First-person hide-and-seek horror

Run from your friends. Then hunt them.

Bring your friends. Play the free multiplayer browser demo together.

Full game · 26 October 2026 · Windows

Play free browser demo Wishlist on Steam

Desktop browser · Keyboard and mouse · Simplified visuals and limited content.
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Make it your next game night

Send the link. Bring the people you want to scare.

The browser demo is multiplayer. Share it with your group: one friend creates a server, and the others join. You can play together whenever it suits you.

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The footage and hunting grounds below show the Steam build. The browser demo is a stripped-down version with simplified visuals and limited content.

How you play

Tag

Pass the nightmare on. Catch a Runner to trade places.

Hunt

Run for your life. Hunters make Hunters.

Hunting grounds

Some nightmarish, others fantastical, utterly dreadful or strangely serene.

A hedge corridor at night, gas lamp ahead, trees above the walls.

Hedgemaze

Green, clean, awfully neat. Did you hear that?

A white tiled room with a shallow pool and a skylight.

Poolrooms

Steam, slime, water, terror.

A pale mask at the end of a peeling farmhouse hall.

Farmhouse

Creaking floors, peeling paint, and a storm that threatens to tear the roof off.

A yellow room with a stained drop ceiling and buzzing fluorescent light.

Backrooms

Abandoned. Still lit. Twisting. Looping. Definitely abandoned.

A stone dungeon corner with hanging chains and a skull.

Dungeon

Stone, rust, chains. No way out. And the skulls...

A red fleshy tunnel with a dark valve ahead.

Bio

In the belly of the beast. But not alone.

Development build. Some frames include the HUD or bots.

Hunters

The host picks everybody's new nightmare from this gallery of ghouls.

Horizon

X-Ray

Runners become visible through walls and obstacles.

Woodsman

Trail

Draws directional trails left behind by runners.

Eclipse

Darkness

A blinding darkness envelops and blinds runners who get too close.

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BSOD

Nearby runners will lock up with fear.

Boots

Gaze

Stare at a runner for 10 seconds to catch them. Runners staring back can freeze you in place.

Imposter

Disguise

Take on the appearance of a runner. When the timer runs out your true nature is revealed.

Pulse

Sound Warp

Warps the auditory perception of runners.

Landgnasher

Wall Breaker

Aim at a wall and activate this ability to destroy it - clearing a new path.

Browser demo available now · Full game 26 October 2026

Lurk around and find out.

Play free browser demo Wishlist on Steam

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