Counterfeit Gallery

You inherit an empty little gallery on a quiet city street. The rent is due. The walls are bare. You can paint. Counterfeit Gallery is a cosy, hand-painted gallery sim. Copy famous public-domain masterpieces yourself, stroke by stroke, with a finger or a stylus. Hang them on your walls and win over the people who wander in to look. It is not a race and nobody is out to catch you: a rough copy still brightens a wall, and a better one draws a bigger crowd. YOU ARE THE PAINTER • No drawing skill needed. You start with Malevich's Black Square. The first paintings are big simple shapes, and transfer paper, a proportional grid and more aids arrive early. • 57 real masterpieces to copy, from Malevich and Mondrian to The Starry Night, The Great Wave, Girl with a Pearl Earring and, eventually, the most recognisable smile in the world. • Real paint. Oil stays wet and blends. Watercolour glazes. Tempera behaves like tempera. Choose your brushes and mix every colour yourself from the pigment tubes you own. • Made for touch. Paint with a finger or a stylus, and use the eyedropper, undo, fill and shape tools. • Honest, detailed feedback. When you finish, an appraiser's report compares your canvas with the original for composition, colour, shape and detail. • A free sketchbook. Practise any masterpiece without pressure, or import your own reference photos for figure and master studies. Your pictures stay on your device. YOUR GALLERY COMES ALIVE • Visitors walk in off the street, look at your work, chat and leave reviews. Everyone has their own taste: the art student loves Kandinsky, the collector wants a Vermeer. • Some of them want to buy. Haggle: ask for more, pitch the painting, or bluff that you have another buyer. Push too hard and they walk. • Build it bigger in blueprint mode: rooms, walls, doors, windows, frames, easels, plinths, furniture and desks for your staff. Everything is charged the moment you place it, and you can undo. • A living neighbourhood: the Route 24 bus runs on a timetable, cars wait at the zebra crossing and the street lamps come on at dusk. A calm, generative soundtrack plays along. THE ART WORLD NOTICES A cast of characters drifts through your door: your sharp-tongued friend Ilona, the collector Márton Halász, who cares less about what a painting is than what it is worth, and a critic whose praise opens doors. Hang three works by one artist and you have an exhibition. GOOD TO KNOW • Play offline. No ads. • Landscape only, made for phones and tablets. • Moving from the itch.io version? Use Options > Saves > Export on the old version and Import here to bring your galleries over. • The paintings you copy are public-domain works, reproduced from Wikimedia Commons. • Design, painting simulation, scoring, 3D models and music are made by Code Scrambler Productions. Made by Code Scrambler Productions. Tell us what you think through Feedback in the pause menu.