Game system playable by plurality of players, game apparatus and storage medium storing game program

A game system includes, for example, a game console and a plurality of hand-held game apparatuses functioning as an operating means. In the game system, a game for causing a plurality of player characters simultaneously displayed to find a hidden item in a game field is performed. Then, in a case that a distance between a non-displayed item hidden as an object to be found and the player character falls within the range of the predetermined distance, a notification sound varied depending on the distance, for example, is output from a speaker of the hand-held game apparatus operating the player character.