Game Info
Chroma Jam
Chroma Jam
A colour-mixing logic jam. Slide and merge shades across the board until every cell resolves to a single clean hue — simple rules, genuinely twisty levels.
Chroma Jam is a colour puzzle about resolution rather than matching. Cells on the board carry mixed, muddied shades; moving a piece merges and separates tones, and the goal of a stage is to end with every cell showing one clean colour. The rule set is introduced over the first handful of levels and then quietly deepened.
What Makes It Work
- Legible colour states. You can always read which cell is pure and which is contaminated, so mistakes are obvious before they are fatal.
- Levels that teach one idea each. A new mechanic appears, gets a safe practice stage, then gets combined with the last.
- No hidden mechanics. Everything you need is visible on the board.
Approach
- Solve the corners first — they have the fewest entry routes and constrain everything else.
- Keep pure cells pure. Once a cell is the right colour, avoid passing mixed tone through it.
- If a stage fights back, count backwards from the finished state: which single move must have happened last?
🎮 How to Play
Basic Controls
- Swipe in any direction to slide all tiles on the board.
- When two tiles of the same colour collide they merge into a higher shade.
- Goal: create the target colour by chaining merges in the correct order.
- The board has limited free space — if it fills completely you lose the level.
- Undo lets you step back; Restart clears the board for a fresh attempt.
Strategy & Advanced Tips
- Keep your highest-value tiles in corners. Corner tiles are hardest to dislodge accidentally, so park your progress there.
- Plan the colour chain backwards. Work from the target colour and figure out which two shades merge into it, then which merge into those.
- Don't merge too eagerly. Sometimes keeping two same-colour tiles apart gives you more flexibility for future moves.
- Manage free space above everything. A board with 3+ empty cells offers recovery options; a full board is almost always fatal.
- Use the swipe direction strategically. Every swipe moves ALL tiles — so a single move can set up three merges if the layout is right.
Playing on Mobile vs Desktop
Swipe gestures work identically on touch and mouse-drag. Desktop players can also use arrow keys. The colour palette is designed to be distinguishable even on screens with slightly off colour calibration.
Common Mistakes
- Filling the board by spawning new tiles too aggressively without merging first.
- Merging two tiles when keeping them separate would have set up a triple merge next turn.
- Forgetting that every swipe moves all tiles — check what you are pushing toward the walls.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Chroma Jam free?
Yes, completely free in your browser.
How many levels?
Over 50 handcrafted levels with increasing board sizes and colour counts.
What is the goal?
Merge same-colour tiles to create progressively higher shades until you produce the target colour for that level.
Can I undo a mistake?
Yes — Undo is unlimited. Step back as many moves as needed.
Does it work on phones?
Yes, touch swiping is the primary control on mobile.
What if the board fills up?
You lose the level and can retry immediately. Plan merges to keep at least 2-3 cells free.
3 Comments
Level 12 is a small masterpiece of a puzzle. Solved it twice just to check it was not luck. It was not 🎨
Would love a shape marker option. Pure colour distinction gets rough for me after an hour or so.
Sliding tiles until the colours line up is a genuinely new twist on the format. Took me three levels to click with it.