- 80/100
- Players6 ratings
- 74/100
- Critics5 reviews
Where to get it
2016 · Pixel Maniacs · Shooter · Puzzle
ChromaGun
ChromaGun is a first person puzzler about colors. The basic principle is as easy as applying it is complex: exit the chambers via the exit doors. Use the ChromaGun to colorize walls and WorkerDroids to progress in the chambers. WorkerDroids (the players' main cause of headaches in ChromaGun) are attracted to walls of the same color and can be used for a variety of tasks like opening doors, activating triggers or removing the danger of deadly electrified floor-tiles by mercilessly sacrificing them. ChromaGun encompasses eight chapters of mind-melting puzzles and witty background-narrative.
- Released
- 16 February 2016
- Platforms
- LinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation VRWindowsXbox OnemacOS
- Genres
- ShooterPuzzleAdventureIndieArcade
- Developers
- Pixel Maniacs
- Publishers
- Pixel Maniacs
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- First person
- Themes
- ActionScience fictionComedy
- Engine
- Unity
About
ChromaGun is a first-person shooter puzzle video game developed by Pixel Maniacs, an independent game studio from Germany.
A sequel, ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard, was released on February 12, 2026 for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
›Story
Get on your feet and test ChromaTec's state-of-the-art military-grade color-technology: The ChromaGun (patent pending)! Use it to solve the meticulously designed test chambers by painting the walls and droids. Remember how to mix colors from pre-school? Congratulations, you qualify!
Keywords
- action-adventure
- steam
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
ChromaGun is a puzzle game revolving around using colors. The player uses the ChromaGun, a paint-shooting weapon, to colorize walls and floating spherical robots, called Worker Droids. These Worker Droids are attracted to walls of the same color and will move towards them.
The player's objective is to solve puzzles by cleverly rearranging Worker Droids, changing their colors, and guiding them to door-opening triggers, switches or electrified tiles. The player can shoot paint in the primary colors red, blue and yellow using the ChromaGun. The primary colors can be mixed together on walls and Worker Droids to create the secondary colors green, purple and orange. Mixing more than two different colors will result in black, which Worker Droids are not attracted to.
Reception
On Metacritic, the Nintendo Switch version has a score of 69/100 based on 14 reviews, and the PlayStation 4 version has a score of 74/100 based on 10 reviews. indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- Paint & Panic Bundle
- Ported as
- ChromaGun VR
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