Meccha Chameleon: $6 janky indie prop-hunt hit on Steam

I didn’t expect much at first when I saw Meccha Chameleon, a new online multiplayer game seemingly made by two developers, but its surge to more than 300,000 concurrent Steam players convinced me to try it. Hunters armed with shotguns face larger groups whose job is to hide by painting their bodies to match the environment; the hunters have limited time to find and shoot everyone.

Unlike typical prop-hunt modes, Meccha Chameleon rewards visibility rather than invisibility: you only score when you’re in a hunter’s direct line of sight, so the goal becomes hiding in plain sight and using paint to mask your outline. You can taunt to draw hunters in, and painting is part of the play—you add texture and detail to blend in, with no undo, and you can keep working while hunters are searching.

The game is very janky.

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