Chinese Brush Simulator
Short version: Game is about calligraphy and painting in ancient China. The controls are really weird, but the game is really enjoyable once you get used to them.
Full version: This is a pretty chill game about going through the process of calligraphy/painting in ancient China. It’s relaxing until you start messing up strokes, then your inner perfectionist keeps nagging at you to try harder until eventually you have a beautiful piece of art in front of you. You can apply paintings to nearby hanging scrolls, panels, and vases. Since it also allows you to just upload images from your computer, you can make a ton of ridiculous things and put it in the game, like random memes and such, or even painting a meme, and then using that painting to decorate things around the room (you can upload images to your painting scroll so that you can just trace them with the brush if you want the “brush” effect, or you can just upload the images directly to the decor). The overall experience is really nice, especially if you like the ancient Chinese art.
– Real player with 76.3 hrs in game
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– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
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After finishing the whole game, despite of my strong objections that I’ve written about in my original review (below), I’ve decided to change my review into thumbs up.
It took me some time to analyze my thoughts, and while I still have strong objections about inconsistency of various gameplay mechanics, the game truly has a charm, is well done and doesn’t deserve negative review, even if as a programmer purely analyzing the consistency of the gameplay I’d rate it negatively without a second thought.
– Real player with 30.3 hrs in game
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Let me start off by saying that I actually really enjoyed playing the game. The challenges are fun to solve and while they generally were not very difficult, I often found myself going back to old exercises and solving them in different ways.
Nevertheless, with the current state of the game, I cannot recommend it since there are just too many flaws that I cannot overlook even for an early access title.
Many of these are easily fixable,which is why I will go over the major problems one by one so that the developer(s) can consider my feedback.
– Real player with 25.1 hrs in game