Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg did not necessarily set out to create a new genre. But, in some ways, that’s exactly what the duo did when they released Hidden Folks in 2017. Hidden object games have been around for decades – they’ve existed well before computers, when people searched for objects in paintings and printed drawings – but Hidden Folks was a distinct step forward. De Jongh calls Hidden Folks a “searching” game; objects are certainly hidden, but the game is more than just spotting objects.
“We wanted to make a very playful, interactive game where our focus was invoking this curiosity for these little worlds and the little …