Sloppy Forgeries Assist Tools: Pins and Grids Explained

Assist tools in Sloppy Forgeries are time-limited tools that help you spot differences between your painting and the masterpiece you are copying, with pins and grids given as the examples. The description comes straight from the developer's feature list on the official Steam page, which lists Assist Tools as one of the core painting features alongside real-time feedback and keyboard shortcuts.

What that means in play

Sloppy Forgeries scores you pixel-by-pixel in real time, and it deliberately strips away the safety nets you would expect from a drawing app: no undo, no fill, only 4-6 colors and three brush sizes. Against that backdrop, assist tools are the one category of help the game does give you. Because they are time-limited, they are meant as short bursts of awareness rather than a permanent overlay — you use them to catch a difference you are missing, not to paint with them switched on the whole round.

Pins and grids are the two examples the developer names. A grid-style tool suggests checking alignment and proportions — where elements of the painting sit relative to the whole canvas — while a pin-style tool suggests marking a specific spot you keep getting wrong so you can find it again. That reading of how each example is best used is our interpretation of the naming; the official material does not describe each tool's exact on-screen behavior.

When to use them

The material gives no activation button, duration, or score penalty for assist tools, and the game has no user reviews yet, so no first-hand player accounts exist either. What the official list implies about timing:

• They help you "spot differences," so they matter most when the accuracy bar stalls and you cannot see what is off in your forgery.
• Since they are time-limited, treat them as a resource to spend when you are stuck, not automatically every round.
• The free demo (demo update v.0.8.0, November 4, 2026) is the current way to test the tools yourself before the full release on November 13, 2026.

If you are new to the game's scoring loop, our upcoming pages on high score tips and single player progression will cover how tool use interacts with accuracy once the game launches and players have hands-on time with it.

Check note

This page was checked on 2026-11-09 against the official Steam store page and the developer's own site (playfulsystems.com/sloppy-forgeries/), which both describe assist tools in the same one-line way. The exact activation controls, tool durations, and any score cost remain unconfirmed, since no player has reviewed the game yet and no announcement details them.