Pixel Paint Together 🖌️

Coloring pixels which you can play online. It's amazing the entire game is for free and you don't have to pay a dime for anything in order to fully enjoy the content.

Based on your point of view, these things can be both good or bad. The game keeps giving you worthless steam inventory items for finishing nearly every painting. Also, if you don't want to click so many times, you can simply boot up autoclicker and there is no punishment for it.

* Note that despite it offering an option to play with other people, I played the game solo so this review will be based on that.

My Playtime: 34.4h (100% achievement, finished the game)
Grindy Achievement(s): No.
Optional Achievement(s): No.
Difficult Achievement(s): No.

Intro

Pixel Paint Together 🖌️ is a paint-by-numbers game where you color a pixelated image. Images are available in certain sizes, from small to large.

Pros:
- A lot of images to color
- Once a pixel is colored correctly, you can't replace it with other color

Cons:
- Unable to save your progress midway
- Internet is required to play

Specs
Steam Deck: AMD Zen 2 4c/8t 2.4-3.5GHz, 16 GB RAM, 8 AMD RDNA 2 CUs

Should you play this game?

Yes.
It's a perfect game to multitask or when you need to mindlessly do something.

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In-Depth Review

Visuals

Since the game lets you paint pixels, the game uses pixelated visuals. The interface is pretty simple with you choosing which artwork to color. The text in the buttons can be confusing at first, but you won't interact with it that much.

The Game

Gameplay
As a paint-by-number game, Pixel Paint Together 🖌️'s gameplay is simple: there are several colors at the top and you must use them to color the picture on the screen. The smaller images will fit on one screen, although the larger ones will require you to scroll them to color everything. The artwork was divided into several themes, with national flags being the majority of them.

The artwork can be lazily done sometimes. Some of them look like copy-pasted from the previous image with a small difference. This was more apparent in the smiley pack, with only expressions different from each other.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3281853079

Coloring the pixels can also get boring sometimes, as it lacks a paint bucket tool. You need to use your mouse (or finger if you play it on Steam Deck like me), to color everything by hand. The thing is, some large images tend to be large not because of the complexity, but because it was made to make the size bigger—you'll find yourself using the same color for a large number of regions. A paint bucket tool will make the coloring faster in this case, although that will also mean that you'll go through the images faster.

Since I played in Steam Deck, I'm glad that the game don't replace the color once I painted a pixel with the correct color. It can be hard to accurately click on the right pixel, making the game unbeatable if the feature doesn't exist. However, I couldn't find a button to turn it off for those who want more challenges.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3235884576

The game has a lot of images to color in. Most of them are in the size of 16x16, but there are also others with larger sizes. Personally, I prefer images with a smaller size that fits my Steam Deck resolution so I don't have to move around the image, especially since finding the last pixel to color can be hard in large images.

The game also offers some customization. You'll get them after you color a lot of pixels, although I don't think it's that appealing. I didn't use it much since it's purely cosmetic, especially since I only care about coloring pictures.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3319723075

Length and Difficulty
I finished the game in 34h. The game is easy to finish - you can even mindlessly color the images like I did. Personally, I did it while finishing my Duolingo sessions, and despite not paying attention to it most of the time, I still managed to finish some pictures. However, there is no way to save your progress between images.

Issues
The game requires an internet connection to play—you won't be able to load a picture if you are not connected to the internet.

Conclusion

As someone who just wants to mindlessly color images, Pixel Paint Together 🖌️ does a good job at it. The features and the look might be lacking compared to other paint-by-pixel games, but for its price, it offers a lot of images to color. It also made me realize that coloring pixels is addicting. It's a great game to begin your pixel painting journey.

A relaxing color by numbers game. Color with up to 23 friends. Lots to paint. Currently 200+ free images to color and lots more free images to come.

Pixel Paint Together by Developer Jofer's Games

This is a nice free to play game. Each pixel is numbered, and each paint pot is numbered. Match all of the colors to their corresponding pixel to reveal the picture. Picture is pixelated and a bit hard to make out exactly what the image is sometimes. Gather your friends together and paint with up to 23 of them. Online interactivity with In-game chat. With the FREE updates the count is currently at 212+ images. And lots of FREE updates for more pictures are on the way. Every pixel you paint rewards XP. As you gain XP you will level up. Every level up will give you a chest where you can pick one of 3 goodies inside. Decorate your paintbrush with icons and sparkles. Every duplicate item you get of that type displays as your brush/sparkle level. I'm still figuring that part out. I have got 1 or 2 items but not a choice of 3 items to chose from. Maybe I didn't level up enough yet.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3273711561

If you correctly color in the pixel and accidentally color it over with an incorrect color later, then it changes to the incorrect color and you need to repaint that one again. Suggestion: Need to be able to lock in the pixels after correctly coloring them so they can't be changed again. Cursor does seems a little floaty. It could use some more achievements every so often when you complete a few pictures. Right now I've spent almost 14 hours and have only a few achievements. I DO like, that when you finish using a color then, that color disappears from the palette, making it easy to see how many colors are left.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3276460917

Control Options:
Left Click to Paint
Right Click to Drag
Mouse Wheel to Zoom
Control to Reset Camera
Number Keys to Manually Select Colors (Q instead of 0 so less reaching)
Z and X to Cycle Colors

Pros:
* In-Game Chat
* 19 Achievements
* Single/Online PvP/Co-op
* No Issues with Windows 11

Cons:
* No Trading Cards
* Profile Features Limited

Rating: 7.5/10

Final Thoughts:
This is a fun addictive F2P (Free to Play) game for one or more players, with it's own chat. I must admit that I haven't tried out the chat on here yet. Don't think any other of this type of game is multiplayer. There are better pixel paint games like Coloring Pixels or Coloring Game. Both are free and you can buy the extra DLCs later on if you want to continue after playing with the included free ones. On both of those, once you color the pixel with the correct color it stays colored even if you go over it with another (wrong) color. This one is free and has 212+ puzzles with NOTHING else to buy. What are you waiting for....pick up this fun and addicting game!

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