ChromaGun
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.7h 4h to 100%
- Value
- $3.51/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 658 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Welcome to ChromaTec’s test lab! You’re here to test our state-of-the-art military-grade color-technology: The ChromaGun (patent pending)! Use it to solve our meticulously designed test chambers by painting the walls and droids. Remember how to mix colors from pre-school? Then you qualify!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5550 w/ 1024 MB, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
67 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gravitas (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats DEPLOYMENT ($1.34, scores 51).
More about ChromaGun
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
81% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
This Game was fun. The Puzzle Gimmick where you move Things around by attaching them to the walls and combining different colors was interesting.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
played chromagun 1 to catch up on the chromalore becuase chromagun 2 looked cool, this game is kinda chromaannoying tho, needs more chromavoice lines as well.
I have positive things to say about ChromaGun, but they are outweighed by the negative. I am a huge fan of these test-chamber, Portal-like games; however, this game lacks the creativity and polish that I expect. ChromaGun is obviously inspired by games like Portal, but it lacks the wit and care those titles possess. Test chambers are not satisfying to solve, and at times, hazards are inserted that don't serve the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ChromaGun scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/408650/chromagunReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.