Paint yourself invisible
Unpainted, you're an obvious lump. Coat matched, only your eyes are left. Your paint is a coat you carry, not a costume that updates - walk off the surface you painted for and you're a walking mistake.
Hide in plain sight.
You're a small blob of wet paint loose in a world of patrols, watchtowers and locked exits. No gun, no dash, no takedown. Your only trick is your own color.
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See it move
The whole game
Camouflage is the mechanic
Eyedrop the ground. Paint your body to match it. The world stops seeing you. Every surface is real, sampleable color - grass tufts, road lines, cobble grout, a pool of lamplight - and your coat is measured against it per pixel, in perceptual color space. Blending in is a craft, not a stat.
How it plays
Four seconds each. All of it real.
Every loop below is the running game - the same per-pixel color matching, the same wall-clipped guard vision, the same paint physics. Nothing is animated to look like the game; it is the game.
Outsmart, never outfight
A sentinel sweeps the lane and passes right over you. Guards grow suspicious, investigate, then give chase - and a countdown makes them sharper the longer you take. You can't outrun a chase. You can re-blend and watch it lose you.
Your coat is only good where you painted it
Perfect on the gallery's floor canvas. Absurd two feet later on bare marble. Camouflage is a decision about where you're standing, which is what makes re-coating on the move the real skill.
Take the hiding online
One player sweeps a fog-locked arena with an eraser. Everyone else paints themselves into the scenery and holds their nerve - throwing rocks to stun, hosing out fake cover, and whistling to taunt.
The cast
One blob. Five ways to get caught.
Each hunter reads a different thing about you, so each one has to be beaten differently. Every portrait below is drawn by the game's own code - this is exactly what walks the maze.
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You
The blob
A palmful of wet paint with eyes. Slow, squishy, and completely defenseless - but you can be any color you can find.
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Sentinel
Sees color
Walks a patrol and looks. Match the ground under you and its gaze slides right off. Get the shade wrong and its suspicion fills.
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Tracker
Smells paint
A hound that does not care how well you're painted. It hunts the trail of wet footprints you left getting here.
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Profiler
Reads shape
Color-blind, and useless to lie to with paint. It measures how much of you is covered - so against this one, the answer is cover, not shade.
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Listener
Hears you move
No eyes. No face. It hears the noise you make crossing loud ground, so the counter is not camouflage - it's walking somewhere quieter.
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The Seeker
Another player
In multiplayer one of you gets the ink coat, the eyepatch and an eraser. Same body as everyone else. That's the whole problem.
And the rest
Twenty-two levels of it getting worse
Fog of war. Night levels hide the map and the patrols. Lamps, crystals and glowing mushrooms pool light to show you the way.
Escalating hazards. Searchlights, security cameras, rotating sprinklers, and sudden downpours that wash your coat clean off.
Improvised tools. Throw a rock to lure or stun. Hose paint onto the floor to manufacture your own cover.
A 22-level campaign. One clean new idea per level, sunlit gardens through to a crystal-cavern finale, each with a 1-3 star score to chase.
Build & share. A full in-game level editor with a tile-design studio, and Steam Workshop publishing.
Play your way. Keyboard-and-mouse or gamepad everywhere, remappable, with a scheme that adapts on the fly.
Become the floor
Blotch is in development for Windows, Linux and macOS. The Steam page goes up before release - when it does, a wishlist is the single most useful thing you can do for it.
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