Paint the Town Red is an adventure developed by South East Games, released 29 July 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Paint the Town Red is
Paint the Town Red is an adventure game developed by South East Games and released in 2021. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, 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.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Paint the Town Red holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Dual-Core 2 GHz (or AMD equivalent), 2 GB RAM and DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4 GPU with 1024MB VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Paint the Town Red launched on 29 July 2021, within three weeks of Twelve Minutes, The Forgotten City, Death's Door and Black Book. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Twelve Minutes, The Forgotten City, Death's Door, Black Book.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Paint the Town Red yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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