Ink: Tournament Paintball

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Ink: Tournament Paintball is a single player and multiplayer tactical shooter game. It was developed by Golden Dog Interactive, SAS and was released on November 26, 2023. It received neutral reviews from players.

Tint n Ink is a first person shooter videogame about Paintball, fight & hit your rivals and get fun everytime. Find strategies, use the best techniques and create amazing tactics to destroy your opponents.

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47%

Audience ScoreBased on 167 reviews

gameplay4 positive mentions

music3 negative mentions

The game has potential and is a decent paintball simulation especially appreciated by those who enjoy paintball in real life.
Developer is friendly, active, and responsive, with an engaged Discord community supporting the game during its early access and alpha stages.
Some updates have improved the game's stability and gameplay, making it more enjoyable when playing with friends or bots.

Severe issues with hit registration, bugs, lag, and AI behavior make the game often frustrating and unplayable for many players.
The online player base is very sparse or nonexistent, limiting multiplayer game availability and forcing reliance on bots with poor behavior.
The game suffers from heavy monetization and pay-to-win elements despite poor polish and missing key features, with many complaints about microtransactions and unfair pricing.

gameplay
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
57%
43%
The gameplay receives mixed feedback, with praise for its concept and community but criticism for flawed mechanics, unresponsive controls, and poor hit registration. Players also note the need for smoother movement, additional mechanics like stances, and better audio quality. Overall, the game shows potential but requires significant improvement in core gameplay elements.
- “Mechanics need some work (additions like stances to see over walls) and some different player models, but for a team that's been out less than 2 months, I highly recommend it. The community is amazing too.”
- “It would be really nice to have smoother movement with a vault mechanic.”
- “So the concept and premise of this game are great; however, the mechanics are flawed at best, with janky and relatively unresponsive controls and poor hit registration during gameplay.”
- “I assume that you'd have to go through microtransactions to get more markers, which would make it a pay to win game, but it's hard to tell how the shop works when it doesn't let you access it unless you grind gameplay with the starter kit.”
- “Mechanics need some work (additions like stances - standing up to see over walls) and some different player models.”
- “Unity asset flip, terrible gameplay.”
graphics
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
The graphics receive mixed feedback, ranging from poor visibility and awkwardly dark or glitchy maps to praise for being high-quality, beautiful, and well-optimized for mid-range GPUs. While some users find the visuals lacking, others commend the game's detailed and appealing graphics.
- “Amazing high quality game 10/10 graphics, would recommend to jump on in and give it a go. The developer is very dedicated and frequently produces new content.”
- “Graphics are beautiful and not taxing on my RTX 1080 at all.”
- “It's difficult to see the paint beyond a few feet, and one map is awkwardly dark, another has yellow inflatables making the default yellow paint practically invisible, and another has a graphics issue making everything white.”
- “Fun game, bad graphics and shot registration is poor.”
- “It's difficult to see the paint beyond a few feet; one map is awkwardly dark, another has yellow inflatables making the default yellow paint practically invisible, and another has a graphics issue making everything white.”
- “I've seen better graphics on an Etch A Sketch.”
music
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
75%
The music, especially the menu theme, is widely criticized for being repetitive and not fitting the game's tone, with some users finding it annoying and wish for an option to adjust volume. Overall, it is considered a disappointing aspect of the game.
- “I relaxed for 5 minutes to this music long enough to realize that I was going to be okay.”
- “I also wish they would allow you to turn down the music in the menu but I'm sure they will add that in soon.”
- “The menu music makes the game feel like a joke, and unfortunately it loops.”
- “A huge disappointment just like the in-game music.”
- “I also wish they would allow you to turn down the music in the menu, but I'm sure they will add that in soon.”
monetization
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25%
75%
The monetization heavily relies on microtransactions, which some players perceive as potentially pay-to-win due to limited access without grinding. Despite a solid gameplay foundation, excessive focus on selling in-game purchases and shark cards, coupled with unresolved bugs, frustrates players and detracts from the overall experience.
- “I assume that you'd have to go through microtransactions to get more markers, which would make it a pay to win game, but it's hard to tell how the shop works when it doesn't let you access it unless you grind gameplay with the starter kit.”
- “Spends more time and money on advertising and trying to get players to buy shark cards, maybe if you would actually fix some of the bugs (which takes some development skill) the player count would be above 0.6 players per 30 days.”
- “They have the absolute basics of an FPS down and they already set up all the microtransactions they possibly could.”
stability
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game's stability has improved recently, making gameplay much smoother compared to earlier buggy versions with problematic bots. However, users still experience issues such as frequent bugs, audio glitches, unresponsive menus, and occasional kicks from casual games, indicating room for further optimization.
- “It's very buggy, and I try to join a casual game and get kicked when I want to level up quickly.”
- “Additionally, I had quite a few audio glitches, and the settings menu was laggy and unresponsive. Overall, the idea of the game is great and it would be well executed if the base mechanics and settings were made better and more end user friendly.”
- “Played the game a few months ago. Everything was so buggy and the bots had aim bot, but now it feels a lot smoother and the recent updates are making me happy.”
story
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33%
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The story element presents a mix of motivational themes about perseverance but is undermined by frustrating gameplay mechanics like lengthy, repetitive missions and limited content variety, making progression feel tedious and unrewarding.
- “Moral of the story, you never know what life holds in store for you, and if I had given up when all the odds were stacked against me, I wouldn't be where I am today.”
- “There's FOMO in the form of daily missions to 'claim all the rewards you can,' which seem broken.”
- “It needs a lot of work; currently, extremely long missions like hitting 1000 people for like 50 bucks is the only way to make money for new gear, and the new gear is 500 to 1000 bucks each, so very time consuming.”
- “Only one set of clothes for both teams and only one color of paintballs.”
optimization
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game's optimization has significantly declined after an update, resulting in poor performance and a shift from a free, acceptable experience to a paid product with notable technical issues. Users advise caution regarding expectations for smooth gameplay.
- “This game was free and more or less okay, but after some update, everything went to hell and the game turned into an unoptimized paid garbage.”
- “Give it a try, but don't expect multi-million dollar platform performance.”
humor
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The humor in the game is light and casual, with some dialogue delivering simple, amusing moments like "ow it hurts" that provide occasional laughs.