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Games like Splasher

Splasher turned the paint gun into a platformer mechanic. Here is what it set up, and what you can look for next.

What Splasher is

Splasher is a 2D platformer made in Unity, released on 7 February 2017 on PC, then on consoles. Romain Claude, a former game and level designer on Rayman Origins and Legends, worked on its game and level design. Everything happens in the Inkorp factory.

Its idea: a paint gun whose colours change what you can do with a surface. The rules stay readable, and each level becomes a painting puzzle.

What Couleur takes from it

Couleur borrows the feel, not the game: a cartoon platformer with inked outlines, where the dye is the central mechanic.

• Three dyes, each with its own effect: water, madder, saffron.
• Ink that never runs out: the level, not the ink, decides where the dye holds.
• Checkpoints, so a fall does not send you back to the start.

No image or level from Splasher is reused. The characters, logos and sets are Couleur’s own.

Where to play Couleur

In the browser, on a computer and on an iPhone in landscape. See the getting-started guide.