Paint it Back
BANGER · Short indie · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.99.
- Length
- 22.6h 41.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.35/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 569 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Use logic as your paintbrush to restore lost works of pixel art. Try the demo!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Any 3D capable card, 195 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 52 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Save Room - Organization Puzzle ($2.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Zup! 5 ($1.99, scores 85).
$25.66 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Paint it Back
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
96% start to 25% 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
- Players online
- 7 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 14:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I played this game when it came out on IOS. I vowed to never get a Steam account ever. However, when I saw this was the only way to play this game (due to stupid stuff in the ios version), I got a steam account. That should show you how good this game is.
2 more reviews
Its a nice nonogram game. I really like how larger canvases have the option to do them in smaller parts.
Awesome game, and can essentially put it on "easy mode" for those that are struggling.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Paint it Back scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/385250/paint-it-backReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.