{"rewrite":{"id":"r_0a45496815b3ddf721b5b5be","clusterId":"c_4d5d12ce82d615eaf0457c01","slug":"bexide-announces-cat-and-paste-for-steam-with-october-playtest","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"BeXide Announces Cat And Paste For Steam With October Playtest","summary":"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.","whyItMatters":"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.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003ePlayers 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.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"BeXide's 16-player search hinges on a hammer and a rifle as the only hunter tools, so every copied object a cat plants reads as a decision the hunter must undo by force.","twitterPost":"Cat and Paste! gives hunters a hammer and a rifle for the search. Every fake a cat copies is something a hunter has to physically break.","threadsPost":"Cat and Paste! runs a 16-player hide-and-seek where cats copy stage objects into fakes and hunters swing a hammer or fire a rifle to sort real from copied. The 16-player ceiling makes coordination the hunter's real tool. Free playtest is October 16 to 19 on Steam.","newsletterBlurb":"BeXide has announced Cat and Paste!, a multiplayer hide-and-seek game for up to 16 players, and opened its Steam store page. Cats copy stage objects to transform and paste fakes to hide, while hunters search with a hammer and rifle. A free open playtest runs on Steam from October 16 to 19, 2026.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Denfaminicogamer\",\"url\":\"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2610092f\",\"title\":\"Up to 16 Players: Copy-and-Paste Transformation Cat Hide-and-Seek Game 'Cat and Paste!' Release Announced; Open Playtest to Run From October 16\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4692,"outputTokens":632,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791541343,"createdAt":"2026-10-09T10:18:20.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-09T10:21:12.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T10:21:12.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_4d5d12ce82d615eaf0457c01","canonicalTitle":"【最大16人】物を“コピペ”して化けるネコのかくれんぼゲーム『Cat and Paste!』がリリース決定。10月16日からオープンプレイテストを実施","representativeArticleId":"a_19c17da6b90eb805978590ad","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Cat and Paste!\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-09T09:00:06.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-09T09:00:06.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T10:21:07.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Denfaminicogamer","url":"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2610092f","title":"【最大16人】物を“コピペ”して化けるネコのかくれんぼゲーム『Cat and Paste!』がリリース決定。10月16日からオープンプレイテストを実施"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Cat and Paste!"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}