
The games in this list challenge our neat conceptions of right and wrong. Whether it's not telling Ellie the truth about her unique response to the infection so she can have a "normal" life in The Last Of Us, lying about who's drugs they are to save a friend in Life Is Strange, deciding not to be honest with friends to save their feelings and avoid confrontation in Oxenfree or rearranging an old man's memory so he thinks he's made it to his dream in To The Moon, telling lies is sometimes the right thing to do.

There are many games where you are challenged to make difficult decisions and some of those put you in situations without power, where the kindest thing to do is to lie. Of course, real life isn't neat and tidy like that. Video games often place you in positions of power, saving the world, righting the wrongs and bringing justice. You can hide in Minecraft (having turned nameplates off), sneak around on public transport in or simply count to 10 while visitors hide in Animal Crossing New Horizons. Open World Hiding: You can use pretty much any open-world game to make your own hiding fun. A twist on this is Here Kitty where one person hides a phone that then makes cat noises until the seeker has found it. There's a hidden object mode in Super Mario Odyssey where you hunt online player's hidden balloons.

Hidden Objects: Or there are hidden object games where the computer hides things that you have to find, like Hidden Folks and Hidden Through Time. Screencheat is a twist on this, where you share the same screen and try to shoot each other, but your characters are invisible. Or games you play online where everyone has their own screen and try to hide from a particular character like in Secret Neighbor. Separate Screens: There games like Mario Chase and Luigi's Ghosthouse in Nintendoland, or Pac-Man Vs where one person has their own screen while the others team up to hunt for them use the main TV screen. 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.
