Tiny Frontier
Hide as anything. Paint it to match. The whistle will give you away anyway. A multiplayer prop hunt where Hiders disguise as world objects and hand-paint their camouflage, while Hunters sweep the level with scanners, washers, and capture tools to drag them out. Up to 16 players.
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PropHunt is a multiplayer game of hide-and-seek where the hiders are the scenery - and the scenery fights back with a paintbrush.
When a round starts, players are split into a small pack of Hunters and a crowd of Hiders. Hiders get a head start to vanish into the level; Hunters are released to find them before the clock runs out.
Become the furniture - then make it perfect
Look at any prop in the world and become it. A crate, a barrel, a lamp - your character disappears and the object takes its place. But a stock disguise only gets you so far. PropHunt lets you paint your prop by hand:
- Brush real color across the whole object - strokes flow continuously over edges and seams, so you can blend a disguise into its surroundings instead of standing out.
- Tune the surface per stroke - shine, glow, and self-lit highlights are baked into each stroke, so a glossy red dab and a matte blue one can live on the same prop.
- Steal colors with the eyedropper - sample the exact paint off nearby scenery (or another player's prop) and reproduce it precisely.
The better you blend, the longer you survive. But you
The whistle always tells
Every Hider is on a timer. Periodically â whether you like it or not - your prop lets out a loud, 3D-positional whistle that echoes across the level, giving Hunters a direction to triangulate from. You get a brief private warning before it fires, just enough time to reposition. No disguise stays hidden forever. The whistle keeps every round tense and moving toward a finish.
Hunt with the right tool
Hunters don't just swing blindly. They carry a kit built to expose hiders:
- Scanner - fire off a detective-vision pulse that ripples out across nearby props, lighting up anything suspicious.
- Pressure Washer - blast a continuous spray to strip
- Decoy - bait and misdirect the hiders you're chasing.
Tag a hider and they're caught - frozen and out of the round. But every tool is rate-limited and every catch is server-confirmed, so it's down to your eyes and your aim, not spam.
Built for online play
- Up to 16 players per match over Steam.
- Server-authoritative rounds - disguises, whistles, scans, and tags are all validated on the server, so what you see is what everyone sees.
- Drop-in lobby flow - jump from menu to lobby to match and back between rounds.
- A clean Hide - Seek - results loop with a shared, synced match timer.
Disguise. Paint. Whistle. Run. Repeat.
