Get on Steam"Arto is a single-player Fantasy Role Playing Game with impressive graphics. As an Apostle to a dying god, your mission is to return color to a hostile world and uncover the mystery behind its color loss. Utilize the Paint Arrow, your returned-color boon, and customize your gameplay with over 80 spell combinations."
Reviews
- Beautiful visuals and vibrant art style that enhance the gameplay experience.
- Engaging combat mechanics and a unique concept of coloring the world, making it fun and satisfying.
- Intriguing story and rich worldbuilding that keeps players hooked.
- Severe optimization issues, including low frame rates and game-breaking bugs that hinder playability.
- Lack of developer support for fixing reported bugs, leading to frustration among players.
- Movement controls are unchangeable, which can be uncomfortable for some players.
- graphics12 mentions
- 75 % positive mentions
- 17 % neutral mentions
- 8 % negative mentions
The graphics of the game are widely praised for their beautiful visuals, unique art style, and vibrant animations, contributing to an aesthetically pleasing experience. While many players appreciate the fluid combat and overall artistic presentation, some have reported performance issues, such as lag during exploration, which detracts from the enjoyment. Overall, the game's visuals are a standout feature, enhancing its appeal as an indie title.
“Beautiful visuals!”
“The art style and animations are great, combat also feels fluid.”
“Bright, vibrant, and easy to pick up indie gem with responsive combat and gorgeous visuals.”
“I really like the concept and art style, but right now I don't want to play further because during exploration, the game is severely lagging.”
- gameplay7 mentions
- 43 % positive mentions
- 29 % neutral mentions
- 29 % negative mentions
The gameplay is praised for its fun and engaging mechanics, featuring a unique blend of hack and slash combat and customizable paint-magic elements. Players appreciate the intriguing story and rich worldbuilding, making it easy to pick up while offering surprising depth. Overall, the game delivers a fresh take on familiar gameplay styles, enhanced by appealing artwork.
“The game has fun gameplay with an intriguing story and rich worldbuilding for the time that I spent playing.”
“Easy to pick up and surprisingly deep game mechanically.”
“It's a totally fresh take on world building, riding on top of very solid and familiar hack and slash combat mechanics.”
“Its a totally fresh take on world building, riding on top of very solid and familiar hack and slash combat mechanics.”
“I was almost halfway through before I realized how unique and customizable the paint-magic mechanics are!”
- optimization6 mentions
- 17 % positive mentions
- 33 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The game's optimization has received mixed reviews, with many players experiencing significant frame drops and stuttering, particularly in the main overworld and during mid to late game. While some users noted improvements following recent patches, others still find the game unplayable without further optimization. Overall, it remains a fun experience but is hindered by its current performance issues.
“The game is fun, but it's currently unplayable mid to late game; the game drops frames really hard and stutters constantly. Unless they get it fully optimized, I'd avoid it.”
“Unoptimized and low quality.”
“The only issue I really had with this hidden gem were frame drops and stuttering in the main overworld. If the devs fix that, I may have found my Game of the Year for 2023, and it's only July.”
“Highly recommended despite some optimization issues.”
- story4 mentions
- 75 % positive mentions
- -25 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The game's story is noted for its intriguing elements and rich worldbuilding, appealing to fans of creative and artistic designs. However, some players found the narrative less engaging, often skimming through the text. Overall, it offers a unique experience, though its depth may vary for different players.
“The game has fun gameplay with an intriguing story and rich worldbuilding for the time that I spent playing.”
“Highly recommend you give it a try if you're interested in hack'n'slash, creative/artistic design, action RPG, kind of out there/different concepts or storylines.”
“From the storyline to the graphics to the banger music, it's all unique!”
“The story is whatever; I wasn't really paying much attention and ended up just skimming through the text, to be honest.”
“The storyline lacks depth and fails to engage the player, making it easy to lose interest.”
- music4 mentions
- 75 % positive mentions
- 25 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The music in the game has received positive feedback, with many praising the soundtrack as both unique and engaging, enhancing the overall experience alongside the storyline and graphics. Users highlight the quality of the original score, describing it as a standout feature that complements the gameplay effectively.
“From the storyline to the graphics to the banger music, it's all unique!”
“The music is amazing, combat satisfying, and coloring the world is definitely a unique feature.”
“The soundtrack was really good too.”
- stability1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- -200 % neutral mentions
- 300 % negative mentions
Overall, users find the game's stability to be decent, though it does exhibit some minor bugs that can affect the experience.
“It's fairly nice, but it's slightly buggy.”
“The game crashes frequently, making it hard to enjoy.”
“I experienced constant lag and glitches that ruined the gameplay.”
- replayability1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game has limited replayability, leading some players to feel that their time spent on it was not worthwhile.
“This game does not have much replayability, and I consider my time wasted.”
- grinding1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- -200 % neutral mentions
- 300 % negative mentions
Players find the grinding aspect tedious, particularly noting that even short delays of a few seconds can feel frustrating and disrupt the flow of gameplay.
“Honestly, it feels tedious to sit through like 3 seconds of nothing every time. It may not sound like much, but it really adds up.”
“The grinding is so repetitive that it becomes a chore rather than an enjoyable part of the game.”
“I find the grinding to be excessively time-consuming, making it hard to stay engaged with the game.”
