Four trophies at the 2026 Golden Joystick Awards: Meccha Chameleon leaves with as many awards as Resident Evil Requiem, crowned “Ultimate Game of the Year”. The first costs €6.15 on Steam and has you paint your body to blend into the scenery. The winners were published on November 11, 2026, notably by Gaming Trend.
Meccha Chameleon, a Japanese hide-and-seek game, had never had a place on our site. Here is what it is, what it won, what its player numbers say about it, and how to play it in a group.
Meccha Chameleon: a hide-and-seek game where you paint your body
Two teams face off: the seekers win if they find every hider before time runs out. Hiders start with an entirely white body and paint it to match the scenery. According to the Steam page, everything comes down to three things: the hiding spot, the pose and drawing skill.
On Steam, the developer and publisher is the account lemorion_1224. Sources disagree on the size of the team: AllKeyShop describes a single creator, Wikipedia names a second contributor, Haganeiro, for the system and effects. The Switch 2 version page names a company, LEMORION Co., Ltd.
| Item | What the sources say |
|---|---|
| Genre | Online hide-and-seek, seekers versus hiders |
| Steam release | June 9, 2026 on the Steam page (June 10 according to Wikipedia and Game Developer) |
| Platforms | Windows on Steam; Nintendo Switch 2 since September 9, 2026 |
| Price in France | €6.15 on Steam, as of November 13, 2026 |
| Languages | 13 languages supported on Steam, including French |
| Players per match | 2 to 10 recommended on the Steam page; up to 24 according to Nintendo and Wikipedia |
Two trophies from the public, two from a jury
Steam Deck HQ reports 31% of the votes for Best Multiplayer Game and 32% for Best Self-Published Indie Game. The other two trophies, Streamers’ Choice and Developers’ Choice, are labeled “critically chosen” by Gaming Trend, meaning picked by a jury with no public vote. Bleeding Cool gives the same list of winners.
| Trophy | How it was decided | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Best Multiplayer Game | Public vote | 31% |
| Best Indie Game, Self-Published | Public vote | 32% |
| Streamers’ Choice | Picked by a jury | not published |
| Developers’ Choice | Picked by a jury | not published |
Meccha Chameleon did not sweep everything. The PC Game of the Year trophy went to Crimson Desert, and Best Indie Game to Valheim. Resident Evil Requiem wins four awards (including Ultimate Game of the Year, Console Game of the Year and Best Lead Performer) and Capcom, named studio of the year, is tied to seven trophies in total.
No source says why Meccha Chameleon, at €6.15, carries so much weight in these votes. The Steam page does put streaming up front: streamers can, according to it, easily host matches open to their viewers. That fits with a Streamers’ Choice trophy, though no source links the two.
340,000 players in June, 5,700 in November
Meccha Chameleon’s peak of concurrent players on Steam was around 340,000, in June: 340,534 according to DLCompare and AllKeyShop, 339,272 according to Raijin. On sales, Game Developer reported on August 12 that the game reached 20 million copies in a little over two months. Raijin, which estimates its Steam figures separately, counts about 16.5 million: the two do not measure the same thing.
| Month of 2026 | Peak concurrent players (Raijin) |
|---|---|
| June | 339,272 |
| July | 141,595 |
| August | 31,387 |
| September | 13,362 |
| October | 8,878 |
| November (as of the 12th) | 5,689 |
As of November 12, the November monthly peak is about 1.7% of June’s (5,689 versus 339,272).
Playing in a group: host, private server, Switch 2
Meccha Chameleon launches from a server created by a player, the host. According to the Steam page, a non-private server accepts any player; set it to private and you keep the table to friends. The maximum number of players depends on the host’s connection, and the page recommends 2 to 10 players. The Nintendo page lists 1 to 24 online players on Switch 2.
On PC, the announced minimum configuration fits in three lines: 64-bit Windows 10, an Intel Core i5 processor and a DirectX 11 or 12 compatible graphics card. For four friends, everyone buys their own copy: €24.60 in total on Steam, at the November 13 price.
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