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A paintbrush-wielding artist explores a crumbling inner world, battling foes and platforming through a landscape shaped by her struggles.
Released 24 Nov 2025
Paint-Dash Through Walls
Sketch Ability Builds
Balance Paint Corruption
Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.
Developed by Blue Backpack · Published by Blue Backpack, ByteRockers' Games, PARCO GAMES
Play as Constance, an artist navigating a colorful but deteriorating inner world tied to her declining mental health. Its connected areas, characters, and enemies reflect parts of her psyche and personal history.
Use a paintbrush to attack, dive through ground and walls, and move through platform challenges. Explore branching routes, uncover secrets, solve puzzles, take on foes and bosses, and revisit areas as you gain new techniques.
Brush techniques consume Paint and can cause corruption if overused. Find inspirations to sketch in Constance’s journal, customize her abilities, and gather materials to improve those sketches. After death, choose to continue in place against empowered enemies or return to a safe point; playable flashbacks reveal moments from her past.
Many reviewers praise the hand-drawn art and expressive animation, along with the paint-based movement and platforming. Some also connect with the story’s themes of burnout and mental health, or enjoy its music and relatively compact adventure. Opinions are mixed on how well the story is developed and how satisfying the exploration, boss fights, and tougher platforming sections feel.
Utilize paint-based mechanics to experience a constant state of flow—dive into the ground and walls, slice through the air and enemies!
Become stronger by unlocking new techniques with your brush that aid you in defeating threatening foes, overcoming platform challenges, solving complex puzzles, and advancing your progress.
Explore Constance's non-linear interconnected world and discover countless secrets, abilities, upgrades, characters, side quests, and inspiring moments.
Using your brush techniques will corrupt your Paint. If you become fully corrupted, negative effects await you, so be wary!
Use inspirations that you find on your travels to sketch in your journal. Your sketches enhance and customize Constance's capabilities. By gathering materials, you can upgrade your sketches into even stronger artworks.
Upon death, choose how to continue your journey. Do you want to persevere through the challenge, at a price? Or do you return to a safe point and explore other unbeaten paths?
The inner world is strongly connected to Constance's mental health journey, with each colorful biome and its unique set of enemies and characters representing different aspects of her psyche and personal history.
Experience playable flashbacks about personal struggle, creativity, work-life-balance, and inner purpose. Step into Constance's socks to uncover her past!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 33 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 81/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
