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Dark Color: Paint by Number

Eerie & Moody Art Coloring

Ratings

Age

13+

Category

Puzzle

Languages

English

Dark Color: Paint by Number offers a unique twist on color-by-number with gothic, horror, and spooky illustrations. Tap to fill numbered areas, use auto-fill and zoom tools, and participate in daily challenges and weekly new art drops. The app is designed for players who enjoy detailed horror-themed coloring and community sharing. It provides a relaxing yet atmospheric creative outlet for fans of dark aesthetics.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

75/100

Dark Color: Paint by Number is a refreshing departure from the usual floral and landscape-heavy coloring apps. It leans heavily into gothic, horror, and dark fantasy themes, offering illustrations of everything from eerie haunted houses to macabre portraits. For fans of the spooky season year-round, the art style is a major draw. The actual coloring process is smooth, with a responsive tap-to-fill mechanic and helpful tools like auto-fill and zoom that make even the most detailed pieces manageable.

The app keeps things fresh with weekly content drops and daily challenges, ensuring there's always something new to color. While the core gameplay is identical to other paint-by-number apps, the community features and the specific niche of dark art give it a unique personality. It’s a great way to unwind and embrace your dark side without the mess of real paint. The frequency of ads can be a bit distracting, but the quality of the artwork makes it a worthwhile download for horror enthusiasts.

Dinsun reviewed on: Tue Nov 19 2024

Features

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Exclusive horror and gothic art

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Weekly new art drops

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Helpful auto-fill and zoom tools

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Daily coloring challenges

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Community sharing features

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

Yes, new horror-themed illustrations are added every week.

Ratings & Reviews

Great game, stopped playing immediately after seeing the amount of ads
Tue Dec 17 2024 dugehckwnfjf

I like color games. Simple enough. I’m also a big fan of the funny pictures you can color on this app. While I was coloring a picture of Pikachu and stitch getting cross faded together (hilarious picture and I love it), I was BOMBARDED with ads. You can’t go coloring a few number nodes (ex; colors 1-6) without getting an ad. An excuse from developers from many games with the same issue is “we have to have them to make a profit” well you can’t make a profit with those ads if there are too many to even play the game, scaring away me and others just like me who want to relax and color without an ad in my face every three seconds. Don’t get me wrong, ads are completely ok. You need to make money somehow. But there are just TOO MANY. Look at a similar game called happy color. They do it where there is an ad before and after a drawing, or an ad if you want a hint. That’s perfectly ok. It lets me actually color without being interrupted midway through. I can’t do that with this game, which I really wish I could because the pictures are just my type of style. But at the very end it’s a great game, I just can’t play it with the amount of ads. Also, VIP pictures also make sense. You want better pictures, you need to pay for them. That’s fine. The ads are the main issue. Please do better with the ad management. I would love to actually enjoy this game without being interrupted midway through A picture. Much love to the developers ❤️❤️❤️

Fun coloring but too many ads
Fri Nov 03 2023 C.B.79

I really enjoy using this app other than the frequent ad interruption which is the reason I cannot give it 5 stars. I like that it’s not your typical cutesy children’s pictures, but pictures geared towards adults with darker subject matter. The ad interruptions really take away from enjoying the coloring. It seems like they pop up rather often and are not short ads. Choose a picture to color, watch an ad, color a few numbers in picture, watch an ad, want more hints, watch an ad, almost done with picture, one more ad. Close out completed picture, watch an ad. Set phone down to do something else and come back to app, watch an ad. There has to be a better way to have this app be free and not have so many ads. I looked into removing ads by going premium, that was too expensive to me. I have other free coloring apps downloaded that look very similar, but nowhere near the amount of ads as this one.

Reasons for recommendation and some suggestions for the game
Thu Nov 28 2024 BooChanW

Reasons for giving five stars: 1. This one is indeed more comfortable and stress-relieving compared to several other similar ones on the market. When coloring, it is painted area by area, and the visual perception and experience are quite good. 2. The game interface is very interesting, with some cute little icons, which is the kind of feeling that I like. 3. There are a great variety of picture types inside, and you can find all kinds of pictures that I like. The lines in the pictures look very comfortable. Suggestions: 1. The advertisements appear too frequently. I understand that a large portion of the revenue of a small game comes from advertising. However, as a game, the most important thing first should be that players have a good gaming experience. In this game, the advertisements pop up too often, and you even have to watch them through before you can close them. This forces me to either force quit and restart the game or play it after disconnecting the network. 2.Every time when I'm almost done with the background step, I can't wait. When there are too many areas that still need to be colored, I will become a bit impatient. I hope that when painting the background color, it can be colored in large chunks directly. In this way, it will feel more stress-relieving when playing.

