Sloppy Forgeries: copying the Mona Lisa with a mouse in three minutes, with no undo

Copy the Mona Lisa. With a mouse. In three minutes.

That is the challenge, and it is obviously impossible. You get four to six colours, three brush sizes (medium, big and way too big), no undo, no fill. And at the end, the game compares your painting with the original pixel by pixel and gives you a similarity percentage.

The result is always ridiculous, and that is exactly what makes it brilliant. The fifty paintings span art history, simplified into big flat areas to stay playable: the Mona Lisa, The Starry Night, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Flemish portraits. A bar goes up and down as you paint to tell you whether you are getting closer, and it rarely lies.

The real playground is multiplayer. Up to eight players online with a join code, or locally with two mice plugged into the same computer, head to head. Variants make it even more absurd: tiny brush, upside down, pointillism. And watching everyone's copies appear next to the original is one of the best laughs I have had in front of a screen this year.

Solo, the game lasts less: you improve, you learn to go for the essentials, but you see it all faster. Time-limited assist tools (pins, grids) and graphics tablet support help anyone who really wants to get better.

It is a party game, designed as one, and the best of the week in its category.

Post your worst forgery on the InsertCoins Discord. In this game, the worst copies are the best ones.