Mono Chameleon

Mono Chameleon is an online hide-and-seek game styled like a retro handheld, with a world drawn in four dithered shades of olive and cream. Hiders paint themselves to blend into patterned surfaces, matching a wall or doodling for fun; seekers hunt in first person with a catch gun. There is no radar for finding hiders, so seekers must spot them and listen for a whistle.

Game modes

The game has five modes: Normal, classic hide-and-seek; Infection; Double, where everyone hides before everyone seeks; Tag; and Prop Hunt. In Prop Hunt and the hide-and-seek modes, hiders can leave up to three decoys per round. When a seeker shoots one, it shatters and slows them briefly. In Shadow-to-shadow Tag, a low sun casts long shadows in which the Dark team can blend in. Sneaking raises no dust and softens footsteps.

Play together

The game supports proximity voice chat, emotes that work in any language and moderated text chat. You can save your painted look and share it with friends using a code. A Daily Challenge offers a new layout every day, and Steam achievements, emote sets and titles are available to unlock.

Quick Match puts you into a game, with CPU players filling empty spots so you can start even alone. Late joiners enter at the next round. Steam lobbies support friend invites, and the game also supports LAN play.

Stream rooms

One click on “Create a stream room” sets up audience seats, comments, votes and turns to play; viewers join with a room code. Rooms support up to 10 player seats and 239 audience seats. When the player seats are full, viewers can launch the game and watch from the audience. They can also line up to play as seats open. In a full room, guests rotate out after 1, 2 or 3 matches while the host stays, and waiting viewers join automatically. The “Swap out” option frees a seat without removing a player, who can return with the code.

The audience can vote on who survives to the end and, during a match, which side to help. The chosen side gets a small, short-lived boost, such as slowing seekers for 5 seconds, giving every hider an extra decoy or fully reloading the seekers’ guns. Audience comments and one-tap reactions appear across the screen but are not shown to players, and audience members can use X-ray to see where everyone is hiding. The host can turn X-ray off in the room settings.

The host can sit out as director, switch cameras or use the auto camera, and let the audience vote on the next map, mode or hunt length. Hosts can also mute or remove commenters. Streamer mode hides the room code behind dots by default, and the chat can be moved to the bottom-right for a facecam in the bottom-left.