I wouldn’t call Paint by Pixel 2 a game. It’s a virtual paint by numbers kit. You have a black and white canvas filled with numbered squares. Then on the right is a bank of colored numbers. So paint the three color in the three square. There are several sizes of pictures, ranging from tiny to massive. The bigger the picture, the more colors that are used and the more intricate the design. Best of all, you cannot screw up, because you can’t paint the wrong color in the wrong square. But Paint by Pixel 2’s biggest strength is also its biggest weakness.
You see, in Paint By Pixel 2 you can select brush size. Since you can’t mess up. You just scribble the pixels and the color fills in. In fact, you can even just fill the section with the color, negating the scribbling all together. And when you get down to a few pixels missed, just click auto-solve and the remaining pixels fill in automatically. This actually a very helpful feature.
Paint by Pixel 2 is a cheap copy of paint by numbers. Because off all the short cuts you can take, there isn’t pride in a creating a beautiful image. Just scribbling until completion isn’t the point of paint by numbers. The numbers are just a guide for novice painters to paint the image. There’s none of that feeling of pride in completion here. It is for that reason I’m giving Paint By Pixel 2 a YMMV with a seven back-end score. There isn’t anything broken here, I just don’t see the point in buying this. You’re better off playing Piczle Lines 2 or a picross game. At the least those are actual puzzles.
Overall: Paint by Pixel 2 misses the point of paint by numbers and therefore just feels hollow and pointless to play.
Verdict: YMMV
| Release Date | 10/24/24 |
| Cost | $9.99 |
| Publisher | Ocean Media |
| ESRB Rating | E |
