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Different Strokes
A collaborative online painting game where players can create, edit, and rate each other's art!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Remember oekaki boards? This is them now. I adore this game. It's an amazing safe haven from AI slop, art thievery, and artist's block. I HIGHLY recommend the Deluxe version (under $2 on sale!) if you enjoy digital doodling. This game is a blast.”
— a player, Steam review · 92 hrs played“-Free (DLC is cheap too) -Let's me draw puppies -Random people draw themselves petting the puppies I drew Best art game on steam!”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“been playing this game on itch.io for a couple years now, excited to discover it's on steam too!!!!”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
8 New Languages and Steam Workshop Support!
Thanks to help from the community, the game now supports the following languages: Japanese Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese German Spanish - Spain Spanish - Latin America Brazilian Portuguese Fi
Updated to new Unity version that fixes major security vulnerability.
Updated to latest Unity version that fixes this issue: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/unity-has-found-a-security-vulnerability-that-has-sat-dormant-for-almost-a-decade-take-immediate-action-to-prote
Free Demo of the game I've been working on for the last 8 years available now!
Since long before we created Different Strokes I have been working on a large story-heavy action RPG called Kingdom of Night with another team. We significantly underestimated just how long it would t
Many Small Updates
We've made lots of little changes to the game over the last year. Here's a summary: - On mobile web/Android there's a "keyboard controls" button that lets you use certain features that previously only
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Relaxing · Hand-drawn · Cute · Exploration · Design & Illustration · Cartoon · 3D · Immersive Sim · Life Sim · First-Person · Anime · Asynchronous Multiplayer (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German, Spanish - Spain, Finnish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Czech, French, Italian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian, Indo… |
| Achievements | 13 |
| Official site | https://www.differentstrokes.xyz/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5-3570 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 740 DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 125 MB available space