OMG, I love the levels, the IDEA and it GETS more Complex. A TOTAL MUST HAVE!

If you guys like puzzle games and if you were a big fan of Portal than you must have this game in your library.

ChromaGun is a nice little puzzle game, where you use magnet-like color to pull in magnet-like orbs into a certain area to progress. My copy was kindly sent to me by the developers (thanks for that by the way) because of my YouTube channel, and I would have made a video on it had I not lost the video file. Either way, I recommend you get ChromaGun if you liked Portal 2, but would rather have it with plain colors, and not cool dimension-ish wormholes.

Great game, that reminds me of Portal 1, i'm loving every puzzle and comedy bit on this game.

Gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKhkwkyGsLw

I finally finished the entire game, and did a full walkthrough/let's play of this game on my channel.
Plus, I've earned all the achievements.

Anyways, I wish to thank all of the people who made this game, and with that, come with my honest opinion, so people can find this helpful, and as well, tell the people at Pixel Maniacs what I think.

Despite I got this for free from the company, I don't believe that should effect my opinion.
The price should be lowered, since I can't see it being worth 13 Euros, when you can complete the entire game within a short period of time, around the 10 Euros would be more fitting.

I truly enjoyed the concept, the idea of a puzzle game, which involves colors, was something that I haven't tried before, and that was truly something different, than what I normally play.
However, the game did seem quite short, and it has it's few moments that can be tricky. The only hard times, are when you're forced to make a wild guess. I believe that the game could've easily be longer, and a lot more challenging.

I must say, that I enjoyed the narrator and his evil voice, giving you some kind of hints now and then, but you barely heard from him later on in the game.

What I pretty much asked for, is more gameplay, and a greater challenge as you progress.
With all this said, the game is not bad at all, it's worth playing, but it should be for a smaller price then, since it is as short, as it is.

Big applause to Pixel Maniacs for this nice game. =)

I definitely recommend this game, if you like puzzle type games especially you've got to add it to your collection, check out my first thoughts here to see my full review and see how I had a good time with the game! https://youtu.be/K4wiVm13DiI

I r9 8/8

I love puzzle games like this one, and Magrunner, and the Portals. I'm 70 yrs. old and I'm trying to keep my brain sharp. But when the game designers INCLUDE a NECESSITY for DEXTERITY in the game, it really ticks me off. I get really disappointed by the fact that I paid the same price as anyone else, or close to it, but I don't get to finish the game, because my fingers aren't as fast as my brain. This game does just that. I love the whole concept of mixing the colors to open the doors, and even getting the colors in the right orders. It's a cool concept and fun to play and solve the puzzles. BUT here I am running from a fire that my fingers just aren't fast enough to solve the puzzle. Although I know WHAT to do, I can't physically do it. Maybe I could if I did it over and over and over a million times, but I don't care to do that, that's why I bought a PUZZLE game. Maybe I should have waited a while to cool down before I wrote this. I recommend this game for anyone that loves puzzles, AND has the DEXTERITY to solve them!

Chromagun is billed as a first-person action puzzle game, although it starts off focusing mostly on the puzzle aspect and then picks up the pace later on. If you're after a thoughtful, no-pressure game then you'll struggle later on where speed is important.

It's inspired by Portal, with a similar look and narration, but the puzzle mechanic is totally different. Here, it's about painting walls and droids different colours with your paint gun. Droids get pulled towards any surface that's the same colour as them, so you use that fact to move them around the level and position them on pressure pads that open doors.

To add some action, some droids are deadly to the touch and will chase you around the level if there's no coloured surface to pull them in.

Some gameplay from chapter 2, post-tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKz5va-z3DM

The paint-mixing idea is a great basis for setting puzzles, but it feels like they could have done more than just using it to get droids to cling to walls. Particularly because (based on what I've played so far, 3/4 of the way through the game) this is a 3D game that never really uses the third dimension in your puzzle solving.

Like all decent puzzle games, the game intelligently drip-feeds in new elements and teaches you their use, either through direct explanation or letting you discover it for yourself. Chapter 1 is a tutorial with one colour in your gun, Chapter 2 gives you the full three-colour gun and teaches you the art of mixing, while chapter 3 adds killer floor tiles that destroy droids, sometimes to your advantage. Chapter 4 adds walls that remove your paint after a short time. And so on, up to Chapter 8.

But this is a game with a story, and Chapter 4 ends on an action-packed climax ready for an atmospheric Chapter 5. At this point you wonder if the game up to this point was one long tutorial! Beyond this, the puzzles require faster thinking, faster timing and all-round more speed to proceed.

A few puzzles are inelegantly designed, ones that makes you wonder if you found an unintended shortcut or whether the rooms needed a second draft.

For instance, level 4.5 was first one where I was stumped for a while - the solution turned out to be mentally putting together stuff I'd done before, but it also required getting a droid to pass a certain point at a certain time that was annoyingly fiddly - I had already figured things out but spent ages running in circles to get it just right. I couldn't work out if it was me or the game at fault.

But all the puzzles are contained enough to be manageable. It rarely puts a second difficult puzzle after a first within a level (which might mean if you die on the second you'd have to plod all the way through the first again).

So I've been enjoying this, with reservations. I found the early stuff a bit gentle and I rattled through a lot of the game before hitting the real challenge, but it always changed things up before becoming boring. I enjoy the moments of panic and quick-thinking, and solving a puzzle is satisfying. But some of the timing later on is too tight to be fun and gets frustrating. But never mouse-breakingly so!

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I nearly didn't buy ChromaGun because I read in another review that the difficulty spiked and the game went from gentle puzzling to demanding serious dexterity. I'm glad I chose to try it anyway. For context, let me explain that I am an average gamer in my late-forties with serious sight issues, and yet I completed the game in around 10 hours with 100% achievements. The puzzles ranged from easy to mildly challenging. The basic mechanic of manipulating droids by changing their colour, or the colour of their surroundings, is a neat one. The devs have borrowed Portal's premise of a guy (or gal) going through test chambers. Critics might say this is unoriginal and I suppose they have a point, but at least it's better than the cheesy 'contestant in a deadly game show' format utilised by several of the other games in this genre. It also means Chromagun's levels are bite-size - some of them take a few seconds to complete once you're figured the solution - so if you screw up it's no hardship to restart and try again. This makes it a good game to boot up whether you have ten minutes to kill or wish to spend a few hours gaming.

To sum up, ChromaGun isn't an ambitious game. The graphics and sound are solid and unpretentious, it's slick and bug-free, and there's a welcome side serving of humour in the voice over. Recommend. 8/10