Cover announced a new holo Indie title, and it is a “spot the imposters” kind of game featuring Hololive Vtubers called Hologuard. It involves working as a security guard at the company’s office to check IDs and documents of people who come up and look like performers, but night actually be them. It will launch on Steam for PCs in 2025 for $3.99.
Like other spot the imposters style games like That’s Not My Neighbor and No, I’m not a Human, Hologuard is about paying attention both to the Hololive Vtubers stopping by and various tells. For example, a person who looks like Usada Pekora may show up with an ID that shows her picture, her name, her generation, and lists her birthday and name of her fans. You can check that and ask about things like her nicknames or English skills. Your goal is to stop the frauds and let the real ones through. However, you can lose one of your three lives if a real performer is turned away or an imposter slips through.
There are two ways to play the game. One is a set campaign. That covers your seven-day probationary period at Cover and focuses on every Vtuber present in the title. The second is an Endless mode that is about constantly being able to spot possible imposters trying to masquerade as one of the Vtubers in the game for as long as possible. With that one, you actually select your target and need to rely on trivia you know about them.
Here’s the first trailer for the game. While it is in Japanese, the Steam page did confirm English will be available as a language option.
Hologuard will come to the PC via Steam in 2025, though there’s no exact release date for it yet.