Paint the Town Red

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 96%2021

$19.99

US Steam price, checked 6 h ago

The verdict

A gory voxel brawler sandbox that's great for mindless stress-relief fun, especially with Workshop maps and friends. Official content is thin and gets repetitive fast, so skip it if you want depth or pay full price.

Great for

Players who want gory, mindless stress relief, Workshop maps and co-op chaos with friends

Main risk

Only a handful of official levels; gameplay gets repetitive within a few hours for the price

What players love

Workshop and level editor add huge content

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“some of the community levels are better then the actual official levels since the community is constantly making more levels there’s new fun content every few days”
Steam review · 76.1 h played ↗

“The level editor is really fun and there are so many user made levels. basically infinite content.”
Steam review · 9.6 h played ↗

“There's also the Workshop, so if the official content runs out you can play custom maps.”
Steam review · translated · 55.4 h played ↗

Satisfying gore and physics combat

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“The voxel based combat makes it incredibly satisfying to just chuck an enemy into the head with a beer bottle and see his head cave in right where you hit him.”
Steam review · 210.6 h played ↗

“The weapon play feels great and the gore is top notch.”
Steam review · 117.2 h played ↗

“Beating faces is pure pleasure: a guy comes at you and you hurl a stool at him. Great brawler and ultra-violence!”
Steam review · translated · 5.6 h played ↗

Great stress relief

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews

“when i come home i can just play this game and relieve all the energy”
Steam review · 5.1 h played ↗

“Great game to blow off steam after a hard day at school or work!!!”
Steam review · translated · 7.3 h played ↗

“A perfect game for letting out all your anger, respect to the devs.”
Steam review · translated · 5.2 h played ↗

Beneath roguelike mode adds depth

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews

“A full rouge like within the game was not what I expected.”
Steam review · 9 h played ↗

“Such a good game Beneath Gamemode is so fun try it out”
Steam review · 51 h played ↗

“there is a massive RPG-Lite mode in the game, where you can pick to play as different classes”
Steam review · 210.6 h played ↗

Fun with friends and co-op

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews

“fun with friends and its fun punching someone in the face lololol”
Steam review · 8.7 h played ↗

“Paint the Town Red is multiplayer not only for the campaign but also for modded levels.”
Steam review · 36.1 h played ↗

Runs well on low-end PCs

Mentioned in ~1 in 38 positive reviews

“you can run this game on a potato”
Steam review · 3.6 h played ↗

“Fun to play in minimum settings it works even on that laptop”
Steam review · 7.4 h played ↗

What players complain about

Gets repetitive and boring quickly

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews

“gets boring after 10 minutes and AI sucks”
Steam review · 1.6 h played ↗

“Hit others in the face with a weapon then backstep; Hit others in the face with a weapon then backstep.”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗

“The gameplay is extremely monotonous and gets old very quickly.”
Steam review · translated · 1.1 h played ↗

Too few official levels and little content

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“It's been out for TEN YEARS and has SIX maps! SIX, not ten, not twelve, but SIX.”
Steam review · 72.3 h played ↗

“Only 6 main levels, which are pretty fun, but after beating them which only takes about an hour”
Steam review · 1 h played ↗

“Far too little content: 6 levels and a few weapons with identical patterns.”
Steam review · translated · 1.8 h played ↗

Bugs and crashes

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“it crashes constantly, even when im in level editor, it randomly crashes.”
Steam review · 111.2 h played ↗

“it's an absolute buggy mess.”
Steam review · 9.3 h played ↗

“In co-op there is severe desync after two or three levels.”
Steam review · translated · 8.2 h played ↗

Beneath roguelike mode is disliked

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“It feels like a running simulator, searching for the exit for ages.”
Steam review · 6.2 h played ↗

“I came for a cool massacre game and it all turned into some RPG garbage.”
Steam review · translated · 1.5 h played ↗

Overpriced for what it offers

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“20$ is a Crazy price, 10 dollars and I would recommend”
Steam review · 3.7 h played ↗

“A maximally raw game that costs 710 rubles.”
Steam review · translated · 7.7 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows 7 SP1 or later

ProcessorIntel Dual-Core 2 GHz (or AMD equivalent)

Memory2 GB RAM

GraphicsDirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4 GPU with 1024MB VRAM

Storage2 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 10 or later, 64 Bit

ProcessorIntel Quad Core i5 @ 2.5 GHz (or AMD equivalent)

Memory3 GB RAM

GraphicsDirectX 11, Shader Model 5 GPU with 2048MB VRAM

Storage2 GB available space

OSWindows 7 SP1 or later

ProcessorIntel Dual-Core 2 GHz (or AMD equivalent)

Memory2 GB RAM

GraphicsDirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4 GPU with 1024MB VRAM

Storage2 GB available space

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