Games like Paint the Town Red
If Paint the Town Red is your kind of game, the closest matches are Clone Drone in the Danger Zone, Melon Simulator™ and Drunken Fist 2: Zombie Hangover — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its modifiers add replayability, sandbox freedom and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Paint the Town Red is a first-person action indie game released in 2021 by South East Games, available for $19.99 USD. Set across various time periods and locations, players navigate arena-based combat where everything not nailed down functions as a weapon. The game features a durability system, instant-kill mechanics, and a rogue-like beneath mode, with modifiers adding significant replayability. Reviewers highlight the satisfying gore and blood effects, and players describe the overall experience as darkly funny and lighthearted despite its challenging combat. The massive sandbox freedom extends further through thousands of community workshop levels supported by mod systems. The game runs verified on Steam Deck and holds a 96% positive rating from 13,399 Steam reviews.
About Paint the Town Red: Paint the Town Red is a chaotic first person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn't nailed down.
Players who liked Paint the Town Red also play
Steam players who put hours into Paint the Town Red also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Paint the Town Red.
Top pick for Paint the Town Red fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off. With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.
Melon Simulator™
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Paint the Town Red.
Second-strongest match for Paint the Town Red fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Melon Simulator™ is a chaotic, co-op (1 - 4 players), first person melee combat game. Almost anything that isn't nailed down can be used to whack, slice, and throw at the oncoming melon hoard...
Drunken Fist 2: Zombie Hangover
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Paint the Town Red fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Filled with blood, gore and loss of limbs depicted in light-hearted low-poly style, Drunken Fist 2: Zombie Hangover is a whimsical take on survival horror, featuring physics-based beat ‘em up action and ragdoll takedowns that no sober player would take seriously.
DESERT KILL
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Paint the Town Red fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
DESERT KILL is a roguelite top-down shooter where you have to destroy evil forces in the most brutal way!
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Paint the Town Red.
Ranked #5 for Paint the Town Red fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Rampage Knights
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Paint the Town Red.
Ranked #6 for Paint the Town Red fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.
Spartan Fist
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Paint the Town Red fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Fight your way to fame, fortune and glory in this first-person puncher roguelite as you work to retrieve the fabled Spartan Fist. Tap your inner badass, and punch dudes so hard they explode.
Katana Kata
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Paint the Town Red.
Ranked #8 for Paint the Town Red fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Indie souls-like with innovative fight system where you practice your Katana on the path for endless improvement; again and again.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Paint the Town Red
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Teardown
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Paint the Town Red.
Reviewers of Paint the Town Red cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paint the Town Red cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Sonic Generations Collection
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paint the Town Red cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Paint the Town Red.
Celebrate 20 years of Sonic in an all new adventure that delivers a definitive experience to Sonic fans new and old!
ELDERBORN
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Paint the Town Red.
Reviewers of Paint the Town Red cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
ELDERBORN - a Metal AF* Slasher with brutal FPP melee combat and souls-like/RPG character progression. In the times of legend, barbarian tribes need a new dark messiah. Be that merciless slayer. Uncover ancient secrets in the city of doom. Forge your own destiny! *Action Fantasy.
Hotline Miami
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Paint the Town Red.
Reviewers of Paint the Town Red cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Sunset Overdrive
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Paint the Town Red.
Reviewers of Paint the Town Red cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Paint the Town Red.
Sunset Overdrive transforms an open-world apocalypse into your tactical playground. Zip, grind and wall-run across Sunset City with an unconventional arsenal. Hyper-agility, unique weapons, and customizable abilities deliver an explosive and irreverent adventure in the end times.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a dark mood with Paint the Town Red.
Reviewers of Paint the Town Red cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Just Cause™ 3
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Paint the Town Red.
Reviewers of Paint the Town Red cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Paint the Town Red.
With over 1000 km² of complete freedom from sky to seabed, Rico Rodriguez returns to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways imaginable.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paint the Town Red at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Paint the Town Red on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paint the Town Red on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paint the Town Red on Steam right now. Shares Action with Paint the Town Red.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a dark mood with Paint the Town Red.
Priced ~50% under Paint the Town Red on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paint the Town Red on Steam right now. Shares Action with Paint the Town Red.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paint the Town Red.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Paint the Town Red.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Paint the Town Red.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Frequently asked about Paint the Town Red
- Is Paint the Town Red verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Paint the Town Red is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Paint the Town Red cost?
- Paint the Town Red is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Paint the Town Red have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Paint the Town Red supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Paint the Town Red?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paint the Town Red are Clone Drone in the Danger Zone, Melon Simulator™, Drunken Fist 2: Zombie Hangover.
- Who developed Paint the Town Red?
- Paint the Town Red was developed by South East Games.
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