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2016 · hap inc. · Puzzle · Rhythm

Hide & Dance!

Press the buttons to the rhythm of the music! Dance and make combos! Be careful not to be spotted by your mom entering the room!

Released
18 March 2016
Platforms
AndroidNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4iOS
Genres
PuzzleRhythm
Developers
hap inc.Kemco
Publishers
hap inc.
Modes
Co-opMultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
Third person
Themes
ActionParty
Country
Japan
Age ratings
PEGI 3ESRB ECERO A
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (Spain)

About

Hide & Dance!, originally released on mobile as Behind You!!, is a 2016 rhythm game developed and published by hap inc. for iOS and Android devices on March 18, 2016. The game was later ported to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 by Kemco in late 2020. Designed and programmed by the founder of hap inc., Yuusaku Ishimoto, the game sees the player playing as a girl who attempts to dance in her room without being caught by her mother.

Hide & Dance! was received positively by critics; GameZebo called it a "slight but hugely endearing rhythm action title". According to its official website, the game has been downloaded over 2.5 million times on mobile devices.

Media

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

's main mode, players primarily play as a girl and must press buttons in accordance to the ones displayed on the screen in order to dance. While dancing, the girl's mother will occasionally enter the room and result in a game over if the player continues dancing. To avoid the game over, players must stop dancing when the mother enters the room. The game features 10 different songs the player can dance to, with each song having 3 different difficulty settings.

After clearing songs, players receive in-game coins, which can be used in a gashapon machine to unlock new songs and characters to play as. The game has a multiplayer mode, which supports up to two players.

Development

Hide & Dance! , consisting solely of its founder, the Tokyo-based Yuusaku Ishimoto. Hide & Dance! has a similar art style to other hap inc.

games. The game's characters are modelled after Ishimoto's childhood and appear in many other hap inc. titles, most notably Mom Hid My Game!.

Reception

Hide & Dance! was generally praised by critics, being rated 4/5 by GameZebo and 7/10 by Pure Nintendo. Maria Alexander of GameZebo described the game as a "slight but hugely endearing rhythm action title"; Pure Nintendo's Trevour Gould described it as "short on gameplay but big on smiles" and also thought that it's more fun to watch other people play the game than playing it oneself. Masanori Mokudai covered the mobile releases in an article for 4Gamer.net, in which he described it as "surprisingly solid".

Maria Alexander of GameZebo praised the game's controls as "intuitive." Alexander thought that the "hiding" mechanic was "confusing" at first, but stated that it soon became "second nature." Gould stated that it's "hard not to crack a smile" while watching other people play the game. Gould also compared the game to the rhythm video game series Dance Dance Revolution, while Alexander compared it to Nintendo's WarioWare series.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
iOS18 March 2016Worldwide
Android18 March 2016Worldwide
PlayStation 430 September 2020Asia · Europe 19 November 2020
Nintendo Switch1 October 2020North America · Europe 1 October 2020

Editions and related releases

Included in
Mom Hid My Game! Collection

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