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Hidden Folks
Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
54 of the 80 reviews raise this.
“Simple, fun and pleasant to look at.”
29 of the 80 reviews raise this.
“Very well planned out scenes, very busy and yet calming with only mouth sounds and no music. Was able to find every item fairly easy but not too much, the longer ones took at most 20 minutes but it was usually within 5.…”
“Details, details, details! I just kept clicking at stuff to see what happens, even after finding all the hidden objects listed at the bottom of the screen. The artwork is great, the man made sound effects are funny and…”
“Cute, chill, fun game. Highly recommend if you like Where's Waldo? The hand drawn art is really neat and the audio is funny and unique.”
25 of the 80 reviews raise this.
“So much detail your eyes will hurt. 10/10 will strain eyes again”
“Simple, fun and pleasant to look at.”
“Cute game. Definitely can get a bit difficult to find things but you can tell a lot of love went into this.”
12 of the 80 reviews raise this.
“Cute game. Definitely can get a bit difficult to find things but you can tell a lot of love went into this.”
“Very well planned out scenes, very busy and yet calming with only mouth sounds and no music. Was able to find every item fairly easy but not too much, the longer ones took at most 20 minutes but it was usually within 5.…”
“Details, details, details! I just kept clicking at stuff to see what happens, even after finding all the hidden objects listed at the bottom of the screen. The artwork is great, the man made sound effects are funny and…”
7 of the 80 reviews raise this.
“Cute little game, good to waste a bit of time on here and there”
10 of the 80 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“So much detail your eyes will hurt. 10/10 will strain eyes again”
6 of the 80 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“This is a solid hidden-object game; I like that each item to find has a little hint associated with it, and the art is all very cute. My only gripe is that there's no way to narrow the search area more than that hint;…”
5 of the 80 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“This is a solid hidden-object game; I like that each item to find has a little hint associated with it, and the art is all very cute. My only gripe is that there's no way to narrow the search area more than that hint;…”
“Super cute, simple, and really fun. Love all the sound details and stuff you can find around the locations. Only downside to me is how overwhelming some of these scenes are. There's SO much going on, all the time!”
3 of the 80 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
3 of the 80 reviews raise this.
Counted across 80 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 96.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“Lower your monitor's brightness before playing this game, I can't see anything anymore. :2016imnotcrying::2016imnotcrying:”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“[h1] Purchase Date: [/h1] 24th of January 2020 - 24/01/2020 [h1] Purchase Value: [/h1] 7.63€ (Base Game + Beach Pack DLC + Mouth Sounds Pack DLC) [h1] PROS & CONS Review: [/h1] PROS: + Game concept. + Casual. + Relaxing. + Visual art. + 10 minute sessions. CONS: - Causes eye…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“An honest hidden gen (no pun intended). Finding all of the people and objects were quite the challenge, albeit a fun one! I enjoyed clicking on random things for the sound effects :3”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Announcing: Hidden Folks 2
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On Tour - out now!
The team and I (Adriaan) are proud to release the On Tour areas as a free update today!! Watch the trailer: I'm especially proud of Celine and Sylvain for once again coming up with hundreds of funny s
Announcing Hidden Folks: On Tour... and pricing changes.
Hey folks! The team and I are super proud to announce a major update to Hidden Folks, launching on June 4th, called On Tour. The update will add 6 (!!) new music themed areas to the game, with more th
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Hidden Object · Casual · Hand-drawn · Indie · Puzzle · Point & Click · Relaxing · Funny · 2D · Singleplayer · Minimalist · Cute (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on Tablet · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Ukra… |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 8 |
| Official site | https://hiddenfolks.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 SP1+ (64-bit) Processor: SSE2 instruction set support Graphics: DX10 (shader model 4.0) or higher. DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 300 MB available space