$5 Hide-and-Seek Game Outsells Forza and Destiny 2

"We made it to the monumental milestone." That's developer Lemorion 1224 celebrating Meccha Chameleon crossing one million sales in its first week on Steam, a hide-and-seek game that costs less than a coffee and is currently sitting above both Forza Horizon 6 and Destiny 2 on Valve's global top sellers list. Only Counter-Strike 2 is ahead of it.

The concept is almost absurdly simple. Each match splits players into hiders and seekers. Everyone starts as a plain white figure, something like a clay doll, and hiders pick a spot on the map before pulling up an MS Paint-style toolkit to slather themselves in colours that match the environment. Seekers then hunt them down before the clock runs out. It's Prop Hunt with a creative twist, and that twist is doing serious numbers.

According to SteamDB, Meccha Chameleon peaked at 77,424 concurrent players on June 14. On Twitch, it hit a peak viewership of 127,656 on launch day, June 10, with major streamers picking it up almost immediately. The game has also been pulling in regular updates from the developer, including a much-requested friend invite feature that arrived within days of launch.

2026's Multiplayer Gold Rush

Meccha Chameleon joins a growing list of budget multiplayer games that have broken a million sales this year. Far Far West, Super Battle Golf, and Gamble With Your Friends all hit the same mark earlier in 2026. There's a clear pattern forming: simple premise, low price, easy to convince a group chat to buy in. At $5.99 full price, and currently $4.79 with a 20% launch discount running until June 16, the barrier to entry is basically nonexistent.

I love seeing this happen. Every time a game like this blows up, it reinforces something AAA publishers still struggle to understand: players don't need a $70 price tag and 200 hours of content to have a great time. They need something fun to do with their friends for an evening. Meccha Chameleon isn't trying to be anyone's forever game, and it doesn't need to be. A few hours of painting yourself to look like a brick wall while your friends sprint past you is worth five dollars, full stop.

What's particularly striking is the Twitch performance. Nearly 128,000 peak viewers on day one suggests the game's appeal goes beyond just playing it. Watching someone frantically smear green paint across their character while a seeker closes in is inherently entertaining, and that spectator-friendly quality is clearly fuelling the sales loop. Streamers play it, audiences laugh, audiences buy it, repeat.

The launch discount runs through Tuesday, June 16, so there's still a narrow window to grab it at that $4.79 price point before it ticks back up to $5.99.