Hide & Seek

About this series

Hide & Seek is the series about not being seen. In Paint Hide you are a small gel slime in a gallery courtyard, and a cloaked hunter with a lantern is walking a patrol route. Paint yourself the colour of the glowing floor mat, sit still long enough, and the hunter walks straight past. Pick the wrong colour near the light and you are caught. Paint Hide 2: Snow Courtyard is the winter sequel — footprints in fresh snow (or wet paint the rest of the year) give you away, and the hunter follows them until you break the trail on stone, rugs or the coloured mats. The series leans on timing and reading the room rather than reflexes: watch the patrol, find the window, commit. Like the rest of Sly Arcade it has a sly streak — some SAFE labels are lies, and you only learn which after a slip. Each game has thirty stages and a seeded Daily (Daily Hide and Daily Snow). Start with Paint Hide if you are new, then move to the snow courtyard when you want footprints and trail-breaking. Expect each stage to take a minute or two: watch, plan, paint, hold. Both play with a keyboard on desktop or with touch on phones and tablets, in landscape or portrait.