Intruders: Hide and Seek, everything you need to know

Intruders: Hide and Seek lets you relive your worst childhood nightmares on your PS4. Compatible with VR, this is a stealth game with very good reviews and one of the most awarded of the latest releases. Do you like to play hide and seek?

The tense atmosphere and storyline are the two strengths of Intruders: Hide and Seek, according to all industry experts, fans and reviews. If you are also one of those who values ​​this type of experience and you like stealth games that you can also live as VR – virtual reality -, this is your game, and it is also not an expensive title.

I like the plot of Intruders: Hide and Seek and its staging because the tension is lived – especially if you can enjoy the VR compatibility – and the story easily hooks the player.

The plot is simple and terrifying , easy to be in the childhood nightmares of a good number of gamers : family vacations with your parents and your sister in an old, huge and isolated mansion in the countryside. Night falls and three strangers break into your vacation home, trapping your parents. You -at 13 years old- and your sister are safe in the panic room of the house and with the mission of saving your parents.

With this argument alone there are already several things you can count on that you have in Intruders: Hide and Seek : 

• It is a first-person game : you take on the role of Ben, the eldest son of the family, who has been freed from the evildoers by taking refuge in the panic room.
• Darkness is your great ally , the game takes place in total darkness and even in corners or spaces of almost total darkness.
• Confirmed, it is a pure stealth game : the most important thing is that you save your parents, without being caught by the gang of intruders.
• The setting is predictable -a large house-, but the detail and the quality setting stand out.

Developer

This title was launched in February 2019 exclusively in Spain for PS4 and is compatible with virtual reality peripherals and a VR headset. It should be noted that it is a 100% Spanish work , since it has been fully developed by Tessera Studios. The care, professionalism and drive is felt in the production.

The indie studio was created in Madrid by a group of young Spanish people passionate about video games in 2016. Intruders: Hide and Seek began as a master’s thesis project at U-Tad and has ended up being a dream come true, according to the experts. authors themselves, since this is the first video game published by the studio that hopes, however, to continue developing its own video games: “To show the world our vision of them through the new technologies that appear on the market” , they have confessed .

Intruders datasheet

• Development: Tessera Studios
• Production: Daedalic Entertainment
• Distribution: PlayStation Network
• Price: €19.99
• Players: 1
• Format: download
• Texts: Spanish
• Voices: Spanish

Game versions: offers a double possibility. You can play in a conventional way and also through the immersion that the VR helmet makes possible, being, in the opinion of many experts in the sector, the best way to get all the juice that this interesting production presents.

Music : Hide and Seek

The original soundtrack of this game for PlayStation is largely to blame for its success. It has been taken care of by Xabi San Martín, better known and popular for being the composer and keyboardist for La Oreja de Van Gogh, but who decided to venture to create the soundtrack for Intruders: Hide and Seek.

San Martín joined the project and decided to try a new facet hitherto unexplored by him, after experimenting with the game in its first stage of development. The players point out that the music has been a success, since its notes manage to arouse all kinds of emotions, maintaining a tension that can be felt in the environment , which is undoubtedly what is expected of a stealth game.

Awards

• Fun & Serious Award for being the Best University Project of the year (2016)
• Press Award at the PlayStation Talents (2016)
• PlayStation Talents Award for Best Video Game of the Year (2016).
• Gaming Best Pitch Award at the SXSW 2017 festival.
• Premio Gamer´s Voice Award: Virtual Reality en el festival SXSW 2019.

Hide and Seek

 Although Intruders: Hide and Seek achieves a positive average rating among gamers , to be fair to the reviews of the title, there are also some weak points that you should be aware of to avoid being disappointed.

• Short but intense experience.

The game leaves little time for entertainment: on average, about three hours, although you can extend it more if, in addition to hiding and fulfilling your mission of sounding the alarm, you set yourself the challenge of collecting each and every one of the tracks, instruments and help that comes your way. On the other hand, that the game leaves you wanting more, it is also good news or reward for those responsible.

• predictable routine

If you are used to playing this type of challenge, you will not find any big surprises in its development and although you will be entertained by the hook that the plot provides you, there are gamers who warn that some less routine detail is missed and a little more freshness.

• Limited Capacity Adversaries

The artificial intelligence of the 3 enemies that must be overcome and/or avoided in Intruders: Hide and Seek is not the most developed in history, don’t worry if you are just starting out in this type of challenge, it is easy to avoid their attempts to catch you, but it will be a perfect, fun and exciting challenge and practice.

The recommendation is to try the title especially if you are a fan or want to have an intense experience with your VR peripheral where Intruders: Hide and Seek gets the best reviews and above average quality levels. Make sure your screen and equipment are ready and rediscover how intense and exciting playing hide and seek can be.