Hush Piñata

Hush Piñata is an online game about partygoers trapped in a shared nightmare after a Day of the Dead celebration. A blindfolded piñata hunts them by sound: noise creates colorful echoes that reveal their location. Eating candy, letting hunger make your stomach growl and running can all give you away, while standing still may be dangerous too.

The island of the hunt

As a partygoer, you complete noisy tasks scattered across the map to unlock the piñata’s tail, then get close enough to tear it off. You must carry the tail until a counter reaches 100%, while staying alive and keeping other partygoers from stealing it. If you succeed, the piñata explodes in a shower of candy, which is converted into coins for the lobby skin shop.

Each completed task earns a ticket for the item stall, where you can find items to help your mission or make things harder for the other partygoers. A goat can sniff out anyone carrying candy and chase them across the map, bleating loudly enough to draw the piñata’s attention. You can quiet it by giving it a piece of candy.

Play as the piñata

You can also play as the blindfolded piñata and hunt the partygoers. Golden cubes appear around the map during a match; collecting one gives you a random weapon, each with its own abilities and perks.

Game modes

Hush Piñata has three modes:

• Steal the Piñata’s Tail: Up to eight partygoers face one player-controlled piñata. Complete tasks, unlock and take the tail, then hold onto it until the counter reaches 100%.
• Last One Standing: There is no tail, no tasks and no clock. The last partygoer alive wins all the coins.
• Team vs. Team: Green and Red teams play from 2v2 to 4v4, with the piñata controlled by the game. The team holding the tail wins each round in a best-of-three match.

After elimination

What happens after you die depends on the mode. In Steal the Piñata’s Tail, you can return to the living by taking an offering to an altar and performing a ritual. If you die without an offering, you become a ghost who haunts other partygoers and tries to persuade them to make one on your behalf.

In Last Survivor mode, death is final, but you can take control of La Catrina and explore the land of the dead. Find and collect the bodies of partygoers who have died to earn coins while you wait for the match to end.

Coins and matches

Coins can be spent in the lobby shop on characters, hairstyles, hats, mustaches, outfits and accessories. You can play online with up to nine players in private rooms created with a code or in public rooms. Matches are quick, and players can take turns playing as the piñata.