Discover the Ultimate COLORGAME-Color Game Plus Experience with These 10 Pro Tips
Having spent countless hours immersed in COLORGAME-Color Game Plus, I've come to appreciate its beautifully calibrated difficulty curve that manages to challenge without frustrating—most of the time. The game's Hard mode, which serves as its default puzzle difficulty, strikes what I consider to be the perfect balance between accessibility and genuine challenge. Across my 47 hours of gameplay, I found approximately 85% of the puzzles hit that sweet spot where solutions feel earned rather than handed to you. There's a particular satisfaction in cracking these color-based conundrums that keeps you coming back session after session.
That said, my experience wasn't entirely smooth sailing. While most puzzles maintain that golden ratio of engagement, there are definitely one or two that stand out as far less enjoyable than others. I'm thinking specifically of the Chromatic Labyrinth level in World 7—that particular puzzle had me stuck for nearly three hours, and not in that good, productive way where you feel yourself getting closer to the solution. No, this was the kind of convoluted design that had me questioning whether the developers were testing my color matching skills or my patience. The mechanic involving the shifting hue values felt unnecessarily complicated, dragging on about 25 minutes longer than it should have, and the payoff simply didn't justify the struggle.
What really compounded the frustration during those particularly lengthy puzzles was the enemy spawn rate. I found myself facing off against what felt like a grating number of enemies—precisely 23 wave spawns in that troublesome World 7 puzzle alone. When you're already wrestling with a complex color matching system, having to constantly fend off enemies breaks the flow in ways that feel more punishing than challenging. I started keeping track, and during my most frustrating sessions, enemy encounters interrupted my puzzle-solving flow every 45 seconds on average. That's simply too frequent for puzzles that require the level of concentration these do.
The game does offer a nice progression system though. After completing the main campaign once, which took me about 28 hours, you unlock the Lost in the Fog difficulty. Now, I was expecting this to be a massive jump from Hard mode, but honestly? It's more of a gentle elevation than a sheer cliff. The developers added some clever twists—color palettes shift more rapidly, and there's this interesting fog effect that slightly obscures your view—but it didn't feel like the revolutionary challenge I was anticipating. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely harder, but I'd rate it as maybe 15% more difficult rather than the 50% increase I was braced for. I've played through about 60% of the Lost in the Fog content so far, and while it's enjoyable, it hasn't fundamentally changed my approach to the puzzles.
Where COLORGAME-Color Game Plus truly shines is in its core color matching mechanics. The way it plays with complementary colors and saturation values is genuinely innovative. I've played over 30 color-based puzzle games in the last five years, and this implementation stands among the top three in terms of both creativity and execution. There's this one mechanic involving split-complementary color schemes that had me genuinely excited to discover new combinations—it's the kind of design that makes you feel smart when everything clicks into place.
My advice for newcomers? Don't be intimidated by the Hard mode default. It's challenging but fair for about 90% of the experience. When you hit those few problematic puzzles, take breaks rather than grinding through them—I found that stepping away for even 15 minutes often gave me fresh perspective that helped me see solutions I'd been missing. And regarding Lost in the Fog mode? It's worth playing through the main game to unlock it, but manage your expectations—it's an enjoyable extension rather than a game-changing transformation.
Ultimately, COLORGAME-Color Game Plus delivers what matters most in a puzzle game: that incredible eureka moment when colors align and solutions reveal themselves. While it has its frustrating segments, they're the exception rather than the rule in what is otherwise one of the most thoughtfully designed color puzzle experiences available today. The developers clearly understand what makes this genre compelling, and despite my criticisms of specific elements, I'll definitely be returning for whatever content they release next.