Games like Paintra
If Paintra is your kind of game, the closest matches are ROPES - Race Edition, Hyper Mirror Run and Toziuha Night: Nosferatu's Curse — picked from the ranked list below. 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 →About Paintra: Leap, roll, and swing through a vibrant watercolour world under threat by the spreading Smudge! Master momentum-based platforming, launch yourself with a trusty boomerang, and chain moves together to unlock secrets in this challenging, physics-infused 2D platforming adventure.
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ROPES - Race Edition
WHY THIS
Top pick for Paintra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paintra.
Challenge friends to intense split-screen racing or scale heights solo to top of the leaderboard. A bold leap into RETRO NOSTALGIA reimagined for a new generation! Fluid 3D animations & realistic rope physics. Hilarious hazards requiring skill and impeccable timing! And whatever you do. DON’T FALL!
Hyper Mirror Run
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Paintra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paintra.
Race head-to-head in the exciting world of HYPER MIRROR RUN. Compete locally with your friends or challenge an AI opponent. Navigate through mirrored worlds, mastering precision jumps and wielding weapons to triumph over foes. Dive into this 2D platformer for fast-action and a lot of fun!
Toziuha Night: Nosferatu's Curse
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Paintra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paintra.
Eight years have passed since the battle against Dracula, the hero of Transylvania who succumbed to the power of darkness. However, peace is once again in danger. A pair of young alchemists will fight against the curse of the demon who goes by the name Nosferatu.
CHIP & THE RED STORM
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Paintra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paintra.
Run as fast as you can through this fast-paced 2D side-scrolling platformer! Deal with wacky enemies and bosses covering every track of your path. Sit down by yourself or with friends in this pixel 80's-90's inspired indie game and seal your decided fate of their world.
Platverse: ABYA's Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Paintra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paintra.
A hardcore platform-action game! Robot ABYA wakes up in the depths of end - times ruins. With a special water gun, it starts to uncover the apocalypse's truth. As it explores underground ruins, ABYA leaps, climbs, and shoots, pushing survival limits and gradually revealing doomsday mysteries.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Paintra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paintra.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Aeon Drive
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Paintra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paintra.
Rush through the cyberpunk landscapes of Neo Barcelona in Aeon Drive, an action-platformer with a speedrunning twist! Whether solo or in up to 4 player co-op, sprint and dash through many areas of the neon-infused city - and use your time and space-bending abilities to get ahead.
Neon Inferno
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Paintra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Paintra.
NYC 2055: a city beyond salvation. Blast your way through this dense cyberpunk jungle in NEON INFERNO, an explosive fusion of 2D run-and-gun and gallery-shooter, and help the Family dominate its streets!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Paintra.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paintra.
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 and Adventure with Paintra.
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 Paintra.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paintra.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paintra.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Paintra.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Paintra
- Does Paintra have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Paintra supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Paintra?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paintra are ROPES - Race Edition, Hyper Mirror Run, Toziuha Night: Nosferatu's Curse.
- Who developed Paintra?
- Paintra was developed by Anton Retro and published by Retrospect Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Paintra.
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