Meccha Chameleon Hits an Astonishing 15 Million Sales, Teases Collaboration With Famous Japanese Star — and Fans Have Theories for Who It Might Be

Skyrocketing Japanese indie deed Meccha Chameleon conscionable surpassed 15 cardinal sales, contempt launching connected Steam little than a period ago. Now, the paint-and-seek multiplayer crippled is getting a collaboration with a well-known Japanese star, and fans are abuzz with excitement implicit who it mightiness be.

Developed by a squad of 2 successful conscionable 2 months (with zero selling to boot, apparently), Meccha Chameleon is an online multiplayer crippled successful which players are divided into Seekers and Hiders. In a twist connected hide-and-seek, Hiders indispensable overgarment their pintsized character’s plain achromatic assemblage to lucifer their surroundings, portion the Seeker squad indispensable hunt them down earlier clip runs out. A immense deed with streamers, the crippled has prompted players to travel up with immoderate ace originative and creator ways of coating themselves into the scenery.

Launching connected June 10, Meccha Chameleon changeable up the Steam charts and has present deed the 15 cardinal milestone, according to a caller Steam assemblage blog post. “Thanks a million! Get acceptable for a caller collaboration with a celebrated Japanese prima adjacent week!” teased the announcement from developer lemorion_1224.

Over connected X, users reacted with speculations connected who this mightiness be. The Japanese tweet specifically says “Japanese celebrated person,” seemingly ruling retired characters from different games. Hikakin, beatboxer and 1 of Japan’s apical YouTubers was a communal guess. Considering Meccha Chameleon’s coating theme, others mentioned watercolor creator and cozy YouTube contented creator Harumichi Shibasaki. Shibasaki is nary alien to videogame collaborations, taking portion successful Minecraft’s 15th day celebrations (Automaton), truthful it's casual to ideate his paintings of the Japanese countryside popping up successful Meccha Chameleon.

It seems that players volition person to hold until adjacent week to find retired who Meccha Chameleon’s mysterious caller impermanent volition be. The developers person been keeping the patches and updates coming astatine a breakneck gait since the game’s launch. Meccha Chameleon has go specified an overnight improvement that immoderate radical are adjacent playing it successful existent beingness now.

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Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.