Paint the Town Red
BANGER · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9950% offBANGER
- Cost per hour
- $3.77/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 32,847
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 5.3h
- To 100%
- 24.9h 4.7x the story
- Achievements
- 30
Price and sales
- Sales
- 60 on record
- Typical cut
- 35% off
- Steam low
- $7.99 November 2015
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 200 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 9% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
46% start to 2% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 60 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, Happy Room ($2.49, scores 82) and Back 4 Blood ($59.99, scores 24) both come in lower.
More about Paint the Town Red
52 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,176 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 40 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 4 of the 52 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 2,062 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 25, 4.7 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $9.99 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
In my opinion, "Paint the Town Red" is a really fun game that you can play to pass the time, whether you're on your own or with friends. It has a nostalgic feel for me because I remember watching lots of videos of it when I was a kid and having a great time. It's definitely worth trying, so I recommend you buy it.
2 more reviews
It's got pretty simple combat and that is a shame, because it has a lot going for it otherwise, like the funny aspects in the game, the prison was a good one. I don't understand the single player game that came with the fighting game, the game called Beneath, (I think) I tried it, but couldn't be bothered trying to figure it out, maybe it is fun, but it looks like it's going to be worthless, just my first...
i walk in the bar i go to the bathroom i take a piss guy next to me looks at me funny i punt him in his stupid cube head BAM one BAM two BAM three and then i leave the pisser get a bar stool i return i hit him agian BAM hes not getting back up i throw my stool at the stall door BAM and theres some lady in there or something i curb her ass against the toilet seat i leave the pisser again i take a knife from the dart...
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4 GPU with 1024MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Paint the Town Red scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/337320/paint-the-town-redReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.