BeXide Announces Cat And Paste For Steam With October Playtest
The free four-day Steam playtest gives BeXide a public test window for a 16-player game whose copy-and-paste hiding mechanic and stream-friendly invite codes depend on a populated player pool before release.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
BeXide Inc. has announced Cat and Paste!, a multiplayer hide-and-seek game for up to 16 players, and opened its Steam store page. Cats copy and paste stage objects to transform and scatter fakes; hunters search with a hammer and rifle. A free open playtest runs on Steam from October 16 to 19, 2026. The game is scheduled for release on Steam soon.
Players on the cat side copy stage objects to take their appearance, then paste to scatter large numbers of fakes. Transformation is not limited by shape or size, spanning wooden crates and barrels to tractors and large trees, and the color of a copied object can be changed freely. Hunters search using a hammer and a rifle. The hammer blows away surrounding objects at once, and the rifle makes connected fakes disappear in a chain. Tails, faces, and slightly distorted shapes give transformed cats away. Two rule sets are included: the solo Hide-and-Seek Royale and the team battle Hide-and-Seek WARS, which uses a growing oni rule. An Edit Mode lets players place objects freely on the map, save stages, and play them repeatedly.
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