Paint the Town Red

Paint the Town Red is a first-person voxel brawler on PC built around improvised weapons, reactive melee combat, and escalating crowd fights. The current Steam storefront still uses the original name, with no verified rebrand or replacement edition. Its main package combines scenario-based brawls, the roguelite Beneath mode, Arena challenges, online co-op, and a powerful level editor connected to Steam Workshop.

Improvised first-person combat

The core loop is simple to understand but difficult to master: enter a hostile location, find a weapon, start a fight, and survive the resulting chain reaction. Almost every loose object can become part of the attack, from bottles and chairs to blunt weapons, blades, firearms, and period-specific equipment.

Combat is driven by dynamic melee interactions rather than a conventional character build. Enemies are made from destructible voxels, so punches, kicks, weapons, and environmental impacts can visibly damage bodies and change the shape of each encounter. Positioning matters because enemies can attack from several directions while discarded weapons become valuable resources.

The first-person camera keeps every hit close and physical. You need to manage distance, identify dangerous targets, and decide when to use a strong weapon, a special ability, or a quick escape. The result feels closer to a chaotic sandbox brawl than a traditional shooter with melee attacks added as a secondary option.

Three different ways to play

Scenario mode places you in themed locations such as a biker bar, disco, prison, pirate cove, and western saloon. These stages begin as populated environments, but the situation can quickly collapse into a large-scale fight. Each map has its own weapons, hazards, enemy groups, secrets, and opportunities for environmental improvisation.

Beneath is the game's largest structured mode. It is a roguelite dungeon adventure set underground, with selectable classes, permanent progression, upgrade choices, unusual enemies, secrets, and boss encounters. Runs are built around learning enemy patterns, improving your character, and deciding how aggressively to spend available resources before the next fight.

Arena mode focuses on challenge-based combat and survival. It is more immediately score-oriented than Beneath, with themed encounters and escalating battles that test crowd control, weapon selection, and movement. Endless variants extend the combat loop for players who prefer wave survival over exploration.

Systems that create emergent chaos

The standout feature is physics-driven voxel damage. Enemies are not just health bars with stylized models; individual body parts can be damaged, removed, or destroyed. A weapon that works well against one opponent may be awkward against another, and an object found in the environment can completely change your approach to a room.

Scenario levels reward observation before violence. You can inspect the environment, identify useful objects, notice enemy relationships, and choose when to trigger the larger confrontation. Special attacks and combat abilities add another layer, giving experienced players ways to control crowds or finish dangerous targets before they become a problem.

Beneath shifts the emphasis toward classes and roguelite upgrades. Its progression is more deliberate than the one-off Scenario battles, while bosses introduce specific threats that require different tactics. This gives the game a stronger mastery loop than its chaotic premise initially suggests.

Content model and PC extras

The standard PC game is a paid package rather than a free-to-play service. It includes the Scenario, Beneath, Arena, Endless, Sandbox, online co-op, and level-editor features. The current Steam listing also presents a separate soundtrack edition, while Paint the Town Red VR is sold as additional downloadable content that requires the base game.

There is no verified season-pass structure or licensed expansion catalog attached to the current PC listing. The long-term content model instead depends on the game's included modes, developer updates, challenge modifiers, and community-created levels.

The Level Editor is particularly important on PC. Players can build custom stages in the original scenario style, create custom textures and music, and share their work through Steam Workshop. The result is a large user-generated content layer that changes the value of the game beyond its built-in maps.

Who should play Paint the Town Red?

This is a strong fit for players who enjoy creative melee combat, physical sandbox systems, violent arcade action, and replayable modes with different rules. It also works well for groups that want online co-op where everyone can improvise with the same chaotic environments.

Players seeking a tightly scripted campaign, realistic combat, stealth depth, or a conventional competitive shooter should set the right expectations. Paint the Town Red is intentionally exaggerated, cartoonishly gory, and often more interested in emergent accidents than carefully choreographed encounters.

Its best audience enjoys experimenting. You will replay scenarios to find better weapons, cleaner routes, hidden interactions, and more reliable ways to handle large groups. Beneath provides deeper progression, while the editor and Workshop supply the strongest reason to keep returning after the core modes are familiar.

PC features, multiplayer, and localization

Steam lists online co-op and cross-platform multiplayer, with co-op available across almost every major mode. The game also supports single-player play, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, leaderboards, family sharing, and Steam Workshop. Full controller support is listed, making a gamepad a practical option for close-range brawling.

Paint the Town Red is distributed through Steam, and the current storefront does not identify a separate anti-cheat system. Steam platform integration handles features such as cloud saves, achievements, Workshop content, and online matchmaking. VR support is associated with the separate Paint the Town Red VR product rather than replacing the standard first-person PC game.

The PC listing provides interface localization across 27 supported languages. English is listed with full audio, while the other languages are presented as interface support. Players who want a first-person brawler with extensive text localization and controller compatibility have a clear set of options without needing a separate launcher ecosystem.

Similar PC games

Players who enjoy brutal arcade brawlers with resource decisions may also appreciate side-scrolling beat 'em ups like Mother Russia Bleeds. The perspective and combat systems differ, but both games emphasize crowd control, improvised weapons, graphic finishers, and learning how to survive hostile groups rather than relying on a deep loot economy.

For the environmental side of Paint the Town Red, physics-focused destruction sandboxes such as Red Faction: Guerrilla offer a useful comparison. Red Faction is a third-person open-world shooter, not a brawler, but both games make physical interaction with the environment part of the appeal instead of treating scenery as decoration.

Shing! is another reasonable comparison for players prioritizing cooperative arcade combat. Its directional sword system and side-scrolling structure are very different, but it shares Paint the Town Red's focus on readable enemy groups, controller-friendly action, and replayable multiplayer encounters.

Paint the Town Red FAQ

The most important buying questions concern the current name, the difference between its modes, the PC-only ecosystem, and how much of the game depends on community content.

Has Paint the Town Red been renamed?

No verified rebrand is currently associated with the standard PC game. Steam continues to list it as Paint the Town Red. Paint the Town Red VR is a separate product and downloadable-content release that requires the base game.

What is included in the base PC game?

The paid base package includes Scenario, Beneath, Arena, Endless, Sandbox, online co-op, controller support, the level editor, and Steam Workshop integration. The soundtrack edition adds audio extras, while the VR content is handled separately.

Does Paint the Town Red have co-op?

Yes. Steam lists online co-op and cross-platform multiplayer, and the developer's description states that friends can join almost every major mode. The game is also fully playable as a single-player experience.

Is Beneath a normal campaign?

Beneath is a roguelite campaign rather than a straightforward linear story mode. It uses classes, upgrades, underground areas, bosses, enemies, secrets, and repeated runs where progression comes from both player knowledge and character improvements.

Does the PC version support custom maps?

Yes. The PC version includes an in-game Level Editor with support for custom textures and music, and Steam Workshop allows players to publish and browse user-created levels. This is one of the clearest differences between the PC ecosystem and versions without the same Workshop toolset.

Which languages are supported?

The Steam listing identifies 27 interface languages. English includes full audio, while the remaining supported languages provide interface localization. No additional full-audio language track is listed for the standard PC product.