Passpartout: The Starving Artist
Even you can become a great artist! Wrestle subjectivity as you attempt to sell your art to rude customers in order to progress in this confusing art scene. The only thing threatening you is your expensive wine and baguette addiction! Will your art end up in the Louvre or on your parents' fridge?
Passpartout: The Starving Artist is a casual, simulation and indie game
developed by Flamebait Games
and published by Flamebait Games and Gamera Games.
Released on June 06th 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 13 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 6,691 reviews of which 5,897 were positive and 794 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 or later
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 460 or Radeon HD 6850
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.6
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon HD 6850 or equivalent
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Linux
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon HD 6850 or equivalent
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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Perhaps or probably not a game for everyone and I can understand that it can become boring for some people, as far as I am concerned, I really enjoyed it and will definitely get the sequel at some point. If you are artistically inclined or even just a little interested in art, then you should give the game a try.
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Really fun to play if you know atleast something about art or if you're really experienced with it, 10/10, Or should i say Dix sur dix :)
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the title says it all, ive never felt so much like a poor in debt art student <3 ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☑ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10
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It's a very relaxing game that pushes your creative limits and patience. I'm not a great artist whatsoever, but I enjoy playing this game and making art for fun without having to worry about judgement. While the characters are technically critique-ing your art, it is light-hearted and laughable. Love this game!
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UPDATE: I am updating this review now that I've experienced all the different endings and collected all the achievements, because even though I was very enthusiastic about the game in the original version, I don't think it adequately conveys how much I like it. I LOVE this game. This is going to sound overly dramatic but I'm being 100% serious when I say that this game made me believe in myself in a way I would not have thought possible. Being able to create a whole series of paintings that appeals to a certain customer group is incredibly satisfying. I never would have guessed I was capable of that. Sure, the "rules" that make the customers like a painting are really quite simple (though not at all easy to figure out!) and they don't actually have much to do with the content of the painting, but succesfully creating paintings that follow these rules nonetheless boosted my confidence. I really enjoyed experimenting with the different styles, I had a lot of fun recreating the same scenes in multiple styles, and some of my paintings actually look quite nice! I still haven't figured out the pen tool, but I used it (very slowly!) a whole lot to appeal to the minimalists (with great success!). I still would like a finer brush, but, as I said in the original review, being forced to create with the tools at hand forces you to be innovative. I found this incredibly satisfying and it unlocked whole new areas of creativity in my brain. Obviously, ymmmv, but for me this game is both fun and fulfilling. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I bought Passpartout: The Starving Artist for <$5 during a sale, and I’d say it’s WELL worth it. I have played approximately 12 hours so far and I’ve reached two different endings (I have mastered Expressionism and Realism). I look forward to trying to get the other endings. I should explain that a. I did not read anything beyond the basic description of the game before I started playing and b. I am very much not an artist. I’m a beginner painter with let’s say elementary school art skills. If you are more familiar with the game than I was and/or if you’re an actual artist, you may have a rather different experience with this game than I did! I started this game by just… painting stuff. I enjoyed it but didn’t sell much, especially past Act I. Figuring out what the different customer groups are looking for is tricky. They are extremely rude about your art when they don’t like it, which is honestly pretty funny. The comments are not always easy to interpret, and I eventually just looked up what it is some of these customers want (it took me a second to realize that the title of the game is spelled without the “e” in passepartout; if you need to look things up, this may be important). At first I felt a little frustrated that I couldn’t just paint what I wanted but this forces you to be creative with the tools you have available and I started really enjoying using different methods to create things in hopes of appealing to certain customers (for example, using a ton of thin lines in different colors all over top of each other to create a mostly single-color field to appeal to the realists). I was also a little frustrated by the limited color palette and the unavailability of additional tools or brush sizes. Again, of course, this forces you to be creative with the stuff you do have access to, but it really would be nice to have a really thin brush, as the smallest brush is really not all that small, compared to the size of the canvas. The only way to get a thin line is to draw a line with the smallest brush size and then paint over it with the background color to make it thinner, which is obviously tedious (though I legit enjoy trying to do it) and imprecise. I also rarely use the pen tool because I don’t really understand it. It has a weird lag for reasons I don’t quite understand (yet?). You can change the width of the stroke while you are drawing but I haven’t found much use for that. I also had to look up how to sell to ghosts, because apparently this information is hidden somewhere in the game files. That’s kind of a fun mystery, but if you’re coming to this game as late as I did and you’re not reading game updates or wherever else it was hinted/revealed that that’s where you should look for hints about the ghosts, you’re not going to know that without looking it up. Even though I have looked up the exact instructions for selling to each ghost, I am still having difficulty with one particular ghost. Another one took me several tries; I think that happened because I capitalized the title of the painting when I was not supposed to, so it’s definitely a bit of a struggle even when you look it up. Anyway, if you’re into making silly little drawings with a bit of a challenge/puzzle element to them, this is the game for you. This is also probably the game for you if you enjoy the challenge of creating actual nice pieces with somewhat crude tools. I lack the skill to do something like that, but I’ve seen some really nice pieces uploaded by others. Because I was late to this game, the sequel has been out for a while already, as I just discovered. I look forward to trying it as well.
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Online players
21
Developer
Flamebait Games
Publisher
Flamebait Games,
Gamera Games
Release
06 Jun 2017
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