About This Game

Smart Fellas is online hide-and-seek for up to 32 players. Think prop hunt, except nothing is a ready-made prop: you copy the reef itself.

Hide: copy the reef

You're an octopus. You're a Smart Fella. Point at coral, rock, kelp or sand and your skin copies its colours and pattern. Then strike a pose to pass as part of the reef.

Hunt: your own eyes

The divers are the Fart Smellas. They search in first person with spear guns. If one octopus is still free when the clock runs out, the octopuses win.

Eat, or starve

Octopuses must eat: crabs, clams, shrimp. Go too long without food and you starve, so no sitting still all round.

Fight back

Ink the diver and dash, or grab on to a diver's back. Divers: watch your friends' backs. Really watch them.

Nets and rescues

The lobby picks spear gun or net. A netted octopus can be bagged and hidden, but a teammate can free it.

Dark caves

Five maps, two of them dark caves. The torch that finds octopuses also gives the diver away.

A sea that bites

Eels, sharks, jellyfish and more share the water. Some are dangerous.

Two modes

Play Classic. Or play Infected, where every octopus caught comes back as a diver.

Up to 32 players, public games

No friends needed: join a public game from the list, or host one. Invite friends through Steam. Voice chat included.

Make your own maps

Build maps with the free map maker and share them on the Steam Workshop. Play other players' maps and modes.

• Up to 32 players online

• Two modes, five maps

• Windows and Linux

• Videos and streams welcome

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AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

The octopus 3D model and its textures were made with an AI 3D tool (Meshy), then cleaned up, re-rigged and animated by hand. Everything else (the divers, the reef, the sounds and the writing) was made without generative AI. Nothing is generated by AI while you play.