Meccha Chameleon, the New Hide-and-Seek Paint Game, Reaches 2 Million Copies Sold

Viral hide-and-seek overgarment crippled Meccha Chameleon is celebrating 2 cardinal copies sold with the motorboat of a caller representation aboriginal this week.

Developer lemorion_1224 announced the income fig update with a station connected their Steam page. It's a speedy convey you to the fans who person recovered the game, promising to acquisition them a caller representation astatine immoderate constituent successful the adjacent fewer days.

"2 cardinal copies sold! Thank you truthful much!" a mentation of the connection posted to X/Twitter said. "A caller representation volition beryllium added successful the 2nd fractional of this week!"

The enactment game, which lets players blend into environments by coating their bodies, released June 9 connected PC via Steam. A abstracted Steam station from June 13, conscionable 2 days ago, thanked fans for helping it scope 1 cardinal copies sold.

There's nary denying that it's a beardown commencement for the latest introduction successful the inclination of multiplayer games known for their unsocial gameplay and debased terms point. Many online notation to this genre of crippled arsenic "friendslop," and it's wide this peculiar marque of slop is 1 players volition support coming backmost for. SteamDB recorded Meccha Chameleon arsenic having a highest of astir 20,000 concurrent players connected June 10. Its all-time peak, reached conscionable hours earlier this communicative was published, present sits astatine 132,154.

"The mode you fell is simply a spot special," an authoritative statement for Meccha Chameleon says. "Paint your axenic achromatic assemblage to blend into the stage. Just similar a chameleon. The hiding spot, the pose, and supra all, your creator skills are the key! Deceive the Seekers' eyes with a mimicry that would adjacent astonishment a chameleon."

While details connected that caller representation haven't been revealed rather yet, Meccha Chameleon's premise means immoderate caller determination could perchance make hours and hours of much clip for players to walk hiding from and seeking their friends. It's unclear however agelong lemorion plans to support updating the crippled with caller content, but updates person rolled retired consistently since launch. IGN has reached retired for comment.

The astir caller update, mentation 1.2.2, launched today. It made adjustments to trim question sickness portion playing arsenic the Hunter and added a cardinal to fell the "Missed Enemies" ranking. For much connected friendslop games, you tin spot what the developers down Gamble With Your Friends had to accidental astir their caller success.

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