Hidden Folks

Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles!

80 15 February 2017

Adventure Indie Point-and-click Puzzle Comedy Party

Hidden Folks is an adventure developed by Adriaan de Jongh, released 15 February 2017 on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and Linux.

Verified 1 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What Hidden Folks is

Hidden Folks is an adventure game developed by Adriaan de Jongh and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Hidden Folks is a hidden object game developed by Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg. In the game, players are presented with a series of animated, interactive scenes and must find hidden characters, objects, and animals. The game was released for iOS, Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows in February 2017.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 8 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Hidden Folks holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 67 votes.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for SSE2 instruction set support and DX10 (shader model 4.0) or higher..

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What it launched against

Hidden Folks launched on 15 February 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata and Hollow Knight. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata, Hollow Knight.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Hidden Folks — frequently asked questions

When did Hidden Folks come out?

Hidden Folks was released on 15 February 2017 for Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Hidden Folks?

At minimum, Hidden Folks needs SSE2 instruction set support, DX10 (shader model 4.0) or higher. graphics, 300 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Hidden Folks?

The PC version needs about 0.3 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("300 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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