de Blob

de Blob is a 3D platformer in which you control its hero, a creature who is part paint blob, part struggling artist, part revolutionary, and part juvenile delinquent. The I.N.K.T. Corporation has declared color a crime and bled Chroma City and its Raydian inhabitants down to a drab, lifeless gray, and only de Blob can change that.

You collect paint and hurl de Blob at buildings, walls, statues, roads, and the sky, adding color wherever he lands. Each splatter drains his supply and dries him out, so you must keep finding paint and rehydrating at pools and hydrants. He starts limited to red, blue, and yellow, but blending them creates many more, which matters as missions from the Color Revolutionaries pile up.

You flip, bounce, and smash past tank battalions, I.N.K.T. racers, and elite Inky soldiers while dodging hot plates, electric shocks, and ink turrets on the way to Comrade Black's fortress. The city can be remixed with custom paints, patterns, and soundtracks, and four-player split-screen multiplayer offers eight modes, among them Paint Match, Blob on the Run, and Blob Race. This Steam edition adds sharper textures, upscaled videos, FXAA anti-aliasing, and remappable controls.