KAKURENBO: Hide and Seek
Hide and seek in a nighttime ruin.
ABOUT
About This Game
KAKURENBO: Hide and Seek is a first-person 3D horror adventure rendered in a hand-drawn 2.5D style. You play as an elementary school student exploring an eerie abandoned building on the edge of a Japanese town.
What started as a game of hide and seek with friends takes a turn: the friends never come back, and something's presence grows stronger in the dim ruin. A short game with light puzzle-solving and four different endings.
KEY FEATURES
Key Features
Hand-Drawn 2.5D Graphics
Explore the ruin in three dimensions through a distinctive 2.5D style built from hand-drawn illustrations.
Restricted First-Person View
Limited visibility and unsettling ambient sound heighten the sense of confinement and tension.
Light Puzzle-Solving
Gentle puzzle elements make the game approachable even for horror game beginners.
Four Endings
Your actions and exploration lead to one of several different endings.
STORY
Story
The protagonist visits an abandoned building with friends to make it their secret hideout and starts a game of hide and seek. But the friends never come back, leaving the protagonist to explore the dim ruin alone.
GAME INFORMATION
Game Information
- Genre
- Adventure, Indie
- Platform
- Steam / Windows
- Release Date
- 2025-06-19
- Players
- 1人
- Play Time
- 30 minutes – 1 hour
- Languages
- Japanese / English / German / Portuguese (Brazil) / Russian / Chinese (Simplified) / French / Ukrainian / Spanish (Latin America) / Turkish / Chinese (Traditional) / Korean
- Developer
- nobisiko games
- Publisher
- nobisiko games