Paint Strike — Play Free Online

Paint Strike swaps bullets for paintballs. It is a first-person shooter where two teams fight over a map, and every shot leaves a splat of colour on whatever it hits. The goal, as the catalogue describes it, is to hit the other team and cover the map in your own colour.

It is a lighter, brighter take on the genre than most of the shelf. If you came to 1v1.LOL for quick shooter rounds that start fast and end fast, this fits the same habit, with a paintball look in place of the usual grey military palette. It runs in the browser with nothing to install.

Because the game is a team shooter, a round comes down to positioning and aim more than raw speed. The paint on the walls also shows you where fighting has already happened.

How to play

Movement and aiming work like a standard PC shooter.

• WASD moves your character.
• Mouse aims.
• Left click fires.
• Right click aims down sights.

Click inside the game once it loads so it captures your mouse. If you need the cursor back, for example to reach the browser tabs, press Esc. Click the game again to resume aiming.

Tips

• Use right click for longer shots. Aiming down sights narrows your view and steadies the shot, so save it for targets at range and fire from the hip up close.
• Stay near cover when you reload or when nothing is in view. Standing in the open against a team is the quickest way to get splattered.
• If your mouse feels off, click into the game again. A lost mouse capture is the most common reason aiming stops working.
• Keyboard and mouse are strongly recommended. The controls assume both, so a touch screen is a poor way to aim.

Similar games on 1v1.LOL

If you like the shooter format, there are plenty of neighbours on the site. Bullet Force is the more realistic, weapon-heavy option, while Venge.io and Repuls.io are fast arena shooters with a different feel. Narrow One is a medieval castle-siege game built around bows, and 1v1.LOL is the headline build-and-shoot duel the site is named for.

Paint Strike suits short sessions and players who want a shooter that looks friendlier than the usual fare.