Sloppy Forgeries multiplayer uses a join code or two mice

Party play in Sloppy Forgeries is two modes on the store page, plus a short list of variant examples. The painting limits are on Painting. The score those modes display is on Accuracy. Release, demo, and the Windows spec are on the guide.

Online: a join code

Steam’s party line: use a join code to play with up to 7 friends online.

The official site’s matching line, read 12 Nov 2026: play online with friends, lobbies with up to 8 people.

A store screenshot of a results screen shows eight ranked rows beside a Mona Lisa reference, under the label “ROUND 1 OF 1,” with buttons for End, Lobby, and Play again. Eight rows fit the official site’s lobby size. “Up to 7 friends” is the other printed phrase. The two sentences can describe one room. This page does not add a seat that neither source prints, and it does not decide which wording a future patch will keep.

The names and percents in that screenshot stay in the image. They are not a friends list and not a live ranking. See Accuracy for why screenshot numbers are not records.

Categories that sit next to this mode: Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, and Steam Leaderboards. The demo app lists the same multiplayer categories, plus “Game demo.” This site has not opened a demo lobby.

Local: two mice, one computer

The store heading is “Mouse-v-Mouse Local Multiplayer.” The text asks if you have two mice, tells you to say BYOM (bring your own mouse), and puts both players on the same computer. The asterisk on that line points at “Windows Only.”

The official site shortens it to two-mouse local multiplayer, head-to-head on one PC.

The category list also includes Shared/Split Screen and Shared/Split Screen PvP. Store screenshots of versus rounds show two canvases side by side, each with its own accuracy bar and, in the gridded frame, its own color row. This page calls that side-by-side because that is what the images show. It does not invent a layout name beyond the category the API already uses.

A trailer on the store is titled “Starry Night Local Multiplayer.” One results screenshot is a two-canvas Starry Night frame with a WINNER banner. That is the local-multiplayer evidence the store actually attached. It is not a map of every local option.

The spec block still says an external mouse is required. For this mode the store asks for two of them. A Wacom line elsewhere says a tablet, or two at once. That is a feature sentence, not a requirement that local play must be played on tablets.

Variants the store names

Still under Party Modes: random variants, “like” Tiny Brush, Upside Down, and Pointillism.

Use those three as examples. The word “like” is doing real work. A fourth name that is not on the store page does not belong on this one. The official site’s variant line is cut short and is not used as a second list.

No store sentence says how often a variant is drawn, whether the host picks it, or what Pointillism changes about the brush. Tiny Brush is also not silently merged with the three default sizes (medium, big, and too big). Those default sizes are the painting-feature sentence. Tiny Brush is the variant example.

Tips that stay inside the printed rules

These are the constraints a party inherits. They are not a strategy tier list.

• Bring the external mouse the spec requires. For local play, the store’s plan is two mice on one Windows PC.
• Enter an online party with the session join code. There is nothing to redeem on this site.
• The painting limits travel with you: 4–6 colors, three coarse default brushes, no undo, no fill, and a clock. The Mona Lisa pitch says three minutes. Other screenshots show other timers. Do not assume one clock for every lobby. Details are on Painting.
• The rank the store shows is accuracy. A versus screenshot puts a percent on each player and a winner on the higher one. How the percent is built is not published. Details are on Accuracy.
• Assist tools are time-limited. Pins and grids are the examples. A variant can change the round. The named examples are above.
• The full game was still coming soon on 12 Nov 2026. A demo app exists and lists multiplayer categories. This page does not report a demo lobby, because nobody played one for this guide.