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Paint the Town Red

Paint the Town Red

|Australia|Shooter, Adventure

7.9 /10

Pretty good

Very hot

32.5k ratings
Rating sources
Steam · Player score9.6/1032.4k ratingsIGDB · Critic score7.0/102 ratingsIGDB · Player score6.9/1031 ratings
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Why play it

Paint the Town Red is a chaotic first person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn't nailed down.

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Rating momentum

Pretty good: 7.9/10 across 32.5k ratings. Overall vibes are good; safe to add to your backlog.

Play style

Leans into Shooter, Adventure, Indie — a quick read on whether that fantasy matches what you usually enjoy.

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EvilgamerzChristiaan Ribbens · 22 Mar, 2024
6/10

The controls in Paint the Town Red VR are intuitive and the most important settings are present, such as adjusting the height for seated players. The entire game is a very smooth experience on the PSVR2. A fun fact is that the music was composed by BAFTA award-winning Jeff Van Dyck. The game does not do anything innovative, but it does manage to offer a lot of content and possibilities to the player. The simple combat system and visual style will not be for everyone and the two tens of euros therefore feel quite pricey. But if you want to release your aggression for half an hour every now and then, this is the game for you!

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Duuro MagazineKrist Duro · 13 Mar, 2024
7.5/10

Paint The Town Red VR on Quest 3 brings the exhilarating and blood-soaked action of the original game to virtual reality, offering a unique and immersive brawler experience, but technical problems keep it from being one of the greats.

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KeenGamerChris Hall · 26 Aug, 2021
6.5/10

Smashing onto PC is Paint The Town Red a first person action game where you battle through waves of enemies across three game modes and multiplayer and causing buckets of blood and gore to fly around thanks to the game’s innovative voxel based gore system. But is the game any good? Read the review to find out!

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GamingTrendLawrence Le · 23 Aug, 2021
7/10

The pinnacle of ceaseless, contextless voxel violence. It's hard to top the high-octane, improvisation combat of Paint the Town Red, but those highs don't always survive across its many modes.

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WayTooManyGamesJordan Hawes · 18 Aug, 2021
7.5/10

With the various scenarios and modifiers, arena combat, and a full roguelite mode, there is plenty to do here. If you’re looking to pick up something you can shut your brain off and have a little over the top gory fun, pick this one up.

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COGconnectedAaron Nashar · 17 Aug, 2021
6.7/10

Paint the Town Red is a unique, fun experience for the first couple of times you play it. The game has adequate graphics and sound design that match the wackiness and a couple of game modes that should keep you engaged when trying them all out. But Paint the Town red suffers from repetitive gameplay, limited combat options, no story or depth to hook your interest, and little to no replayability. For a $19.99 purchase, we’d say consider holding off until a discount drops the price.

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Generación XboxAlejandro Serrador · 16 Aug, 2021
6.7/10

‎Video games were created specifically to entertain the public, being from time immemorial simple computer codes and algorithms translated into pixels that interact with each other. And even though today this industry has been evolving the graphics and proposals to become a reflection of our reality, there are many games that continue to bet on offering a "meaningless" development but with violence as the main bulwark. The latter, of course, isn't necessarily bad, but the violence in the art of this Paint the Town Red is short-lived, ‎‎even though while it lasts it's entertaining‎‎– and when there's not much else to explore, the development becomes somewhat monotonous.‎

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XboxEraJesse Norris · 14 Aug, 2021
6.5/10

Though not that deep the game is quite a bit of fun. It's an easy recommendation if you can find it on sale.

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GameSpewChris McMullen · 7 Aug, 2021
8/10

Including the dungeon-crawling mode Beneath does damage Paint the Town Red‘s sense of identity a little, but it’s certainly not a deal breaker. The real joy of this game is the fact that you can dip into it for 30 minutes or so of gore-soaked fun; if you’ve had a tough day, it could be quite a cathartic experience. Paint the Town Red may have spent more time in Early Access than most, but it’s still a bloody joy to play. Just don’t think throwing the first punch means you’ll come out on top.

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Nindie SpotlightJustin Nation · 29 Jul, 2021
5.7/10

First-person perspective absolutely brings you into the action, so when it's applied to genres that haven't usually been played that way the results can sometimes be exciting...

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