Hand-drawn Metroidvania game Constance announced for PC

Play as a paintbrush-wielding artist trying to escape a decaying world.

Truberbrook developer bildundtonfabrik has announced Constance, a hand-drawn side-scrolling Metroidvania game about a paintbrush-wielding artist trying to escape a decaying world. It will be available for PC via Steam. A release date was not announced. A demo is available now.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About
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.
Key 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 more than six unique biomes, countless of secrets, multiple paths, characters, side quests and collectibles in Constance‘s non-linear interconnected inner-world!
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, for 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 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!