Paint the Town Red
BANGER · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.6h
- Value
- $3.57/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.99, set in November 2015. It has been discounted 59 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games closest to it, Back 4 Blood ($59.99, scores 24) and Serious Sam 4 ($39.99, scores 46) both come in lower.
44 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 2,031 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 25, 4.4 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
46% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
296 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Got hired to paint a town red, so many guys came to help me get the walls all red. Very peaceful and helpful NPCs
Watched Captain Sauce play, and got it myself. Been enjoying it for awhile now since this is the only voxel beat em up game I ever played. My only issue is that vr is a separate dlc, and since I've already brought the quest 2 version, (which is even more, and you can't play custom levels)- I have no choice, but to rebuy the vr version when I already own it just to play custom levels. Which is what drastically...
ten years, ten years and the devs added nothing. Don't expect to get more than an hours worth of content. Probably not even worth it if it was 99% off
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Paint the Town Red scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/337320/paint-the-town-redThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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