Meccha Chameleon developer Lemorion recently announced that the viral hide-and-seek multiplayer game has sold over 7 million copies. Coincidentally, a new Japanese-style map will be released within the next 48 hours. The announcement comes not long after the game’s concurrent player count hit a new all-time high at over 340,500 players (SteamDB).
Meccha Chameleon has been making waves ever since it was released for Windows on June 10. It sold over 2 million copies in just five days – a massive feat for a self-published indie project. This drew the attention of fellow Japanese developers, who saw it as tremendously inspiring success-story given the industry’s difficult circumstances in recent years.
The game would sell roughly 1 million more copies over the next few days, surpassing 3 million copies in the week following its release. Though rumors about Meccha Chameleon potentially having robust personnel and financial backing started to pop up, co-creator HAGANEIRO quickly dismissed them, disclosing that the game uses Epic Games’ free multiplayer networking tools, which is how the two-person team is able to handle server operations by themselves. They also added that no money was spent on advertising, suggesting that it was word-of-mouth and the game’s “fun-to-stream” design that has brought them this far.
Meccha Chameleon released its first additional map, the candy-filled Sugar Land, on June 18. If the current release pace is any indication, players can look forward to a wealth of levels and content in the future.
Meccha Chameleon is available for Windows (Steam).
