Video games allow people to do and become things they never could in real life. A lot of the time this means something extraordinary, like gaining some sort of superhuman power or traveling to a fantasy world. And other times it's something mundane or just a bit weird, like turning into furniture.

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The key to making such a mundane thing appealing is combining it with other gameplay elements, like adding in a stealth element or making it necessary to change into such ordinary things to complete an objective.

Updated September 26, 2023 by Mark Sammut: Prop Hunt games make up an odd sub-genre, and while there might not be thousands of these releases, there are more than someone might expect. These modes tend to allow players to inhabit furniture or objects, but there are also a few other games that do the same. One is even a massive Nintendo title.

9 PropHunt GMod

Garry's Mod or GMod is a sandbox that gives players the freedom and the tools to do several things. Using a version of Valve's source engine, GMod has created a large online community of player-created content and game modes. One of the most well-known game modes is PropHunt. In PropHunt, players are split into two teams, Props and Seekers.

Those on the prop team have 30 seconds to look around the map and disguise themselves as any of the props they come across, including things like tables, chairs, shelves, etc. Those on the seeker team have to find the players on the prop team and kill them using the weapons at their disposal. Seekers lose health if they attack props that aren't players.

8 Propnight

Ever wondered what it would be like to combine GMod's PropHunt with the multiplayer survival horror game Dead by Daylight? Well, look no further than Propnight. It combines all the elements of both games in a less gory but pretty creepy multiplayer game. The mechanics of the game are simple and anyone who is a fan of either series is sure to pick it up quickly.

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Players look around the map and disguise themselves as any of the props they can find while one player tries to find them. But instead of Props and Seekers, there are Survivors and Killers, and both have special abilities they can use to win the game.

7 Fortnite Prop Hunt

Fortnite isn't just for people who enjoy battle-royal or survival gameplay, it's also for people who want to be creative and want to test the limits of what they can do in the game. Fortnite has a Creative Mode that gives players a private island that they can build on, and can also invite their friends to join their island and play. They can also go to other's players in the community islands with public codes.

One of the most popular types of maps in Creative Mode is Prop Hunt, and there are tons of different islands with uniquely themed Prop Hunt games for players to choose from. Epic Games promotes maps that the community engages with the most and will adds to their Creative Welcome Hub. One of the most recently promoted Prop Hunt islands is a Home Alone-themed one, by Marablind. The island code is 1468-8833-8480.

6 Midnight Ghost Hunt

Hide and Seek isn't just for the living as the game Midnight Ghost Hunt shows. It's a multiplayer game where the teams are split up into Ghosts and Hunters. Players battle against one another in 4 on 4 matches on several creepy haunted maps. The goal of the Hunters is the find and exorcise each ghost using high-tech ghost-hunting equipment which includes a Vacuum to suck up their ghostly essence and a Spectral Cannon which can be used to blast them away, completely.

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The Ghosts are the ones who have to hide, masking themselves as simple furniture. The Ghosts have several other abilities, including making other objects float and shifting into doppelgangers of one of the Hunters, so they can hide in plain sight. Once the clock turns twelve, things switch up as the Hunters become the hunted and must survive the supercharged onslaught of the Ghosts.

5 Run, Prop, Run

For players who like the idea of games like GMod but want something a little more cute and family-friendly, Run, Prop, Run is the game for them. It's a 12-player prop hunt game that's also a platformer. Unlike most Prop Hunt games, when the Hunter catches the Props, they also turn them into Hunters.

A match can start with 11 Props vs. 1 Hunter and then end with 1 Prop and 11 Hunters, making the difficulty harder with each player turned. Hunters get to customize their characters and with every piece of furniture and prop donning googly eyes, it's a bit more challenging to tell what's another player and what isn't.

4 Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Prop Hunt

The Call of Duty series is a franchise to get into for people who like first-person shooters based in historic wartimes. It's a game with a pretty serious atmosphere, so one would think that a game mode like Prop Hunt wouldn't fit with such a franchise, but they would be wrong.

There is a Prop Hunt mode in several Call of Duty titles, including Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Players who are Props have 3 ways to defend themselves, one includes using flash-bang grenades to blind a Hunter and run away undetected.

3 Roblox Prop Hunt! Hide And Seek

Roblox is a game that runs on the creativity of its community, and many different games have been created. The popularity of PropHunt even reached the Roblox community, leading to the creation of many PropHunt-like games. One game that's still active is Prop Hunt! Hide & Seek.

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It's an amalgamation of classic GMod PropHunt and Midnight Ghost Hunt as players are split into two different teams; Hunters and Ghosts. There are 4 different maps and the game is updated regularly.

2 Peekaboo

Peekaboo is another charmingly cute PropHunt-inspired game that lets you turn into furniture. It follows the same vein as other games of its kind, two teams with one as the Hunters and the other team as the Props. What makes Peekaboo a notable game is the vibrant visuals of its maps.

From a futuristic cyber-punk-themed city to a dusty old town in the Wild West, each map feels genuinely alive and like it's inhabited. There are 10 maps, but each map comes with the ability to change the time of day and create a different atmosphere.

1 Super Mario Odyssey

Super Mario Odyssey introduced both the character Cappy and a new gameplay mechanic called "capturing". By throwing Cappy at certain objects and creatures, Mario can transform into those things and use certain abilities related to them.

A lot of the things Mario can transform into are enemies like Goomba, Chain Chomp, and even a T. Rex! But, there are other more mundane things he can transform into, like the Bowser Statue in the Moon Kingdom.

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