Sloppy Forgeries painting, under the limits the store prints

Competitive painting in Sloppy Forgeries is the store’s own joke played straight: you are asked to copy a masterpiece, then handed tools that make a faithful copy unlikely. The guide has the release and the spec. The accuracy page is the score. Party rules are on multiplayer.

The limits, in the store’s words

Limit	Store wording checked 12 Nov 2026
Subject	Copy famous paintings. The opening example is the Mona Lisa.
Clock	“In three minutes” is the Mona Lisa pitch. Results screens also say TIME’S UP.
Colors	4–6 colors.
Brushes	3 sizes: medium, big, and too big.
Undo	None.
Fill	None.
Input	An external mouse is required on both the minimum and recommended spec. A Wacom tablet is also listed, including two at once.
Score	Every pixel you paint. See Accuracy.

“No undo” means a stroke stays in the picture the scorer is judging. The store does not print a penalty number for a bad stroke. “No fill” means the page does not describe a bucket tool. This site does not add one.

The brush names are the store’s joke about coarse tools. They are not a millimeter chart. Tiny Brush appears later as a named variant example, on the party list, and is not the same sentence as the three default sizes.

Clocks the page will not reconcile

The pitch uses three minutes for the Mona Lisa. Store screenshots of other rounds show other timers, including a reading of 0:21:41 on a portrait whose plaque says Frans Hals, Laughing Cavalier, 1624, and a reading of 1:13:07 on a portrait whose plaque says Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665. Separate results frames say TIME’S UP.

Those are labels in the images. The store page does not say whether every painting shares one clock, whether practice and party use different clocks, or whether a screenshot timer is time remaining or time used. This page does not publish a per-painting time table.

What you can turn on during a round

Assist tools. Time-limited tools to spot differences. The examples in parentheses are pins and grids. One store screenshot shows a grid over both canvases in a side-by-side pearl-earring round. The page does not assert that the grid in the picture is the timed assist rather than something else, because the screenshot has no caption that says so.

Feedback. A bar moves up and down while you paint. The accuracy page describes the labels around that bar.

Keyboard shortcuts. The store says shortcuts cover some actions. It strikes through “everything” and “most things” and leaves “some things.” No key table is printed.

Music. Eight or more fast piano pieces, chosen at random, written to end dramatically. Credit: Bernd Krueger. Source: piano-midi.de. No track list is on the store page.

Tablet. Wacom tablet support, and the line “or two… at once.” The mouse requirement on the spec block is still there.

After the round. The single-player list adds a local painting archive, time-lapse replays of each stroke, and GIF downloads of those replays. Steam Cloud is a separate category on the app. The archive line says “stored locally.” This page does not claim the archive and the cloud save are the same folder.

The catalog of 50

The store says you choose from 50 meticulously abstracted paintings from art history, and that the single-player catalog tracks scores across those 50. The official site repeats the count of 50.

One store screenshot of the picker shows Mona Lisa selected, the line “50 on canvas,” and the dates 1503–1519 under Leonardo da Vinci. Collection labels visible in that same frame include Minimalism, Baroque, Renaissance, and Neoclassical. Other titles legible in that frame are Portrait of the Duke of Urbino, Self-Portrait, The Arnolfini Portrait, and Sistine Madonna. A different screenshot’s plaque reads Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, 1915. Another frame’s plaque reads Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889, and one of the store trailers is titled “Starry Night Local Multiplayer.”

Variants are a party heading

Under Party Modes, the store says you can play with absurd variants “like” Tiny Brush, Upside Down, and Pointillism. “Like” means the line is examples. The official site’s variant sentence is shorter and incomplete (“Play with absurd.”), so the names used here come from Steam. How they enter a lobby is on the multiplayer page. This page does not describe a ruleset for Pointillism or Upside Down beyond the names.