🎉 PeekaBlock is out
After a very long time spent painting ourselves and standing perfectly still in front of each other, PeekaBlock is now in Early Access. Thank you for waiting. And to everyone who played the public playtest — thank you for the bug reports, the screenshots, and the deeply cursed disguises.
🧱 What this game actually is
You are a block. Hiders stick cubes onto their own body, paint every piece, strike a pose and try to pass as scenery. Hunters walk around shooting anything that looks slightly wrong.
It is hide and seek, except the hiding is arts and crafts and the seeking is trust issues.
You will get found. You will also, at some point, watch a hunter walk right past you while you are a very convincing chair. That second thing is what the whole game is for.
🎨 Build your disguise
- Snap shapes onto your body, resize them, rotate them, round them off.
- Paint every piece — match the wall behind you, or invent something nobody has ever seen.
- Group, copy and paste whole chunks of your masterpiece instead of moving one cube at a time.
- Pick a body shape and size, strike a pose, and hold completely still.
- Climb walls, pull yourself over overhangs, get into places nobody thinks to check. Almost nobody looks up.
🔫 Or hunt them
- You forge your own weapon. Build it, paint it, carry it.
- PEW PEW or BONK — take the gun, or get personal with melee.
- Build your own hunter too — the body and the weapon are both yours to make.
- Then study the room and work out which barrel is breathing.
👻 Getting caught is not the end
When you go down you come back as a ghost made of your own head — your paint, your cubes, the entire build you spent the round on. Every ghost is different, because every ghost is the thing you made. Fly it around, watch the rest of the match, and throw bananas, tomatoes and paint bombs at the people who can still lose.
🗺️ Eight maps
Pirate Cove, Zoo, Battlefield, Egyptian Temple, PeekaHouse, Big Kitchen, PeekAttic and Alien — each with its own music, so you can tell where you are with your eyes closed. Which, as a hunter, is sometimes the strategy.
There is a RANDOM MAP button too, and it tries not to hand you the same map five times running.
🎮 Two ways to play
- Hide & Seek — hunters against a room full of hiders. Build, blend, hold your nerve.
- Infected — one patient zero starts the outbreak, and every hider caught respawns as a hunter. Survive the swarm.
Lobbies run from 2 to 14 players, with voice chat and text chat built in.
🏆 Then everyone finds out
Rounds end with a Reveal — everybody gets to see where the hiders actually were, which is where you learn that the "rock" you walked past nine times was a person.
Then the gallery: every creation from the round, side by side, with a like button for the ones that earned it. Winning is good. Doing something everyone remembers is better.
There are 24 achievements as well, including one for surviving a whole round on paint alone with no blocks at all. Good luck with that one.
🚧 What Early Access means
The core game is here and very playable. It is also version 0.1.0, and that will show: expect bugs, rough edges, and a few buttons greyed out because they are not built yet.
We expect to be in Early Access for around three months. On the way:
- Steam Workshop — share what you make, play what everyone else makes.
- Build your own maps, your own hiders, your own poses.
- More shapes, materials and building tools.
- More maps, more modes, more customisation.
- Lobby and matchmaking improvements, balance, optimisation and polish everywhere.
Cactus Courtyard, Candy and Plaster Gallery are off the rotation for now while we finish the newer maps. They are not gone, just resting.
💬 Tell us everything
No log files to dig up, no folders to zip, nothing technical to attach:
- Hit Report Issue in the pause menu (Esc) — it opens a short form.
- Or come say hi on Discord — the icon is right there in the main menu.
Tell us what broke, what felt bad, and what made you laugh. That last one matters more than you would think.
🫡 One last thing
Play with friends if you can. This game is at its best when someone is wheezing on voice chat because they are pretending to be a lamp.
Thank you for being here on day one. Now go hide.
— The PeekaBlock team