A Sloppy Forgeries guide to competitive painting

This is the overview for Sloppy Forgeries before the 13 November 2026 unlock. It stays with the Steam store page, the demo listing, and the official site those pages name. How a round is limited is on Painting. What the pixel score does and does not say is on Accuracy. Online and local party play is on Multiplayer.

What Steam says the game is

The short description on the store:

Sloppy Forgeries is a fast-paced competitive painting game. Practice your skills by butchering iconic masterpieces in one of the few drawing games that measures accuracy pixel-by-pixel in real-time.

The longer pitch is a list of limits. Copy the Mona Lisa with a mouse in three minutes. The store’s own reply to “that’s impossible” is yes. Then it counts what you get: 4–6 colors, three brush sizes named medium, big, and too big, no undo, no fill, and a score based on every pixel you paint.

A later paragraph says you choose from 50 meticulously abstracted paintings from art history. That is the store’s count. This guide does not turn store screenshots into a full catalog. The painting page says which titles are actually legible in those frames.

Fact	What the 12 Nov 2026 check showed
Release	Nov 13, 2026. coming_soon: true on the full game.
Developer	Playful Systems LLC
Publishers	Playful Systems LLC, ENJOYN GAMES
Price	is_free: false. package_groups was empty, so no number was in that payload.
Platforms	Windows. Mac and Linux are false.
Genres	Action, Casual
Players	Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen. Also Steam Cloud, Steam Leaderboards, Family Sharing.
Languages	The full-game language string is English, Japanese. This wiki is English only.
Support	https://playfulsystems.com/ and jonah@playfulsystems.com
Official site	https://sloppyforgeries.com/

Release and the free demo

The full game was still upcoming on 12 November 2026. 13 November 2026 is the planned unlock.

The same store page says a free demo is available. That was still true in the API that day. The demo is its own app, 5274180, named Sloppy Forgeries Demo. is_free is true, type is demo, coming_soon is false, and release_date is 18 Oct 2026. Its fullgame field points at AppID 3030560. Platforms are Windows only. The demo’s requirement block only says a 64-bit processor and operating system. Its language string is English, marked for full audio. The full game’s language string is the separate pair English, Japanese, without that audio note.

The full-game payload’s dlc array also lists 5039270. That app is named Sloppy Forgeries Playtest. Its type field is game, not a content pack. coming_soon is false, the date is 2 Oct 2026, and is_free is false. This page does not describe it as downloadable bonus content, and it does not invent a price for it.

The PC the store asks for

Both the minimum and recommended blocks say an external mouse is required. The game is Windows only.

	Minimum	Recommended
OS	Windows 7, 64-bit	Windows 10, 64-bit
CPU	Intel Core i3 dual core	Intel Core i5–i7 quad core
Memory	4 GB RAM	16 GB RAM
Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 or AMD equivalent	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD equivalent
Storage	500 MB	500 MB
Notes	External mouse	External mouse

required_age is 0. The ratings object included DEJUS 6, Steam Germany 12, and IGRS 3 with the descriptor “Interaksi Daring.” No ESRB rating was in that payload. The content-descriptor list was empty.

Where the rest of the guide goes

Paint. A round is a timed copy with a short palette, three coarse brushes, no undo, and no fill. Assist tools, a tablet note, the piano tracks, and the 50-count catalog are on Painting.

Score. The store’s phrase is pixel-by-pixel, in real time, using every pixel you paint. Steam Leaderboards are listed per painting. The formula is not printed. That limit is the whole point of Accuracy.

Party. Online uses a join code. Local uses two mice on one computer. The store’s examples of random variants are Tiny Brush, Upside Down, and Pointillism. Details and the 7-friends / 8-people wording are on Multiplayer.

Single-player lines on the store, kept here so the party page does not have to repeat them:

• A masterpiece catalog tracks forgery scores and stats across the 50 paintings.
• A painting archive stores every forgery locally.
• Time-lapse replays cover each stroke.
• Replays can be downloaded and shared as animated GIFs.
• Keyboard shortcuts exist for some actions. The store does not print the key list. The sentence jokes that it is not “everything” or “most things.”
• Wacom tablet support is listed, including two tablets at once.
• Music is described as 8 or more randomly selected fast piano pieces that end on a dramatic note. The credit line is Bernd Krueger, source piano-midi.de.

Lines the store page quotes

The store’s review field, not a score this site measured:

• Paste Magazine: “It’s simple and hypercompetitive but also an absolute hoot. I just adore this game.”
• Game Informer: “Fans of Drawful and Draw Something have a new party game to look forward to in Sloppy Forgeries.”
• GameSpot: “If you equally enjoy fine art and crude MS Paint drawings, Sloppy Forgeries is a fun, quick, competitive mash-up of the two.”

The official site, read the same day, says the game has been shown at festivals and names a Video Game Chronicle Award at BitSummit 2026 and Best in Show at Miami @ Play 2018. The exhibition list itself lives on that site. This page does not copy it out.