Play It Paints Me Online — All 3 Endings & Story Guide

Content Warning: The developer lists violence, death, body horror, chronic illness, grief, and dysfunctional relationships. The game also uses squelching and squishy sound effects — flagged specifically for players with misophonia.

It Paints Me is a short horror visual novel by ENDYSIS about an artist named Sam who wakes every night in his studio to paint, and cannot finish. It was made in a week for Scream Jam 2023, then rebuilt into a Complete Edition with hand-drawn art, an original score, and partial voice acting. At roughly 3,900 words with three endings, it holds a 4.8/5 from over 560 ratings on itch.io. You can play it online free here in your browser — it is one of the few games on this site with an official browser build.

Story: The Last Painting

Sam is trying to paint his final work. He is blocked, and he is in pain — the game is explicit that both are real, and that they feed each other. Each night he returns to the canvas. Each night something is missing, and the thing that is missing is not only inspiration.

The itch.io description calls it a story about art and about pain, and that is the honest pitch. This is not a monster-in-the-house horror game. It is about what a person will do to finish something, what it costs the people around him, and the point at which the painting stops being the subject of the story and becomes its instrument.

Characters

• Sam — The artist and protagonist. Voiced by Callum Sanders.
• Marie — Sam's partner, and the relationship the game is really about. Voiced by Shellah.
• Sam's Mother and Sam's Father — Voiced by Maria Corcobado and Ethan Grant. Their presence frames where Sam's relationship to pain and to work came from.

How the Game Works

• Short, choice-based visual novel. A single playthrough is brief; the branching is where the replay value lives.
• Three endings. Enough to see the full shape of the story across a couple of runs, without a route map to grind.
• Hand-drawn art, original music, and sound design all by ENDYSIS. The one-person authorship shows — the visual style, the score, and the writing are unusually of a piece.
• Partial voice acting, cast by Phebe Fabacher and mixed by Mark Mullens. The voiced lines are chosen for impact rather than coverage.

Reaching All Three Endings

ENDYSIS has not published a walkthrough, and with only three outcomes you do not need one. The endings turn on how Sam relates to the painting and to Marie — whether he pushes through, pulls back, or lets the work take precedence over everything else. Save at the decision points and play the same night three ways. The whole thing is short enough that this is an evening, not a project.

Play blind first. The game is built to land once, and the twenty minutes you spend not knowing where it is going are the best twenty minutes it has.

From Jam Entry to Complete Edition

The original version was built in one week for Scream Jam 2023. The Complete Edition (1.2) followed on April 4, 2024, and the game now sits at version 1.2.4 with a Steam release and a separately sold artbook. It has also inspired a fan game, Dream Within a Dream by robobarbie — a reasonable signal of how much the original stuck with people.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Can I play It Paints Me online free? Yes — the developer offers an official HTML5 build, so it runs in your browser on this page with no download. Windows, macOS, and Linux downloads are also available on itch.io, and the game is on Steam.
• Is it free? Yes, name-your-own-price on itch.io.
• How long is it? Around 3,900 words — roughly 20 to 30 minutes per run.
• How many endings? Three.
• Is it voice acted? Partially. Key lines are voiced by a cast of four.
• Is it finished? Yes. The Complete Edition released in April 2024.

Conclusion

It Paints Me is proof that a horror game does not need length to leave a mark. Three endings, four voices, one canvas, and a week's worth of jam development that turned into something people are still making fan games about. It is about art and about pain, and it does not pretend those are different things.

The studio is dark. The canvas is waiting. Sam picks up the brush.