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Tag: The Power of Paint

Tag Team · DigiPen Institute of Technology · 2022-04-18

Steam

ActionFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: May 01, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The world is your canvas in this innovative first-person puzzle platformer. Tag walls and other surfaces with different colors of spray paint to reveal new ways to navigate each level, including bouncing off, sliding across, and sticking to the surfaces you paint.

96%
positive of 1.0k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)
Tag: The Power of Paint is a 2008 puzzle-platform game. The game was developed for Microsoft Windows by Tag Team, a group of students from the DigiPen Institute of Technology. The game's core mechanics is the use of a special paint sprayed from the player's paint gun to impart physical properties to surfaces, which, in turn, affect the user's movement. Tag won the Independent Games Festival Student Showcase award in the same year. The project team was hired by Valve, using the concepts of Tag as new puzzle elements in their game Portal 2.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 72 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 18,048 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

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