Then there are games like Witch It designed around this idea of transforming into normal items and hiding in a game world. Fortnite has a great Prop Hunt mode, as does Minecraft. Prop Hunt: There are games with 'Prop Hunt' modes where you can change into the items in the world to hide. At the end, you see a map of where the players had run. One player stands in a crowd of identical people and uses the Wii U gamepad to look around and describe their location to other players, who use the TV to explore and find them. Another great example is Wii U Party, Lost and Found Square mode. Wii Party offers hiding in its Spot the Sneak mode where one player has a secret advantage in the mini-games that the other players have to spot.

The Fruit game in Game & Wario on Wii U has the same mechanics, with one person trying to steal fruit without the other players working out who they are.

Hide In A Crowd: There are games like Spy Party, Thief Town, Hidden in Plain Sight and Buissons, that let you play as a range of characters and then challenge another player to find you amongst a computer-controlled crowd, from what way you move and interact. The games in this list offer digital ways to play hide and seek with a variety of different twists. Running around with a stick pretending to be in the army.

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