
These games offer a unique way to think deeply about how we relate to each other to the games people play. While many games include characters to interact with, some are specifically designed to make relationships a central element. The fun is often as much about the conversations (and arguments) that happen in the room as what’s happening on the screen. Along with team work the games on this list use the fact that the players are all sitting next to each other. These games can play a bit-part in raising children to be magnanimous in victory and generous in defeat. Raucous, unbounded, exuberant all-age, competitive fun is something video games are known for.
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When we wrote the Taming Gaming book we packed the second half with full colour game ‘recipes’ as a resource for parents and families. 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.
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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.
