CONSTANCE REVIEW

I was given a PS5 code from PR Company Plan Of Attack @planofattackbiz Publisher Byte Rockers @ByteRockers Developer Blue Backpack @_blue_backpack

This is released in the UK on the 1/5/2026 and in the UK is priced at £15.99.

INTRODUCTION

Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.

FEATURES

Become Paint
Utilize paint-based mechanics to experience a constant state of flow—dive into the ground and walls, slice through the air and enemies!
Wield Your Brush
Become stronger by unlocking new techniques with your brush that aid you in defeating threatening foes, overcoming platform challenges, solving complex puzzles, and advancing your progress.
Discover Yourself
Explore Constance’s non-linear interconnected world and discover countless secrets, abilities, upgrades, characters, side quests, and inspiring moments.
Strive for Balance
Using your brush techniques will corrupt your Paint. If you become fully corrupted, negative effects await you, so be wary!
Get Inspired
Use inspirations that you find on your travels to sketch in your journal. Your sketches enhance and customize Constance’s capabilities. By gathering materials, you can upgrade your sketches into even stronger artworks.
Choice in Death
Upon death, choose how to continue your journey. Do you want to persevere through the challenge, at a price? Or do you return to a safe point and explore other unbeaten paths?
Rich Imagined World
The inner world is strongly connected to Constance’s mental health journey, with each colorful biome and its unique set of enemies and characters representing different aspects of her psyche and personal history.
Interactive Backstory
Experience playable flashbacks about personal struggle, creativity, work-life-balance, and inner purpose. Step into Constance’s socks to uncover her past!

FAN ART

Story is fun and interesting.

Art style is nice and detailed love hand drawn look very cool.

Enemies are cool as all have own look and own attacks to learn to avoid and beat them.

Accessibility options are great as can adjust to suit all types of players.

World is huge and full of secrets and has own vibe to areas and feels alive and fun to explore.

Characters that you meet on your adventures all have own look and own personality to them.

Controls are easy to learn and pick up and controls are responsive which is great.

Combat is fast paced and hectic as can be alot of projectiles on screen at once to avoid or dodge.

Alot of content as so many secrets to find and much more to do.

Can be challenging as easy to die in boss fights and even when trying to solve puzzles.

OVERALL SUMMARY

Overall can be challenging as easy to die especially in fights or when exploring as in trying to solve puzzles. However for £15.99, the story is fun and the art style is nice and detailed with the enemies all have own look and own attacks to learn to avoid to beat them and the world is fun to explore as feels alive with all areas have own look and vibe to them and the characters you meet all have own look and own personality to them and the controls are easy to learn and responsive and the combat is fast paced and hectic with alot to dodge on screen and the accessibility options are great as suits all styles and so much more to do in the game. LOVED THE GAME.

I RECOMMEND THE GAME.

Story is fun and interesting.
Art style nice and detailed.
Enemies own look, attacks.
Accessibility options great suit all types.
World is huge, full of secrets, feels alive.
Characters meet own personality, look.
Controls easy learn, responsive.
Combat is fast, hectic alot to dodge.
Alot of content as so many secrets to find and much more.