If you need a relaxing game – a break from the world – Painter Simulator, by developers Solverto, and FreeMind S.A., will surely satisfy you. I’m honestly really happy I got to review this game because it definitely provided me time to destress from the demands of work and school. It’s just a sit and feel-good game.
The tutorial the developers provide gives you a brief insight to the controls of the game, but there really isn’t much to go over. I will say, though, that the addition of a hint to the next spot that needs to be painted was super helpful. A lot of the time I would be missing small, miniscule parts of the painting and the hint really helped – more so than the magnifying tool you could use. Sometimes the game will even give you a prompt saying small parts had been painted for me.
The game also has difficulty with paintings you can do. As of right now on Early Access, there are a good number of easy/medium maps, but only one hard map and no expert maps. Easy/Medium maps were more fun to do for me because the spaces that needed to be painted were larger and easier to paint/see. However, the hard map had more small/intricate spots that needed to be painted, so I found myself using the hint button quite often. There are also Scenario maps which are essentially hard maps with animations. I did the car map, and the beginning animation was unexpected but well appreciated. Although, I sometimes wish some of the spots to paint were more consolidated/larger in the scenario/hard maps, but again since the difficulty is increased it makes sense that they’re not.
Another thing I’d like to mention is the addition of multiple paint tools and skills. I was only able to purchase the hose and the airbrush – each of them paints differently. I personally didn’t really like the airbrush/didn’t see a reason to use it. In fact, I mostly just used the first paint tool the players were given. That coupled with the ‘continuous painting’ skill really got the job done for me. Other skills include bombs, brush size, paint refill, and money multiplier (which you use to buy the tools, skills, and maps).
Personally, I really like Painter Simulator. The only real criticism I have so far is I wish the game had a soundtrack. The sound effects already in the game are pretty satisfying, but I wish there was calming music – kind of like what other simulator games have. Regardless, if you have your own music (or not) and want to wind down, I highly recommend playing Painter Simulator.
Painter Simulator is available for PC via Steam Early Access.
Related: Reviews by Maryanne Fadonougbo
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