Sloppy Forgeries is out now on Steam, giving you three minutes to reproduce famous paintings with a mouse and considerably less dignity than you started with. Playful Systems’ competitive painting game launched on 13 November, and it’s currently £10.53 in the UK thanks to a 15% introductory discount from £12.39.
The premise is wonderfully cruel. Pick one of 50 simplified masterpieces and try to match it while the game measures your accuracy pixel by pixel, with real-time feedback showing how things are going. You get a restricted palette and three brush sizes, but there’s no undo button or fill tool waiting to rescue a particularly ambitious mistake.
Online multiplayer supports up to eight people in private matches, so an evening can become a collective argument over whose Mona Lisa looks least like a startled potato. Local competitive play takes a different route, allowing two players to plug separate mice into the same computer and paint head-to-head.
The full release spreads its paintings across ten collections and adds variants that change the challenge, including Pointillism, Tiny Brush and Pixelated. Tablet support is included too, which might be reassuring if your confidence has survived the earlier mention of a countdown.
Solo players have a catalogue tracking scores and statistics, Steam leaderboards and a local archive of their attempts. Time-lapse replays let you revisit how an image took shape, and animated GIF exports make it possible to share the evidence afterwards. Whether that evidence is flattering is very much your problem.
A free demo remains available on the official Steam page, so there’s a way to try the idea before buying. The developer’s public press kit confirms the modes and features, with the game currently available for Windows PC.