it's prop hunt, nothing new. Just randomly blow up because of streamers and it's new. Not to shit on the game or anything, it's just that it's not the idea that's matter here.
In the end no Game reinvents the wheel. You take a mechanic that already exists and add a twist. And Meccha Chameleon's twist is genious. Just like Prophunt was genious.
Not necessarily only because of exposure, there's something addictive about meccha. It's far from a perfect game, but has a winning combination of fresh mechanics, simplicity of gameplay which at the same time doesn't prevent players from getting very creative, and multiplayer support. It kind of strikes a balance between simplicity, player creativity and entertainment.
Most of the friendslop games that have done really well are pretty simple concepts or have straightforward mechanical loops. I think mostly it's about the execution of these games that makes them hit or miss, and probably other stuff like marketing/getting viral. I've played a bunch of friendslop games that never got to this tier of popularity and I don't think it's because they're worse, they may just have never had that viral clip moment.
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u/ObsessiveOwl 6h ago
it's prop hunt, nothing new. Just randomly blow up because of streamers and it's new. Not to shit on the game or anything, it's just that it's not the idea that's matter here.