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Scare or be scared in this FREE adrenaline-pumping multiplayer game full of hijinks and mischief! Set traps, cast spells, and scare the living hell out of your opponent to win!

Hide and Shriek is a multiplayer, horror and first-person game developed and published by Funcom.
Released on October 19th 2017 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 5,238 reviews of which 4,324 were positive and 914 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Hide and Shriek into these genres:

Multiplayer Horror First-Person Action Competitive Funny Atmospheric Psychological Horror Co-op Thriller Mystery Psychological Strategy Memes Illuminati VR Singleplayer Indie Adventure

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 64 Bit/ Windows 8 64 Bit/ Windows 10 64 Bit
  • Processor: Core i5 processor or equivalent
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel Iris HD5200 pro or equivalent
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

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July 2023
Unfortunately the game is dead, the devs are no longer working on it even though it has great potential. There could be added more maps, spells, customizable masks. I really recommend this game but I advise playing with a friend else you are going to grow a mighty beard waiting to find a game.
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June 2018
Even when this game starts to be repetitive, It's still enjoyable. Game mechanics is very easy - gather orbs, set traps and scare your opponent. How to win? One match has ten minutes. Both of you have to collect points. The winner is the one who has more points or scare opponent three times in a row. Positives: + graphics + game mechanics + idea + Free to Play + bonus content for The Secret World Negatives: - when opponent leaves, you will lose all gathered points in current match - despite It is free to play, there is low number of players Hide your ass and Shriek your opponent's pants off! My rating: 7/10
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Oct. 2016
A great game! Set traps for your invisible human opponent, if they set off the trap you get bonus points! Take orbs of your color to your pedestal (which randomly teleports), but be careful your enemy can see the orb floating as you take it around! Collect runes in a specific order to create specific spells. Or just collect runes, you can't collect runes for a spell order that doesn't exist, so collect away to unlock new descriptions in your grimoire! Less importantly, each round you collect points towards your level. Your level doesn't help win matches, but unlocks new mascot accessories to dress your mascot called a shriek. Cons: Only 1 board, but this board is stuffed with explorables and packed to perfection! Pros: Endless fun for any individuals of any rank!
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Oct. 2016
Fun AND Scary game. There are heaps of different spells, traps, to beat your opponent. someimes the game gets really intense haha. Though It takes awhile to find an opponent,maybe because there aren't many people playing this game. I recommend that everyone plays this game, so fuunnn
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Oct. 2016
tl;dr version: Is this the kind of game you'll play for ages and have ranked tournaments with months from now? No. Is it $5 worth of Halloween entertainment for the next month or so? Absolutely! Hide and Shriek is a very well balanced 1v1 scarematch game where you have to either outscore or outscare (or ideally both) your opponent. The fact that resources are randomly distributed - even the runes you use to craft spells are randomly chosen at the start of the match - means that there's no one preferred location or ideal loadout you can use. Having to continually scramble about looking for resources and never quite having the right spell components in place keeps it from being too comfortable at any point. (It is admittedly true that sometimes the RNG blesses you with abundant resources of exactly the right kind for your strategy but you can never count on this being true.) The way the match feels will vary wildly depending on the chosen tactics of the two participants. For example, two people who enjoy turtling or ambushing will feel very lonely and a bit silly after a while if they don't switch tactics. But this is part of the appeal of the game. It prioritizes thinking on your feet and making use of what's available and adapting to your opponent rather than twitch reflex competition. The benefit from skill plateaus quickly - beyond a basic knowledge of how the game works that's required to compete at all, greater skill simply doesn't give you the overwhelming advantage it does in other games. You still face the exact same limits as your opponent. While this game does have some jump-scare elements, I've found it's pretty rare to be totally surprised. It's more often an "oh **** I hit a trap nooooo" and then the other player finishes me off while I'm stunned. The fact that you're able to strike back on equal terms suppresses a lot of the overwhelming sensation of some jump scare games. To get back to the tl;dr, yeah, this is probably not a game I'm going to play for more than a couple of weeks around halloween. But I definitely feel I'm going to get my money's worth from it.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Hide and Shriek is free to play on Steam.

Hide and Shriek is not on sale because is already free to play on Steam.

Hide and Shriek received 4,324 positive votes out of a total of 5,238 achieving a rating of 8.01.
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Hide and Shriek was developed and published by Funcom.

Hide and Shriek is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Hide and Shriek is not playable on MacOS.

Hide and Shriek is not playable on Linux.

Hide and Shriek is a multi-player game.

Hide and Shriek features PvP mode where you can test your skills against other players.

There is a DLC available for Hide and Shriek. Explore additional content available for Hide and Shriek on Steam.

Hide and Shriek does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Hide and Shriek does not support Steam Remote Play.

Hide and Shriek does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.

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Hide and Shriek
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8.0
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Developer
Funcom
Publisher
Funcom
Release 19 Oct 2017
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