Category: ID@Xbox

Chromagun 2: Dye Hard Splashes onto Xbox Featuring a Robust Accessibility Mode

Harrison Floyd-Marketing Manager PM Studios

Summary

Available now for Xbox Series X|S.
Robust accessibility system for those who are colorblind.
Wield your Chromagun across dimensions and parallel universes, each with unique physics, style and tone.

Color isn’t a barrier. While ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard is built on the language of color, it refuses to let color become a barrier. A unique symbol overlay system designed for color blind players earned ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard a Horizon Award for Technical Innovation at GG Bavaria 2025. It is a colorblind accessibility system that reimagines how players read and combine hues. Instead of relying solely on visual color differences, every color is paired with a distinct symbol: clean, intuitive shapes that overlay directly onto surfaces, objects, and even blended colors. When players mix hues, those symbols merge and stack in real time, creating a clear visual shorthand for every combination.

The result is a puzzle language that stays readable no matter how the player may see the world. Whether the player is navigating a monochrome chamber or juggling multiple color interactions at once, the symbol system ensures that every solution remains just as clever, challenging, and satisfying. With the goal that every player can experience the game on equal footing.

ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard features include:

A One-Of-A-Kind Tool – The ChromaGun: Wield the titular “ChromaGun,” a versatile paint-gun used to shoot primary colors onto surfaces and objects, mixing them to manipulate the environment and outsmart puzzles. Mastering the color wheel is essentially to success. Mix and fire primary colors to bend environments to your will! Rewiring doors, redirecting drones, and unraveling puzzles that twist in increasingly clever ways. Every puzzle hinges on how well you can mix, match, and manipulate hues under pressure. Fire blue at a red block and watch it shift instantly into a purple, opening new paths or triggering mechanisms you couldn’t reach before. The deeper the game gets, the more the game asks you to think and juggle multiple color combinations on the fly. With deeper color physics, sharper puzzle logic, and environments that react in surprising layers, the sequel delivers its most ambitious, brain‑stretching 3D challenges yet.

Magnetoid Chromatism: Master the proprietary core mechanic of Magnetoid Chromatism, a system where color isn’t just visual, it’s magnetic logic that governs how the entire world behaves. WorkerDroids, platforms, switches, and even environmental hazards react to color‑charged polarity, pulling toward or repelling away from whatever hue is applied. A single color can shift the flow of a room. ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard reimagines puzzle realities with ever-changing rules and visual styles, from comic-book labs to sci-fi facilities, keeping each challenge inventive and unpredictable. You interact with WorkerDroids, beams, tools and switches in flexible systems.

Multiverse Puzzles: Set in the dangerously pristine world of ChromaTech Industries, the game’s stylized presentation and humor blend clever problem-solving with off-beat charm. Travel through time and space across five different dimensions and parallel universes, each with new physics, visual style and narrative tone. Inside the comic‑book dimension, every action explodes with over‑the‑top flair. Each shot from the ChromaGun triggers a burst of hand‑drawn onomatopoeia – Wham!, Boom!, Pow! – that pop in like a comic book. Then there’s the chicken universe, an entirely different flavor of chaos. Poultry-based problem solving. Here, puzzles revolve around a flock of hyper‑aggressive, feather‑ruffling chickens who charge the player on sight. Instead of traditional switches or drones, progress depends on coloring these furious birds mid‑attack, using their reactions and movement to trigger mechanisms, open paths, and of course solve puzzles.

The vibrant multiverse awaits. Chromagun 2: Dye Hard is available right now.

ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard

PM-Studios, Inc.

☆☆☆☆☆

★★★★★

$19.99 $17.99

Get it now

Welcome to ChromaTec, the universe’s leading producer of the ChromaGun (patent pending)! Here at ChromaTec, colors are magnets! Well, not exactly. Magnetoid Chromatism—a physical property of the pandimensional realm—is a bit more complex than that. In layperson’s terms: Walls attract objects of the same color. All kinds of objects! Like large boxes. Or small boxes. Or medium boxes! Or super-safe, friendly, decidedly non-murderous WorkerDroids*. (List not exhaustive) Use your refined painting and color-mixing skills to voluntarily solve intricate puzzles on the ChromaTec Testing Track for ChromaGun Research Purposes, Mark II — aka ChromaGun 2. Please note the following are not valid reasons for non-participation: – Not having participated in the Testing Track Mark I (aka ChromaGun 1; no prior knowledge necessary) – Color-blindness (A color-blind accessibility mode is available at no extra charge) – Fear of birds** – Fear of magnets (They’re colors, not magnets) – Fear of being involuntarily forced to perform tests on an experimental color-based firearm (this will never happen) ChromaTec would like to remind you of the following important disclaimer: Not solving tests as instructed is not advised. Breaking the ChromaGun is not advised. Activating a portal to a parallALTERNATEel uniREALITYverse is not ADVISEDadvised… ChromaLABS would like to remind you of the following disclaimer: ChromaLabs is the universe’s foremost—and only—manufacturer of the patented ChromaGun. Our world-class engineers are all [redacted] free [redacted] and [redacted] motivated [redacted] to [redacted] ensure that our testing grounds meet the following criteria: – Unbreakable tests: No constant restarting of test chambers necessary – Removable paint: Painting and mixing is fine, but undoing it is even better – Advanced puzzles: Physics challengPUZZLes, clever paintPAINT mechanics, and even [redACTED] oh TWO i [REDacted] UNIVERSES have a CANNOT EXIST bad IN feeling THE SAME about REALITY this. We hope you enjoy your brief, pleasant, VOLUNTARY participation in the ChromaLabs CHROMATEC Testing TRACK. * WorkerDroids may be less non-murderous than implied. ** Except chickens

The post Chromagun 2: Dye Hard Splashes onto Xbox Featuring a Robust Accessibility Mode appeared first on Xbox Wire.

source https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/02/12/chromagun-2-dye-hard-splashes-onto-xbox/