Hidden Folks

Released: Feb 15, 2017
Platforms: WindowsmacOSLinux
Last updated: 06 Sep 2026, 22:51 GMT

Updates & announcements

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06 Jun 2026Developer post
Announcing: Hidden Folks 2
Hey folks! Adriaan typing here, on this wholesome day! Hidden Folks 2 was officially announced at Wholesome Direct just now!! Here's the announcement, including a small introduction to the team and I: And as the game will obviously also release on Steam, make sure to wishlist the
Hey folks! Adriaan typing here, on this wholesome day!
Hidden Folks 2 was officially announced at Wholesome Direct just now!! Here's the announcement, including a small introduction to the team and I:
Watch on YouTube
And as the game will obviously also release on Steam, make sure to wishlist the game immediately:
View game page
Hidden Folks 2 looks like and builds upon the original game in every regard: the art style, the miniature landscapes, the gameplay, the cheeky jokes, and the mouth-made sounds. True to the original, the game is all about exploring the little stories scattered throughout each landscape, without time limits or any pressure to score points. The sequel features completely new themes and areas, improved graphical quality, a second (not text!) clue for those in need, lots of new mouth-made sounds, and various quality-of-life improvements.
Our intention is to release Hidden Folks 2 in the first few months of 2027, with at least 3 themes and each with 3 to 5 areas, on desktop, phones, and tablets (and maybe on Nintendo Switch, if there's demand?). I'm not sure all themes and areas from the announce trailer will make it into the release version of the game, but the team and I will continue to work on the game after its release to add more themes and areas (for free) and fix bugs and stuff.
In the meantime:
Make sure to wishlist the game!
We'll demo HF2 at Gamescom in August. See you there maybe?
We'll be looking for testers later this year. Sign up at hiddenfolks.com if you're interested!
We're looking into selling those cool t-shirts again, but haven't set it up yet.
You'll hear from me again when there's something for you to do!
Talk soon,
Adriaan (de Jongh. I'm the studio director at Hidden Folks.)
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18 May 2026Developer post
Don't miss upcoming Hidden Folks news
Hey folks! Game designer Adriaan typing here. It's been a while since you last heard from me and a LOT has happened since the release of Hidden Folks! I released a bunch of other games, had a kid, and more recently co-founded a new studio with the familiar name Hidden Folks to bu
Hey folks!
Game designer Adriaan typing here. It's been a while since you last heard from me and a LOT has happened since the release of Hidden Folks! I released a bunch of other games, had a kid, and more recently co-founded a new studio with the familiar name Hidden Folks to build more playful, accessible, and curiosity-invoking black & white games within The Hidden Folks Universe. We are 4 people now, wild!
… which brings me to the point of this message: we are working on something, and we'll announce it soon. We'll post something here, but if you want to make sure you don't miss the news, sign up here to get an email when we announce or release new Hidden Folks things:
https://hiddenfolks.com
There's also a bit more info on the new company over there... so check it.Can't wait to tell & show you more about what we're working on!!!
- Adriaan
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12 May 2025Developer post
Rift Riff is out now!
Hey folks! Even though many of you are waiting for MORE Hidden Folks (we hear you!) and even though we may soon have more announcements on that (this is nearly turning into a joke, isn't it), Adriaan wanted to mention that he just released Rift Riff!!! It's a very, very different
04 Jun 2020Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Hidden Folks goes On Tour with musical stages and a pricing rethink
Hidden Folks never needed instruments to be musical. This week, the hidden object sketchbook goes On Tour, bringing its quirky vocals to muddy festivals, basement discos and the studio floor. It’s free, too, along with all of Hidden Folks’ previously-released DLC – at the cost of
04 Jun 2020Developer post
On Tour - out now!
The team and I (Adriaan) are proud to release the On Tour areas as a free update today!! Watch the trailer: I'm especially proud of Celine and Sylvain for once again coming up with hundreds of funny stories and interactions. For this update, Celine took over pretty much all level
The team and I (Adriaan) are proud to release the On Tour areas as a free update today!! Watch the trailer:
Watch on YouTube
I'm especially proud of Celine and Sylvain for once again coming up with hundreds of funny stories and interactions. For this update, Celine took over pretty much all level and interaction design from me and, I hate to admit it, probably came up with more inventive interactions than I did! Playing Sylvain and Celine's first draft of the new areas was perhaps the first time I played Hidden Folks without knowing every little detail about it - the closest thing to being a player of the game as opposed to the developer - and I was blown away and laughed out loud all the time. You folks are lucky to be on the player side of this game and I'm super jealous!!!
Pricing changes
As announced a few weeks ago, we decided to include all areas in your original 'Hidden Folks' purchase, including the Beach and the new On Tour areas, for no additional charge. To justify the 3+ years we've been working on Hidden Folks since release, we've increased the price of the game only for new players.
Yeah, to be clear: making the On Tour areas took a team of 3 people and a few part-time others an entire year to make. After the last free update, I got hundreds of comments and emails from folks saying they would have gladly paid for the update. We really, really appreciate that people want to support us, and if you feel that way, here are two things that help:

