Intruder: Hide & Seek – Review

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It’s been a long week, so what better way to wind-down than head off to a second-home to spend the weekend. It’s been a while due to some construction work being done but playing as Ben, you accompany your chronically ill sister Irene, in the car with your parents as you finally arrive with a short conversation explaining about the Pani…. PIPES! being fitted.

There’s a tutorial in place which introduces you to the games straightforward first-person mechanics, after picking up a few items to help lay the table ready for dinner, you then join Irene in a game of hide & seek, where you have to find the key, sneak back past her and unlock the door to escape the library. While it’s a long tutorial in the grand scheme of things, it does a good job of showcasing everything you’ll encounter, including a “panic” mini-game where you hit LT in time with the peak of your heartrate to calm down, something that I never encountered again throughout my entire playthrough.

After dinner and half-hour to play, it’s off to bed, but you’re soon interrupted by your sister on her Walkie-talkie who can’t sleep and want’s some company. You head around the terrace into her bedroom to find her peering through the door listening to your parents talking, with your Dad heading off to “check out the new installation”. Curious to what it is, you follow and after sneaking past your Dad, find a Panic-Room downstairs in the garage.

While inside, you and your sister look through the camera feeds surrounding the house, to find your Mum and Dad being taken hostage by three ominous characters, a guy in a deer mask, a hulk-like brute and a female hacker. It’s time to play hide & seek as a matter of life and death, not just for yourself but your family too,