1. Create or join
Open the play page, enter a nickname, then create a private invite room, paste a room code, or use an optional public lobby for quick-join tests.
Rules and controls
How to play ChromaHide
ChromaHide is an original third-person multiplayer camouflage hide-and-seek game for browser play. Create a room, invite friends, hide by matching the map, and replay fast rounds.
2. Hide or seek
When the host starts, one player becomes the seeker and everyone else becomes a hider. A short role reveal explains your objective before the round begins.
3. Win the round
The seeker wins by catching every hider. Hiders win if at least one hider survives until the seeking timer ends.
Match flow
From lobby to replay
Lobby
Players wait in a private room. The host can copy the invite link, adjust simple settings, and start when enough players are ready.
Role reveal
Each player sees whether they are a hider or seeker, plus a one-line objective so nobody enters the round confused.
Hiding phase
Hiders get a short setup window to move, choose material, sample surfaces, rotate, freeze, and pick a convincing hiding spot.
Seeking phase
The seeker is released, tag and scan actions become active, and hiders must decide whether to stay still or panic move.
Round result
The result screen shows who won, who survived, who was caught, and clear next actions like Play Again or Back to Lobby.
Replay loop
Play Again keeps the same room, resets player states, and rotates seeker when appropriate so groups can keep playing.
Hider role
Blend into the world and survive
Hiders should feel like they are creating a disguise, not just clicking a color button. Material choice, surface sampling, body rotation, and pose control all matter.
- Look around the 3D map and choose a hiding location near a matching material.
- Use material swatches for grass, concrete, wood, carpet, sand, or shadow.
- Sample a nearby surface when the crosshair shows a valid material prompt.
- Rotate or align your character near walls, crates, panels, and floor zones.
- Freeze or hold pose to stop accidental movement and improve your visual disguise.
- Moving makes you easier to notice. Good camouflage helps, but never makes you invisible.
Seeker role
Search, scan, and tag suspicious players
The seeker wins by reading the map. Look for movement, silhouettes, shadows, mismatched colors, and players who chose the wrong pose for their hiding spot.
- Move through the map in third person and inspect colored zones, walls, crates, and corners.
- Tag only when you are close enough. The server confirms whether a tag succeeds.
- Use scan when stuck. It gives vague nearby feedback, not a perfect arrow to a hider.
- Watch the hiders remaining count and timer so the final seconds feel tense.
- Every successful catch updates the round state for all players.
Controls
- Move with WASD or arrow keys.
- Click the 3D view for pointer lock, then look around with the mouse. Escape exits pointer lock or opens the in-game menu.
- Hiders change material with 1 grass, 2 concrete, 3 wood, 4 carpet, 5 sand, and 6 shadow.
- Hiders use sample, pose, freeze, and rotate controls to line up with the environment.
- Seekers tag nearby hiders with Space or a mouse click.
- Seekers press E or use the scan button for a cooldown-based pulse that gives vague movement feedback.
- Mobile browsers show a virtual movement pad, touch camera look, and large action buttons. Landscape is recommended.