Hybrid sandbox-roguelike melee brawler featured in UploadVR Showcase
QUEENSLAND, Australia – June 14, 2023 – Paint the Town Red, the first-person brawler with sandbox combat levels and a massive roguelike mode from South East Games, makes the madcap melee even more personal in VR on Steam, PlayStation VR2, and Meta Quest 2 in early 2024, as announced at the Upload VR Showcase earlier today.
Following its highly popular 1.0 release in 2021, Paint the Town Red comes out swinging in VR in a violent voxel world made for destruction. Obliterate enemies and obstacles in a crimson splash of blocks through fast paced melee combat. Take prospective brawlers on a bruising trip through punishing arenas above and below ground. Fight hand-to-hand or unpack an arsenal of more than 200 weapons ranging anywhere from pool cues and giant ham legs to futuristic firearms and blades.
Pick a bar fight for the ages in Scenarios mode, exploring different timelines through high octane sandbox arenas. Start scraps in unexpected locations like a rowdy Biker Bar, a Disco, an old Western Saloon, an early ‘90s Prison, and a Pirate Cove, each with a slew of enemies armed and ready with period accurate weaponry. Fight to the bloody end in the Arena mode, a gauntlet of increasingly difficult waves of combat.
Sink to the depths in Beneath mode, a roguelike dungeon crawling experience where the real monsters come out to play. Infiltrate an underground network infested with undead creatures and unravel spine-tingling mysteries in each procedurally generated run. Solve puzzles, explore caves and ruins, and gain class specific abilities like teleportation and necromancy. Face off against the ultimate evil in the form of four devastating Elder Gods. Choose from one of five classes to customize and upgrade, from the fireball wielding Warlock to the lightning-fast Spectre.
“The first person intuitive gameplay of Paint the Town Red made a VR experience an obvious and natural progression of the game,” said Matthew Carr, South East Games, Co-founder. “Immersion and creativity are at the heart of Paint the Town Red and now the possibilities are massively expanded, offering what we feel is the wildest and most chaotic fun VR experience..”
Paint the Town Red VR will launch in early 2024 on Quest 2 VR for $19.99, PlayStation VR2 for $19.99 with a discount for existing PlayStation owners of Paint the Town Red, and on Steam VR as a $9.99 add on DLC. The base version of Paint the Town Red is available now on Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, in addition to Steam for Windows PC, Mac, and Linux.
For more information, please visit Paint the Town Red’s official website, follow South East Games on Twitter, and search #PTTR or #PaintTheTownRed.
About South East Games
Founded by cousins Matthew and Shane Carr in 2009, working as programmer and artist respectively, the duo worked nights and weekends to release a handful of small iOS games while working at larger companies by day including THQ and The Creative Assembly. Unhappy with working on the smaller aspects of larger titles, they wanted to work on something fresh and new, and achieved that with Paint the Town Red, which debuted on Steam Early Access in 2015 and readies its 1.0 and console debut in 2021.
South East Games has worked with Jeff van Dyck on Paint the Town Red. The two-time BAFTA award winning Composer and Audio Director, known for his emotive scores and immersive audio design in video games over the last two decades such as his work in the Total War series, Alien Isolation, and EA classics like Need for Speed and FIFA.