leave a review on the store page.
tell a friend about Hidden Folks.
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The On Tour areas
I won't spoil too much here but you can be sure to see and interact with all kinds of instuments, bands, weird objects, animations, and, weirdest of all, you'll get to hear the mouth sound music that Martin put together!! It's weird and wild that it kind of works and the tunes are totally stuck in my mind. Some screenshots of the areas:
While illustrator Sylvain Tegroeg drew all those cute little characters and instruments and objects, game designer and artist Celine Veltman did nearly all level and interaction design for the On Tour areas. Martin Kvale made mouth music with our mouth sounds, Bram van Dijk helped us write all the kind-of-funny clues, Mitty Venbrux made the On Tour trailer, and Aran Koning did some nerd stuff for Hidden Folks on Android and Nintendo Switch. I (Adriaan de Jongh) improved the game's interface, fixed bugs, set up store pages, wrote this newsletter, and did countless of other small things. And last but not least: the incredible Hidden Folks community translated the game to 21 languages! I'm so grateful.
New areas in the future?
It's possible that On Tour is the game's final content update. We know you want more; some of you remind me of this every week! But after five years of making Hidden Folks, we also want to make different, weird, new stuff! We hope you can savor the On Tour update. Maybe you can even replay parts of the game you nearly forgot! Regardless, thank you for playing and for enabling our incredible journey!!!
See you around, folks.
Adriaan
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19 May 2020Developer post
Announcing Hidden Folks: On Tour... and pricing changes.
Hey folks! The team and I are super proud to announce a major update to Hidden Folks, launching on June 4th, called On Tour . The update will add 6 (!!) new music themed areas to the game, with more than 70 things to find, new mouth sounds (we even made weird music), new interact
Hey folks!
The team and I are super proud to announce a major update to Hidden Folks, launching on June 4th, called On Tour. The update will add 6 (!!) new music themed areas to the game, with more than 70 things to find, new mouth sounds (we even made weird music), new interactions, and plenty of new clues with mildly amusing or straight up bad jokes.
A couple months after the release of the Beach DLC, we agreed that the pricing model we slid into (a base game with DLCs) didn't feel right. After much discussion and consideration, we decided that we want to come back and unify all areas into a single 'Hidden Folks' purchase while increase the price of the game to justify the 3 years we've been working on the game since release. This means that:

