Paint By Numbers

This is a fun colouring game, however I cannot believe that I had to pay almost R250 on 50% off for all the DLC's. Hate it when free to play games force you to buy DLC's to unlock all the achievements. This is why free to play games get a bad rep.

Edited: Guess what... more DLC's with achievements and they aren't cheap. Just stay away if you are an achievement hunter trust me

Artists of Fortune: DIstant Worlds is a freemium color by number game that has 20 free images and 180 paid images. The overall aesthetic of the game is pretty nice, and overall, the game looks pretty polished.

I'll list the pros and cons here:

Pros:
20 free images that are of a variety of sizes, and each have a unique aesthetic artistic quality to them that makes them really nice to look at.
The usual color by number power of the fill bucket is available in this game for those of you that would rather not spend hours working on one image, along with two unique and somewhat interesting powers, including the Rainbow Brush that lets you literally paint in any color while it is active, and the other one which blows up and colors in a selected area of the coloring field. I don't plan on using any of these powers in my quest to finish all the images.
All paid DLC give a very good amount of content for their price.

Neutral:
Music and sounds are kind of meh for me. I'll more than likely play the entire game with them off. Not going to ding you for this, though.
Paid DLC isn't available in a bundle for a small percentage off. Even if I could buy all 9 DLC for 10% off, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Not going to ding you for this, either.
Story is kind of bland. Not going to ding you for this due to the fact that this is a color by number game and not a story driven game.

Cons:
I've found a number of images that don't utilize a large number of colors. You can easily get a lot more detailed images if you use more colors, and while it would take more time to develop these images, the flipside is that us players get much more interesting images to color in. Please consider this for future DLCs, especially for the largest images.
Paid DLC is required to get all achievements. This is a pet peeve of mine, and while I don't mind buying the paid DLC, you might want to consider possibly excluding these in future games as it can be somewhat aggravating for some players.
I absolutely hate the Scientist achievements. I've found that forcing perfection is never a good thing in any game.
No free XL images. If you provide just one or two free XL images, I bet you'd get more people buying the DLC.

Overall, a great color by number game, but could still use a little work on the image color variety in the future. 8/10 will recommend.

Artists of Fortune: Distant Worlds is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as a cash grab (But it's free? I'll explain in a bit).

It's not really a game, it's a paint-by-numbers simulator. You're presented with a pixellated picture of a fish or a cat or whatever, and you must click on a "paint" colour with a letter on it, and then click that paint colour on each letter of the pixellated picture, to colour it in.

So they basically found a way to take the fun and challenge out of a paint-by-numbers set, and yet also make it suck. See, the art assets are all low resolution, to cater to the mobile peasants this "game" was designed for. There's no 4K support, it's simply not up to standard for modern PC, even if it was a game.

Despite not being a game, there's a frankly insulting ~$20 USD worth of DLC for this non-game mobile app junk.

These guys have managed to come up with a mobile app that's almost, but not quite, as much fun as popping bubble wrap. But in lower resolution. And you have to pay them $20 for the privilege. This one is a hard pass.