About This Demo

Prop hunt, but the hunter drives a lawnmower. Disguise yourself as anything from a safety cone to a giant toilet, hold still, and hope they don't look twice. Get caught and come back as a mower or a ghost. Free: online lobbies of up to 6, or solo against AI props.

HIDE as anything

When the round starts, everyone runs into the garden as themselves. Pick a prop and you become it on the spot: a cardboard box among real boxes, a compost bin by the shed, a safety cone in a row of cones, or something absurd like a giant basketball hoop. Duck into the wheat and corn, copy the prop you're standing next to, climb the shed, and lock in place when the mower comes past.

HUNT on a ride-on mower

The mowers drive the lawn looking for anything that moves. Dash, hop off ramps, lob a lawn dart for an area stun, and ground-pound on a big landing to knock every prop nearby flat. The blade only cuts while you're moving, and the lawn keeps a stripe everywhere you've been. Guess wrong and it costs you: clip the wrong bin and you lose speed; clip a decoy a player dropped and you're stunned in front of everyone.

SHOW OFF to score

Hiding wins the round, but props only score while a mower can see them: the closer it is and the more you move in its view, the faster your score climbs. Taunt under its nose, hold for a big taunt worth triple, and keep one zap for when the blade is about to reach you.

THE GARDEN is the lobby

Host or join and you're standing in a back garden with your friends, weed whackers in hand. Bonk them flat (and their hat off), turn into a prop and zap them, play catch with the plushie, volunteer in the mower circle, and put a track on the jukebox. Then the host yanks the Big Mower's cord twice, and it charges straight through the fence and into the match.

Harvest Farm

Thanksgiving on a farm at sunset: a red barn and silos, feast tables, a pumpkin patch, an orchard and fields of corn, with a combine harvester working the wheat beyond the fence. Hide as a hay bale among the hay bales, or as a giant pumpkin pie on the feast table.

Features

• No group online? Play anyway: solo against AI props with six behaviours, plus a Daily Chaos run with its own leaderboard.
  
• Online lobbies for up to 6 through Steam: friend invites, five-letter join codes, password-protected lobbies, plus LAN by IP.
  
• Your rules: Infected or Elimination, how many mowers, rounds, hide and hunt timers, what caught props become (mowers, ghosts or their own pick), how often props may change disguise, and mutators like Low Gravity, Caffeinated and Tiny Props.
  
• Caught isn't finished: come back on a mower, or as a ghost who honks, spooks the real props and haunts a mower's steering.
  
• Water Fight: props lob water balloons (three a round) and mowers carry a water gun with a small tank. A soaking covers your screen for a few seconds, and nobody is stunned. On by default; the host can turn it off.
  
• Co-op: up to four players hide together from a mower the game drives, which only knows what it can see and hear. You can play it alone too.
  
• Proximity voice that comes out of your prop, pitched to its size; Loud Lawn puts everyone on open mic. Mute anyone in the lobby, and turn on streamer mode to hide names and the lobby code.
  
• Garden Toys both sides can use: sprinklers, leaf piles, a paddling pool and things to knock over.
  
• Kill-cams, a Play of the Round you can save as a GIF, and thirteen awards.
  
• The garden casino: slot machines and a fortune wheel that pay out coins or a perk for your next match, like a once-a-match mower ultimate. Loot eggs hide on both maps every round.
  
• The Harvest Festival, until 30 Nov: turkey piñatas roam the garden, harvest disguises join the props, and Turkey Hunt arrives in Thanksgiving week.
  
• Wear something stupid: 14 characters and over 30 props to wear as a hat, from a traffic cone to a flamingo to an upside-down bucket, plus hair dye. Hats wobble as you move and fly off when you're caught. All earned by playing, never bought.

What the full game adds

Eleven arenas instead of two, lobbies of up to 40, four mowers, a dog to play fetch with in the garden, the Map Maker with Steam Workshop sharing, the Egg Hunt, and Steam achievements. The demo is its own Steam app, so demo lobbies only match with other demo players.