seek, or in gamer-speak, “Prop Hunt-style party games” in their droves. Meccha Chameleon is the latest game in the genre to tickle the pickle of streamers and those wishing to indulge in whimsical party games.

The premise is simple: a team-based affair, with hiders, and, you guessed it… seekers. The hiders start as plain white characters and use an in-game color palette to paint themselves so they can blend into surrounding environment. Seekers are then tasked with finding every Hider before the timer runs out.

With the game online and it having a timed mechanic, there’s no risk of Little Jimmy being left under the stairs for countless hours due to negligence or spite. The nuance of hiding is in how well players are able to mimic colors, textures, and the shapes around them and use the painting tool to be as creative as they’re able to be.

I don’t dare get involved. I was given an E grade for my drawing of what was in my pencil case when I was 12, and I just know I’d be absolutely awful.

The game looks a lot of fun, and has reached peak concurrent player counts of 95,482 on Steam. It also drew more than 100,000 viewers on Twitch around launch and the developer has started to outline post-launch updates. There’s already new maps in the offing, and other quality of life improvements for users.

Video game developers keep finding new ways to make hide-and-seek a little more fun. I guess even games like Dead by Daylight are largely just hide-and-seek with a twist. I remember when Among Us released a hide-and-seek mode, too. Turns out, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel to sell a million copies if a game’s oodles of fun.

Meccha Chameleon is available on Steam with a base price of $5.99 / £5.29. There’s still a 20% launch discount available until June 16, reducing the price to $4.79 / £4.23.

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