Planned Release Date: Oct 26, 2026

About This Game

Record your scream. It becomes part of the game.

Your Friends vs Hidebehind captures your real voice before the run starts. When something takes you, your scream plays back for everyone. Every group sounds different. Every ending is personal to you and your group.

Turn and look. Or it takes you.

The Hidebehind is inevitable. It is present in every shadow, every sound, every corner of the forest. It will always find you. It will lock onto you and you will freeze. The world will go dark, tendrils will creep in from every edge of your screen, and your only way out is to turn and face it before your nerve runs out. While you're paralyzed, it plays back one of your taken friends' screams. Distorted. Your friend might still be there, somewhere, on a different plane of existence. Nerve beats luck... but only for a moment.

The forest doesn't show everyone the same thing.

Explore a procedurally generated forest that's never the same twice. Find the keys. Reach the bunker. The Hidebehind doesn't reveal itself the same way to every player at the same time, and not everyone may be seeing what you're seeing.

The taken are still there, hanging on.

When you're taken, you cross over as a Spectre. Move freely, phase through doors, tag items for your team with Item Vision, and build charge to manifest back. Your friends still need you. The forest just changed the rules.

Something is already in there with you.

Landmarks. Fake cabins. Found notes from people who didn't make it. Cosmic residue at every take site, with your teammates' screams echoing inside. The longer you stay, the more the forest remembers you were there.

1-6 players. Online co-op. Procedurally generated. Proximity voice chat built in.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains psychological horror themes and tense situations in which player characters may be pursued and suddenly “taken” by a supernatural entity.

There is no gore, no visible blood, and no graphic depictions of violence. When a player is taken, the event is implied rather than shown.

The game features dark environments, suspenseful audio design, and sudden disappearance events that may be frightening to some players.

Players can record short custom “shout” audio clips that are played when their character is taken. These recordings are entirely user-generated and may contain unpredictable content. Online multiplayer includes proximity voice chat.