Love the pictures of Horror characters
Sun Jul 30 2023 gramsx07

First I want to say I love the way you change characters into horror characters. Timon and Pumba, Mickey Mouse, Ronald McDonald, Mario and Luigi, just to say a few absolutely LOVE this art work it’s the main reason I have your app. So why will my app not delete pictures from my collection tab when I remove them. I spent 30 minutes deleting about 100 pictures from my collection only to find them all right back in there when I returned to app after completely closing out of the app after deleting was done. I have tried to delete the pictures many times but every time I return to app there they are again. It doesn’t let me save the new pictures I want to not miss out on but continues to keep pictures I try to delete that are over six months old. Please help me to delete the ones I don’t want anymore. Also claps to you for having ethnic and sexual orientation tabs but you are over doing it, I sure don’t see a white beauty tab or straight pride tab. In the couples tab there is only 5% of pictures for white straight people. We call that racism against the white straight people. I don’t see an Asian tab or Hispanic tab so why a black tab? Why not give all races and sexual orientation the same amount of pictures, no race or sexual orientation is better than the other and should not be displayed like one is.

Ridiculous Adds
Sun Jun 18 2023 jchavez1972

This app has some of the coolest and colorful pictures. However there is one reason and one reason only that i am going to have to delete this app. The amount of adds in this app is absolutely ridiculous!! You can’t even enjoy your coloring experience without a ton of adds interrupting you. I counted and during one coloring there were 5. 30 second adds that popped up. Maybe you should do like all the other coloring apps do and run your adds before and after the coloring, and maybe run one during to gain the hint if needed. And if we need a hint before offered to us run the add then as well. The amount during our coloring experience is ridiculous. Sad because I will be deleting because of this, and I really enjoy the app and the pictures and colors, but can’t enjoy because of that. It’s more stressful than relaxing like it’s supposed to be. And I’m sure a lot of other users would probably agree, and you’ve probably lost a lot because of this. I have a lot of different coloring apps that are awesome and don’t experience this amount off adds. Maybe you reconsider how you run your adds. I understand they have to be ran but you could run them differently. I would have given a rating of 5 stars but unfortunately I can’t. Please change your setup and I will definitely be back! Happy coloring people, there’s a lot of other coloring apps out there just as good with less adds.

Ads are ridiculous
Mon Apr 10 2023 Chargerrun86

Cool pictures, different from any other apps but it’s slow to respond and the ads are absolutely ridiculous. Every time you get through 2-4 color’s there’s an ad, any other coloring game let’s you get through an entire picture before an ad. I already deleted and will not use until ads are reduced! And of course then you get the auto response they send to everyone: Dear user, thank you for your feedback. We are very sorry to hear that. But please give us a chance to explain. We understand how you feel right now, but we have to let you know that we invested a lot of money in technology development, graphic design, application maintenance, and so on. We have to change our strategy in order to keep the app always available for our users. We hope you can understand! If you have better suggestions, please feel free to send us an email. Our progress cannot be achieved without the support of our users. Thank you again for your trust!💖 If you wanna make it better. Do before and after the pics. Not every 30 seconds. I guarantee you’re not the only coloring app that’s has spent “a lot of money” to develop. I still will not play until they are reduced

Rating a 5 to get people to see…..
Sat Aug 12 2023 Buchajes17

Like someone else, I am rating 5 stars ONLY in an attempt to get this seen. Let me start by saying that this app easily has the most free images to choose from that I’ve ever seen on one of these apps. There’s so many categories and a lot of really neat images to choose from. But the app has some issues... • The amount of ads is absolutely ridiculous. I know that those are important to a point but when you’re having to watch them every 20-30 seconds (NO exaggeration), it makes it hard to want to continue to play. Every time an ad pops up, it asks you if you’d like to make a purchase to go ad-free…and again, I get it but it’s excessive. • The colors you’re using on the color selector at the bottom do NOT match up to the color that the space will be on the picture. For example, I just finished a picture and the last color (#94) was lime green but when I selected the highlighted ‘94’ on the picture, it was white. To me, that makes it much less enjoyable. • The picture you see when you first load isn’t necessarily what the finished image will look like. For example, the one I just finished had a bunch of little spiders on it when I loaded it brand new to start coloring. As I colored, the spiders disappeared into the colors and you couldn’t even see them on the completed image. Again, that kinda takes away some of the enjoyment for me. That may just be personal preference. Overall, I’d probably give the app 2.5 ⭐️ because of the ridiculous number of ads. They really make it hard to want to use the app. Otherwise, it would easily get a 4.5 ⭐️ from me!

Ads should be before and after not during the coloring
Sat Apr 29 2023 Gamergirl_101

I know you need ads for money but the amount is ridiculous. All my other CBN apps have one before and after the picture, which is completely fine but not during and multiple times! It ruins the flow! I want to sit there and color and get into the zone, not get hit with ad after ad. At least change it to before the picture and after instead of so many while we’re trying to color the image, is it that hard? ———————————————————————— EDIT The developer response for any review mentioning ads is always the same copy and pasted spew. Do they even read the full review or just immediately paste the response? The first picture I ended up doing had the first 4 colors with only one spot to color so I got to tap four times before getting hit with an ad. FOUR taps! It’s honestly ridiculous. They don’t even truly read the reviews. I said they could change it to a better and more easier way that people wouldn’t complain much about and they just say “we need the money” Yeah I get that but the option I suggested still earns them money WHILE also keeping users happy and busy. Yet all they care about is the money and not if people are unhappy. Putting ads before and after would be a whole lot more normal and easy to deal with than 10+ while trying to RELAX and COLOR the picture. Not everyone has the necessary funds to spend just to remove your stupid amount of ads. Just make it a little less I’m not saying to completely remove them just lessen the amount for pete’s sake.

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