today, the game's price will on average (because currencies are weird) increase by 50–60%.
today or tomorrow or very soon (depending on how fast I can arrange this with Valve) there will be no more DLCs aside from the Mouth Sounds DLC, that will continue to exist.
on June 4th, all players who own Hidden Folks will gain access to both the On Tour and Beach areas with no additional purchases.
Price and business model changes are hard to communicate clearly, so if you have any questions, ask away in the comments or on the forums. It took us a little detour through DLC land before we understood that a single purchase structure is a simpler value proposition, less of a technical hassle in the background, and a couple of emails by really confused customers per week less.
I hope that's clear! Now please feast on these screenshots from the On Tour areas:
Hidden Folks: On Tour - June 4th.
Talk to you soon!
Adriaan
ps: we're still looking for a few folks who want to contribute to translate the new On Tour areas in Hidden Folks! If you're native to Arabic, Vietnamese, Swedish, Finnish, or Czech, please reach out to me! You'll get access to the game before anyone else. Sign up here.
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23 Dec 2019Developer post
The Hidden Folks team is working on something...
10 Dec 2018Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Have You Played Hidden Folks?
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Hidden Folks *bling!* is a hidden object game that’s *whooooosh!* immensely satisfying to play yourself *thwip!* but an absolute nightmare for anyone else to listen to *boing
03 Nov 2018Developer post
We're taking a break from making Hidden Folks
Hey folks. The release of the new Beach areas and game's release on Nintendo Switch mark the end of the fourth year of making Hidden Folks. Before I started working on Hidden Folks, I had designed a few games and programmed several prototypes, but I had never programmed an entire
31 Oct 2018Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Halloween 2018 Special: Some lovely games!
Video games, you may have noticed, are often a little bit horrid. All sorts of naughtiness, and a distinct lack of people just being kind to one another. What are we like?! But fortunately there are games that make an exception to the potty-mouthed meanies that dominate, and toda
25 Oct 2018Announcement
Daily Deal - Hidden Folks, 50% Off
Today's Deal: Save 50% on Hidden Folks !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Saturday at 10AM Pacific Time
24 Oct 2018Developer post
The Beach areas - out now!!
The team and I are proud to release an update to Hidden Folks today!! This update includes a Beach DLC that contains 5 beach-themed areas with 60+ more things to find. Watch the trailer: We also added some of the new sounds from Beach to the mouth sound pack, and we heavily optim
18 Oct 2018Developer post
The Beach DLC - October 24th
Hey folks! Announcement! The new Beach DLC will be out next week, Wednesday October 24th!! The Beach DLC will have: - 5 new areas with 60+ things to find. - a price of around USD 2.99 in your local currency. - pirates. * H Y P E * And as if that's not enough, I'll also update the
26 Jun 2018Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Steam Summer Sale recommendations: 2018 edition!
The old quote is wrong: neither death nor taxes are, it seems to me, as terrifyingly certain as the Steam Summer Sale . Yes, once more we can add to the heap that is our backlog by buying games for, what, five quid, on average? But there are so many to choose from that it’s easy
10 May 2018Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Podcast: What do we play with our kids?
The dadification of games continues. So we re going full Dad this week on the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show , as we ve been asked to talk about the games we play with our children. Alec s daughter is excited by the unlockable characters in Rayman Legends (and she s al
10 May 2018Announcement
Daily Deal - Hidden Folks, 50% Off
Today's Deal: Save 50% on Hidden Folks !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Saturday at 10AM Pacific Time
10 May 2018Developer post
Mouth Sounds DLC + Controller Support + New Area
You read that right: multiple new things today!!! Mouth Sounds Pack We packed 71 of your favourite mouth sounds together, and you can buy them right here ! As long as it's not commercial, you can do whatever the heck you want with these sounds: notifications, ringtones... you nam
14 Mar 2018Developer post
Interface Upgrade - out now
What's up everyone! Adriaan here, the game designer behind Hidden Folks. While Sylvain (illustrator) and Celine (new addition to the team helping with level design) are working hard on a set of areas in a new theme, I spent most of the last few weeks rewriting the interface of Hi
14 Mar 2018Developer post
Interface Upgrade - out now
What's up everyone! Adriaan here, the game designer behind Hidden Folks. While Sylvain (illustrator) and Celine (new addition to the team helping with level design) are working hard on a set of areas in a new theme, I spent most of the last few weeks rewriting the interface of Hi
16 Feb 2018Developer post
Hidden Folks is 1 years old!!! What's next? (micro update)
We are working on two new themes, a few surprise areas, and thinking about rewriting various internal systems to allow for features like controller support, resetting a single area, and a more dynamic interface. More details as we work on these things!

Updates & announcements

Pricing changes

The On Tour areas

New areas in the future?