Your Friends vs. Hidebehind

Your Friends vs. Hidebehind is an online co-op game for 1–6 players, set in a procedurally generated forest. Before each run, the game records your voice; when you are taken, your scream plays back to everyone. Each group’s recordings and endings are personal to that group, and built-in proximity voice chat lets players hear one another nearby.

Face the Hidebehind

The Hidebehind lurks in every shadow, sound and corner of the forest, and will always find you. It locks onto a player and freezes them as the world goes dark and tendrils creep in from the edges of the screen. To escape, you must turn and face it before your nerve runs out. While you are paralyzed, it plays a distorted recording of a scream from one of your taken friends. The game suggests that a taken friend may still be somewhere on a different plane of existence, and that nerve can beat luck, but only briefly.

Search the forest

Explore a forest that is generated differently each run, find the keys and reach the bunker. The Hidebehind does not appear the same way to every player at the same time, so players may see different things. The forest also contains landmarks, fake cabins and notes left by people who did not make it. Cosmic residue marks each take site, with teammates’ screams echoing inside, and the forest remembers you the longer you stay.

Return as a Spectre

After being taken, you cross over as a Spectre. You can move freely, pass through doors, use Item Vision to tag items for your team and build charge to manifest back. Your friends still need you, but the forest changes the rules.