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I love this game in theory. It's the kind of mellow, arty game I absolutely adore. But this game is bugged to an unacceptable degree a year plus after release. You are a painter whose moved into a cheap apartment in Montreal. You will be navigating the city -- but get this -- its a black and white version of the town and you have to paint it in. As you color in the city districts, you get stamps that you can turn into bespoke artwork that you will use to put on an exhibition. You can sell your doodles, but its faster to do quests where you take artwork commissions. The clients want specific things and if you deliver, you can get a good chunk of change, which you'll need to pay for the exhibition gallery. Unfortunately, as beautiful as the game looks and as soothing as the game play is when it works, it bugs out way to much. Zones take too long to load and the game will frequently crash. Early in the game, I almost quit after the game started crashing on one particular area of the city. I got it to stop crashing by dropping the graphics quality but I dreaded going into this area because the load times (already too long) took twice as long to load as everywhere else and kept pl…

This game has been a delightful find. After so many hours of gunfights, swordfights, monsters and zombies, this game finally offers relaxed creativity. You play a painter newly arrived in Montreal, Canada, who has to fund his/her new life in the city by painting and selling works commissioned by people he meets. The game lets you paint everything you can see using simple keyboard and mouse effects or your controller. I spend many a happy hour painting house exteriors, market stalls, home interiors, street furniture, sky, trees - everything! I've still got so much left to discover as I explore the city further, and I'm eager to find out what challenges the game might set me. At least I won't get mugged down an alley...

I would recommend this if you want satisfying, artsy completion game mechanics. The world was much bigger than expected, and I like that you can do your own pace or quests as they come. Not for everyone, so check out some gameplay examples before buying!

So, the only way I know to recommend this one is to say that I started the game up to take a quick look before moving onto the other game I had in process. Many hours later, I'm still playing this one...

Lovely relaxing music. Beautiful watercolour-style world.

Very relaxing game with a beautiful and unique art style!