Paint Hide & Seek

A hide-and-seek game where concealment is a colour problem. You can paint yourself to match a surface, and a seeker sweeps the area looking for anything that does not belong — so hiding means finding a surface large enough to disappear against and then resisting the urge to move. The tension comes from the fact that a perfect colour match is not enough. Movement gives you away regardless of colour, and the seeker's route changes between rounds, so a spot that was safe once can be the first place checked next time. That forces an actual decision each round rather than a memorised hiding place, and it makes the rounds short and repeatable in the right way. Each one takes two or three minutes, there is no punishment for losing beyond the round ending, and the levels add complications gradually — patterned surfaces that are harder to match, multiple seekers, time limits on painting. It is a light game with one clean idea, it plays with taps on a phone, and it runs on anything. A good few minutes rather than a long evening.