Paint it Back

Use logic as your paintbrush to restore lost works of pixel art. Try the demo!

Paint it Back is a puzzle, casual and indie game developed and published by Casual Labs.
Released on October 14th 2015 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 527 reviews of which 516 were positive and 11 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified Paint it Back into these genres:

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Requirements

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Windows

OS: XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: Intel Pentium M 1.7GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Any 3D capable card
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 195 MB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.7 or newer
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Any 3D capable card
Storage: 205 MB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 32/64-bit or Ubuntu 12.10 32/64-bit
Processor: 1GHz processor
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB shared or dedicated RAM (ATI or NVIDIA)
Storage: 225 MB available space

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

Great Picross game. Enough challenge and puzzles to keep at it for a long while.

Oct. 2024

I loved it, the puzzles were creative and fun!

Aug. 2024

I love nonograms and Paint it Back is an excellent addition to the category. The controls are great with a controller and on Steam Deck. I greatly appreciate the meaty demo along with it transferring progress to the actual game after buying it. The variance in puzzle size within categories is a breath of fresh air. There are plenty of standard and non-standard sizes available here. The music, while I don't remember it does at the very least fit the game while you play it. I like it despite not being able to describe it more. This game is worth full price and I'm going to finish going through it over time. Paint it Back, despite releasing years ago, sits in my Top 5 of nonogram games on Steam.

July 2024

Having played quite a lot of Paint it Back and Pepper's Puzzles - probably among the best nonogram games on Steam - I'll simply offer a comparison of the two. Paint it Back has better art, which is both more creative and better drawn. The difficulty curve is much smoother and more gradual in Paint it Back. But the user interface is a bit clunky, requiring more clicks than necessary, and missing some obvious quality-of-life features, like the ability to put down "marks" with a single action (e.g. middle mouse button, shift-click, or something), the ability to have more than one puzzle in progress at a time, etc. Paint it Back's puzzles are untimed, so there is no pressure. Paint it Back also offers a demo, so you can try before you buy. Pepper's Puzzles is pretty much the reverse of what I wrote above. The art is a bit worse, and less creative, and the difficulty ramps up very steeply. On the other hand, it has a better, smoother user interface, better music, and an overall better experience. Pepper's Puzzles has a timer, and gives you a number of stars based on how quickly you solved each puzzle. The timer is generous, but still adds pressure to solve the puzzle quickly. This may be a positive or negative. I enjoy the pressure and challenge, but if I fail to get three stars, I don't enjoy being "forced" to re-solve the puzzle. To be clear, there's nothing in the game forcing you to re-solve anything and stars are basically meaningless; you could ignore the timer entirely if you like. It's just my completionist impulse. Pepper's Puzzles has no demo. Both games offer a huge number of puzzles to solve. Overall, I've been playing more of Paint it Back than Pepper's Puzzles, simply because the art is better which makes the puzzles more fun to solve.

July 2024

Paint it Back is my favorite non-Jupiter picross game, and I even enjoy it more than some Jupiter titles. One of the best features is the wide variety in puzzle sizes, this isn't like the standard Jupiter 10x10 and 15x15, you can get sizes that are usually reserved for the extra modes in the Picross S series. The pictures are also a little more off the wall and unique than most Jupiter games, as much as I love them. It also has workshop support, so you have further puzzles you can explore designed by the community.

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-50% 7.99€ 3.99€

9.1

516

Online players

Developer

Casual Labs

Publisher

Casual Labs

Release 14 Oct 2015

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