Last week saw the release of Meccha Chameleon, a Japanese indie game in which groups of players hide from other players armed with shotguns. The twist over similar prop hunt games (that I've played, anyway) is that you can pose and freely paint your character's body, disguising them within each map's colourful scenery. I had a feeling the idea might catch on – it's the kind of novelty item that makes for good Youtubage. I wasn't expecting it to sell two million copies.

One of the game's loveliest qualities is that, strictly speaking, you don't need to play it to play it. You can just skim through the screenshots of exceptionally skilled or foolish feats of camouflage on Reddit and the Steam forums. Here's a few that made me chuckle.

"The Tourist Trap"

Meccha Chameleon has pretty robust painting tools, allowing the dextrous player to plausibly edit themselves into framed paintings and posters. I fear this is unwise, however, because these artworks naturally draw the eye. It's more about showing off, than fitting in. "BouncingOnItCrazyStyle", you have bounced your last.

"The Shock Jockey"

Mind you, sometimes becoming part of the art can pay off. Nobody would think twice about this horse sculpture's entirely correct anatomy. Thanks, er, "Grandma".

"The Accidentally Left-In Placeholder"

I like this one because it riffs on the classic symptom of AI generated art. "Sizzle_808" is clearly a student of modern pixel-counting trends. It makes me wonder if anybody's thought to make themselves look like older, more wholesome varieties of glitch? I bet I could paint myself to look like some screen-tearing, given enough of a headstart.

"The Underpants Rash"

A straightforward approach from "connor", but I reckon I'd have brushed past this innocently dangling clump of laundry. That said, there is something automatically suspicious about polka dots, a pattern that, I am horrified to learn, was once equated with the bubonic plague.

"The Diminishing Returns"

If guilt by association is a thing, then surely innocence by association is also a thing? That is very clearly an inflatable turtle in the picture, there. As such, the smaller, weirdly mishappen turtle-shaped object next to it must also be an inflatable turtle.

Read more about Meccha Chameleon on Steam. Also, tell me about your favourite hide-and-seek games.