Hide & Seek

Hide in houses, bushes and treetops. Don't get found.

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2. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
3. Tap Add. The game then opens full screen from its own icon.

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Difficulty

A wander with nobody seeking: no rounds, no timer. Pick where you want to go - you can change the map, the time of day and the weather once you're there.

• W/S walk · A/D turn (the camera follows behind you) · Mouse steer while walking, look around while standing · Space jump · Shift sprint · C/Ctrl crouch · E use (doors, hiding spots, trees, ladders) · R lock a door · F/click throw · G drop · T torch (underground only) · V first/third person · scroll to zoom · P or Esc pause. On touch screens: the left-side joystick walks (up/down) and turns (left/right); drag on the right side to look.
• Hide inside things: wardrobes, chests, beds, crates, hay bales and market stalls. Seekers have to search them (E) to find you.
• Doors are solid open or shut - an open door stands beside its doorway, so you walk through the opening, not through the door. They open and close with E. Hiders can lock a door from inside (R) for 30 seconds - seekers can break it down with three hits.
• Underground it is dark. In the caves and the sewers you can only see what has light on it: somebody a few metres away, somebody under a lamp, somebody your beam is pointed at - or anybody with their own torch lit, from much further off than their beam reaches. Seekers start with the torch on, hiders start dark, and T switches yours either way. Putting it out makes you very hard to find, and very lost.
• Crouch to crawl under the market stage and the cottage porch, and in the cottage attic (ladder). There's a cellar under the barn.
• Seeker tools (keys 1–5, limited per round): ⚡ Dash, 📡 Radar (direction of the nearest hider), 🌊 Echo (reveals hiders who are moving), 🔍 Scan (reveals everyone within 10 m, once), 💥 Smash (break a hiding object or flatten a bush). Hiders nearby hear a ping when a tracker is used. Seekers also hear hiders' footsteps close by - crouch to move silently.
• Throw things: pick up tin cans, pebbles, rocks, bricks and logs (E) and throw them (F, click, or the Throw button). While seeking, a hit on the other team stuns them - a can for 0.8s, a pebble 1.2s, a rock 2s, a brick 3s and a log 4.5s. Heavier things are slower to carry and don't fly as far. Stunned seekers can't catch anyone.
• Noise gives you away: sprinting, hard landings, doors and knocking things over can be heard by the other team. Hiders leave footprints on mud and dirt paths.
• The town gives you away too. Creaky floorboards lie on the way into the hayloft, both attics and the upstairs landings - crouch across them and they stay quiet. The garden gate is the short way in from the square and squeaks; the hedge gaps are longer and silent. How you use a door matters: barging through at a sprint slams it, easing one while crouched is quieter than a footstep. Sprint past a tree full of birds and the flock goes up, which everyone hears and anyone can see from across the town - walk and they stay put.
• Tall grass hides you, but only while you stay crouched down in it.
• Day, night and weather: the sun goes down, the streetlights come on, and the weather changes - rain, storms, snow, wind and mist. Everyone sees the same sky at the same time. It's for looks: how far you can see in a round stays the same at midnight as at noon. Rain and snow can be switched off in Settings if your device struggles.
• In the main lobby, walk onto a glowing pad to use it.
• In a room, press I'm ready. The host picks a match of 1, 3 or 5 rounds and starts it; a countdown shows who the seeker is.
• One player is the seeker. Everyone else hides while the seeker counts.
• Go inside houses (some have an upstairs), crouch in bushes, or climb into a treetop. Hidden players can only be spotted up close.
• Walls, floors and hedges block sight. Jump onto crates, over fences, and even out of windows.
• The seeker catches hiders by touching them. With infection on, caught hiders join the seekers.
• Hiders feel a heartbeat when a seeker is near. In the last 45 seconds, hider positions get pinged.
• Play vs bots at Easy, Normal, Medium or Hard. Online bot games give reduced XP (25% / 50% / 75% / 100%). If the server can't be reached you can still practise offline against bots (no XP).
• Coins and diamonds: finish an online match to earn them - the higher you place, the more you get. Spend coins on shop skins, diamonds on loot boxes (the odds are shown on each box), or swap diamonds for coins. Open the 🛒 Shop from the lobby toolbar or its station. Nothing costs real money.
• Skin levels: level up any skin you've unlocked with coins in the Wardrobe (up to level 10). Each level adds a perk while you wear it: bonus coins and XP, faster stamina recovery, an extra diamond for top-3 finishes, and a sparkle trail, name badge and golden aura to show off. In ranked matches the perks that would change how a round plays - the stamina bonus, the sparkle trail and the golden aura - are switched off, so a ranked round is decided by how you play. Coin and XP bonuses still apply.
• Friends: sign in, then use 👥 Friends to add people by their friend code (or ➕ Friend in a room), see who's online, and invite them to your room or join theirs. Press 🎉 Party to queue together: the party leader's games bring everyone along (up to 4).
• Monthly pass: press 🎟️ Pass. Every online match earns pass points (20 a round, 5 a catch, 5 for surviving a round, 25 for winning, and 50 for your first match of the day - bot games count for less). Every 100 points is a tier, and each of the 30 tiers pays coins or diamonds straight away. Tiers 10, 20 and 30 give the 🦊 Fox, 🐉 Dragon and 👻 Phantom skins, which can't be bought at any price. It's free, it needs an account, and it starts again on the 1st of each month - skins you earned are yours for keeps.
• Ranked: sign in and press 🏆 Ranked to play 3-round matches for tournament points. Each week the top three win coins, diamonds and XP, and the winner moves up a rank (Bronze → Silver → Gold → Platinum → Diamond → Champion).
• Earn XP for playing, finding hiders, staying hidden and winning. Every 5 levels unlocks a new skin in the Wardrobe.

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