#I spent 1,700 hours coloring pixels in a sport—and its sequel is already stealing extra of my time – Destructoid

I’ve practically 1,700 hours in a coloring ebook sport. My go-to destress video games are cozy farming simulators, nostalgic titles that take me again down reminiscence lane, and a cute coloring ebook sport, Coloring Pixels. I’d recognized about an upcoming sequel for a few week now, however I wasn’t anticipating its demo to be launched so quickly.

As a part of Steam Subsequent Fest, ToastieLabs formally launched the demo model of Coloring Voxels, Coloring Pixels sequel, a number of hours earlier than the occasion started. Its first stage, merely titled “Volcano,” has you creating totally different components of a scene by coloring every bit in a single block at a time. It’s a color-by-numbers sport, requiring you to comply with every quantity, colour the corresponding space, after which repeat the method with the remainder. You begin on the underside layer and work your manner up earlier than you, eventually, have your accomplished set piece.

In a single half, you might need a small hen, whereas the following is a big volcano that takes you an hour to finish. On the finish of all of it, it varieties a cohesive picture that represents the extent’s theme.

And that, finally, is what makes Coloring Pixels so pleasurable to me. I begin with a clean canvas, and with every numbered colour chosen, I colour within the sections, watching the picture unfold earlier than me. Whereas positive, its identify provides away what it’s, seeing its accomplished type proper in entrance of you is satisfying in its personal manner.

Primarily based on Coloring Voxels’ demo, I already know I’ll really feel the identical manner about this. It’s not excellent; it eats up fairly a little bit of my PC’s efficiency and has a moderately inflexible digicam in its present state. However with some polish, it’s a shoo-in to land a minimum of a number of hundred hours from me if ToastieLabs continues an analogous stage launch pattern that Coloring Pixels and one other favourite of mine, WooLoop, have.

Coloring Voxels will formally launch on Aug. 15. I don’t learn about you, however I already realize it’ll stand alongside its predecessor as considered one of my high leisure video games.