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Paint it Back

The art has disappeared from the gallery! Can you paint it back? Recreate lost works of pixel art using logic as your paintbrush. Solve paintings like "Enormous Ant Goes Sightseeing" and "Satan is My Neighbor"…

90 1 October 2013

Paint it Back is an indie developed by Casual Labs, released 1 October 2013 on iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Paint it Back is

Paint it Back is an indie game developed by Casual Labs and released in 2013. It is available on iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Paint the Town Red is a 2021 first-person action video game, developed and published by South East Games. Initially released as an early access title in 2015, the full version became available on Steam in 2021, with versions also released for Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch. Developed on the Unity Engine, with the use of voxels, players are placed in various locations where the goal is to kill all other non-playable characters. Weapons and items around the levels are used to inflict damage on NPCs, with them also able to attack the player in return.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Paint it Back holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium M 1.7GHz, 1 GB RAM and Any 3D capable card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Paint it Back launched on 1 October 2013, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto V, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, The Stanley Parable and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto V, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, The Stanley Parable, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Paint it Back — frequently asked questions

When did Paint it Back come out?
Paint it Back was released on 1 October 2013 for iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Paint it Back?
At minimum, Paint it Back needs Intel Pentium M 1.7GHz, 1 GB RAM, Any 3D capable card graphics, 195 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Paint it Back?
The PC version needs about 0.2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("195 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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