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Colortone

PC (Microsoft Windows), Linux, Mac • 2015

Should you play it?

Your way to freedom only involves your intelligence and the puzzles!

What works

  • Unique color-based puzzle mechanics
  • Relaxing atmosphere and music
  • Encourages experimentation
  • Simple and elegant design
  • Developer responsiveness to bugs

Things to keep in mind

  • Very short with only 14 levels
  • Frustrating platforming controls
  • Bugs causing softlocks and item loss
  • Lack of restart level option
  • Minimal content and no story

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • ReThink

  • NABOKI

  • Hexologic

  • klocki

  • Scalak

  • Orakyubu

More continuation-driven

Games that feels like Colortone but with an even stronger pull to keep playing

  • Lingo 2

  • Lingo

  • Patrick's Parabox

  • English Country Tune

  • RUSH

  • Click To Continue

More fantastical

Games that feels like Colortone but with more imaginative fiction

  • Antichamber

  • NaissanceE

  • Manifold Garden

  • Agent A: A puzzle in disguise

  • Discolored

  • Etherborn

More story-driven

Games that feels like Colortone but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Thomas Was Alone

  • The Looker

  • Journey of a Roach

  • THE CORRIDOR

  • Lightmatter

  • Gravitas

Choose your own criteria ->

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Colortone: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Exploration, Creativity, Story, Expression. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Creativity, Experimenting. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026