Chambara: Stylish hide-and-seek inspired by samurai flicks

Chambara embodies stark beauty with its stylish landscapes full of brilliant gem tones or simple blacks and whites. But its colors aren’t just there for visual effect. It’s a split-screen local multiplayer game where you must elude your enemies, camouflage by changing colors, and strike when your victim least expects it. Though developer Team OK originally debuted the game in 2016 for the PlayStation 4, it launched a PC and Mac version on December 12.

Team OK project lead Kevin Wong says the team studied a lot of samurai films to replicate their tense atmosphere, slow buildup, and consequent explosive action. Iconic film director Akira Kurosawa was a big influence, as was an episode from Genndy Tartakovsky’s Cartoon Network series Samurai Jack.