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Meccha Chameleon review
Even with its blemishes, Meccha Chameleon's game of competitive camouflage is a multiplayer experience that exceeds its friendslop trappings.
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What is it? Hide and seek with hand-painted camouflage.
Reviewed on: NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super, Intel Core i7 14700KF, 32 GB RAM
I want to apologize in advance to anyone who might find themselves in a Meccha Chameleon lobby with me.
I'm sorry for turning our casual game of manhunt into a harrowing contest of wits. I'm sorry for painting myself into each map's least-conspicuous corners. I'm sorry for imitating the surrounding stonework's surface texture so well that I achieve a maddening invisibility. I'm sorry for being that bush, and that party decoration, and that saddle on that horse statue.
I'm sorry that Meccha Chameleon is the special sort of game that can remind me how much fun I can have being a top-tier bastard.
Meccha Chameleon is a delightfully elevated take on hide-and-seek. It's in the spirit of the cherished Prop Hunt gametypes that have graced countless lobbies over the years—but where Prop Hunt has players donning the shapes of preexisting models as camouflage, Meccha Chameleon demands a more manual mode of disguise.
Once the hiding phase begins and you've found a promising spot to stick your featureless marble figure, you have whatever seconds remain to hand-camo yourself with an MS Paint-style brush and eyedropper, making yourself as indistinguishable from your surroundings as time, artistic talent, and strategic positioning will allow. It's a fantastically satisfying ritual—particularly if you have an impish streak.
Since first launching Meccha Chameleon, I've spent my steadily accumulating hours of gametime with the Grinch's sicko grin perpetually plastered on my face. Just as my scampering doll-self is a canvas for slapdash camouflage, Meccha Chameleon's detail-dense maps—bolstered by an already-lively mapmaking community—are themselves a canvas for a higher art: the art of bamboozling.